For health reasons, I will hardly ever be able to visit the States again. But videos like this one bring me back again through this very diverse, beautiful country. Thank you, Sir, for taking us on this great journey. And for those who do not see any sense in such videos: these films can bring comfort, heal souls. Thanks for the great work. May God bless you and protect and guard you on your journeys! Greetz from Hannover, Germany
My pleasure. It would've been easier to read the signs if I recorded this in UHD. The Garmin Virb Ultra 30 records in UHD, but I had to set it to 1080p/30fps in order to keep the video files from becoming too massive. As it was, this video was nearly 100GB in size and took most of the day to upload and process, and editing this file filled up my 2TB hard drive midway through the process. TH-cam has a 128GB file size limit, so if I wanted to use UHD for long road trips, I'd have to break the trip down in many parts.
Heyy. My dream has always been driving through the US by car, but I think I will never have a chance to do it really. But you have given me a chance to experience this online :) Thanks! Greetings from Finland.
Greetings from the Washington, DC area. I said the same thing even last year, and I want to do a European road trip at some point - I'm not sure how to do it, but I will make it happen.
@@unclecoolie Hi, in Germany there´s no speed limit on motorways (Autobahn) , but careful, very dangerous, only on sundays and public holidays you can drive as fast as you can. :) other days too much traffic. sincerely, Robert. ;)
Something about it is so satisfying. I think it’s the mix of excitement and boredom. He’s doing exactly what we all want to do, he’s driving across the entire U.S. And he isn’t overstimulating us either with lots of annoying music or anything, it’s just the quiet sound of the cars and the road.
I like this version much better. It is kind of like reading a book and taking time to comprehend what is going on. I will do my best to watch all of your road trip videos regarding your trip from DC to Seattle. I always love to watch travel videos!
Saw your 4x video and I thought how nice it would be to have it with real time and sound, thanks a lot for this effort mate, your country is beautiful and astonishingly big :D
Thank you. I'm glad that you like it. I uploaded the real time video of this entire trip after I got numerous requests for real time of my California-to-New York video, which unfortunately, I didn't record.
Can't believe it, this is so great for me! Thanx again :)I'm from Germany and it's impossible for me -- ATM ;) -- to make such adventure trips.Please keep it up!
Thanks a lot! I really appreciate it. I love the scenery of Norway; some of my all-time favorite videos are of the 10-hour long train rides in Norway. I will try to do similar train videos here in the U.S. at some point.
I was an OTR truck driver and was never able to appreciate driving across the country like I did because I'm having to worry about so many things that pertain to job. So thanks so much I can enjoy the trip through your video 😁😁😁
I love this. It saves me thousands of dollars on another US trip. Watching hours and hours of absolutely nothing through a car windows and eating fat burgers is all that you can do. Now, I only need to order a burger.
Un road trip et une vidéo dont beaucoup rêvaient certainement. Vous avez réalisé ce voyage de façon magistrale! J'ai 75 ans et décidé de vous accompagner pour la totalité de cette traversée en ...vélo d’appartement, accompagné par une playlist que j'avais intitulé "Route 66" et qui colle parfaitement aux grandes étendue que vous nous faites découvrir. Encore merci pour le plaisir de cette rencontre... Saintes, France ...
Wow watching you drive thru Louisville brought back a lot of memories of my hometown. I lived right off the 64, a lot of things looked the same and a lot didn't. Thanks for posting.
first of all sorry for my english i'm living in madagascar i dont know how to say but i love these road trip videos i put my headphones i take my reader and i feel i'm in this car very very good job unclecoolie
No worries on grammar. My wife is from Kenya, which is why I have a video of a train ride between Nairobi and Mombasa uploaded. I appreciate the support!
Hi, this is the first of your driving videos I have seen, having just found your channel. I keep dipping in and out as I get chance to watch. I will be watching your other uploads too. Hello from England, take care and stay safe. Norm. 😀
This was amazing! It took several sittings to make it through the whole day but it was well worth it. Very professionally presented. I enjoyed the displays of time, elevation, the red dot on the map marking your progress, the notation of what roads you were on. You could not have done a better job. Are you the first TH-cam provider that has posted this long of an unedited trip by car? I've seen edited videos but nothing like this. Thank you so much! I really look forward to the days you post after this one!!
Thank you very much! I really appreciate it! I have day 2 - Wildwood, MO to Aurora, CO - uploaded already, and I'm about to upload day 3, which is Aurora, CO to Caldwell, ID.
FWIW, I did a cross country trip in 2016 that I published in early 2017, 18 months before this. There may be others: th-cam.com/video/Q2vw2pirxkE/w-d-xo.html I agree that this a top quality job. If you don't mind my asking, what hardware/software do you use?
Thanks! I will be doing the other 3 days of this trip in the next few weeks. Then I will start working on my 2nd trip that will also have both time-lapse and real-time.
Hi, Uncle Coolie! Today I'm watching the first day , from Washington DC to Wildwood. It's 13:50 in France.I'll go to bed 13 hours later. That's what it's called slow TV, and I really enjoy: I feel OK watching it , though outside in France, it's 18° C, and I 'd better go have a walk along the seaside. You just gave me to do as well, and plan a coast to coast journey...a fortnight would be OK, it would be frustrating for me to do it within four days.Tank you for your perfect videos, rallye👍😊
Thank you very much. I was relatively close to you: I was in Germany the last two weeks and just got home only last night. (I live in the Washington, DC area.) 18° isn't bad. It's only about 3° at my house at the moment. 😊 I have many more videos to come in the next several months.
If you continue watching all four videos, you'll notice that the topography gets pretty flat by the time I drive through Illinois and stays pretty flat until Denver, Colorado, although there are some nice rolling hills in Missouri and eastern Kansas. Driving into Denver, you can see the eastern precipice of the Rockies, which is nice. While I was in Germany, I got a chance to drive down to see the northern precipice of the Alps, which was gorgeous! I actually have video of that drive that I'll upload at some point.
Thanks Uncle Coolie, l noticed it , specially across Missouri and Kansas! To tell the truth, it's a way long, but I really enjoy the skyline, when watching some parts of your 2° step along.This huge horizon is so strange. I could not drive along your first day all, because guests came home...and I suppose they would not understand I can stick to a virtual coast to coast trip on my computer! So I stopped in Shenandoah county, which looks a little like my birthplace! But I currently live and work on the Atlantic French coast ( just a paradise , always mild weather), near La Rochelle (not New Rochelle, New Jersey!). Anyway, if you drive in France, specifically between Bordeaux and Nantes, so I would be glad you are my guest, you are welcome , don't say it is just words, I mean it! Thank you for all your perfect videos!
It really needs to be widened to 3 lanes each direction, because it's always full of trucks sitting in the left lane going 0.01 MPH faster than the trucks in the right lane.
Omg this is amazing. I was watching so many videos from trains ( drivers view) and TH-cam recommended it to me. Such videos are soooo fascinating! Thank you and greetings from Greece
As a child, I remember riding along I-64 west to get to extended family in Lexington. Now, I'm planning on driving US 60 the whole way from Huntington to Lexington, or maybe US 52 west from Portsmouth to US 68. Thanks for inspiring me to take the backroads! I'm actually surprised you haven't gone along the Ohio River Scenic Byway yet (as far as I'm aware). It's a great trip, although I've only driven maybe a quarter of the route myself.
Awesome! I did a NY-CA drive in 2022 and I mostly avoided interstate highways for that trip. I took US-50 all the way from Bridgeport, WV to Garden City, KS, and that passed along the Ohio River through Cincinnati, which was very nice. I recommend that drive if you're undecided.
I love your video's!!! I've watched your timelapse video from Santa Monica to New York, and from Nebraska to California, which i like most because of all those National Parks you drove through!! I've just started with your Washington, DC to Seattle, WA timelapse video. I really like the way you've edited your timelapse video's with information like names of cities and states, road/street/US/I names, etc. I hope that you'll make a timelapse of Florida, especially that long way to Key West! :-) As I'm from The Netherlands which is way more flat than the Great Plains I'm looking forward to more timelapse video's of your beautiful country!!
Thank you very much! I really appreciate it! I am planning a trip to Key West later this summer, but I have several videos of my next trip after the DC-Seattle trip that I still have to upload before I get to the Key West trip. I will start editing video of that trip after I upload the 4th and final day of my drive to Seattle in real-time. Hopefully, I'll have all of these, including Key West, done in the next couple of months.
I miss Illinois, I grew up there, plus most of my family is there,,but I can’t go back bc of how much drama is going on in Chicago recently. This helps me feel at home again😭
I must say sir, you are amazing for uploading this, especially traveling from Coast to Coast. I wouldn't be able to do half of that without taking a day off LOL. Keep it up! You earned a subscriber.
Thank you! Initially, I hadn't considered uploading a long road trip in real-time, but I got so many requests for real-time video that I decided to finally start doing so. I will upload all 4 days of this trip in real-time, as well as the next trip that I did after this one - that will be both time-lapse and real-time as well.
Am i the only one that turned up the video really loud, then my music playlist on really low as to sound like you are in the car with low volume music because family is sleeping in the car. (I love this because it reminds me of the roadtrips my wife and i take, lol like not in a bad way but she sleeps and i drive and it just feels nice having her next to me and i still have some music playing as we travel to our vacation spot..... okay, ive typed too much. bye)
(0:15) Begin: Washington, DC (0:22) Pennsylvania Ave NW, eastbound (2:07) Enter 17th St NW, southbound, Leave Pennsylvania Ave NW (3:46) Enter Constitution Ave NW, westbound (US-50 West), Leave 17th Street NW (5:46) Leave Constitution Ave NW, westbound, Remain on US-50 West (6:20) Enter I-66 West, Remain on US-50 West (6:25) Potomac River, Theodore Roosevelt Bridge (6:53) Leave US-50 West, Remain on I-66 West (6:56) Enter Virginia, Leave Washington, DC; Enter Arlington County (13:59) Enter Fairfax County, Leave Arlington County (15:01) Falls Church, VA (16:55) Junction: I-495 (Capital Beltway) (17:06) Merrifield, VA (18:42) Oakton, VA (26:16) Centreville, VA (31:05) Enter Prince William County, Leave Fairfax County
Greetings from Australia. I'm a fan of your real time videos. Soothing and relaxing drive. Its like I'm there doing it myself. Find the time lapse too frantic for my taste and don't get a good chance to observe the scenery, the road, and other traffic. But each to there own. Keep up the good work
Thank you for the video :) brings back memories ... In 1994 I came from NYC to Washington and took the same way you've been driving. From Front Royal I took the Blue Ridge Parkway. Three weeks later I reached the Pacific Ocean. Was a fantastic trip :).
These real time videos are much better n really soothing...timelapse videos are ok but nothing compared to this...thanks for all the efforts bro! I know it must be really hard for u to upload such huge files. I'm from India n I can't drive cuz of my anxiety issues, so this is like a dream for me...😇😇
Dude! Your a legend! You woke up at 5AM and drove 13 hours without even taking a stop to pee! I respect you. Edit: I read the desc, I know you took stops, still got massive respect for you for driving that far.
Happy Thanksgiving. The Blue Ridge and Allegheny mountains are beautiful. My brother currently lives in DC and have been to Shenandoah National Park and the George Washington Thomas Jefferson National Forest.
Thank you. Happy Thanksgiving to you, too. Yes, those are two of my favorite places to visit. I want to expand on the videos that I have of these places at some point in the future.
This is a great lesson of US geography. In no time I will know it as perfectly as my French geography! Well, I've already knew Potomac and Schenandoah.
I decided to upload real-time video after getting many requests to do so. I'm not sure that I could sit through this whole video either, and I spent twice as many hours editing it, lol.
The only limit is the size: 128GB. There are many videos on TH-cam that are far longer than 12 hours. Just do a search for "longest TH-cam videos" and see for yourself.
unclecoolie yes, I saw quite a few videos out there that were longer than this, but as it is right now on the “Upload videos longer than 15 minutes” page, it clearly said 128GB or 12 hours!? I’m confused because of what it said on the page and what people could upload had past that limit. I have constantly trying to upload longer than 12 hours video but it said “I exceeded the limit.”
I definitely prefer this version better. It gives you time to read the road signs. Also, these videos are just so satisfying to watch. Thanks for publishing these videos, this is the kind of thing I enjoy watching. Edit: Greetings from the West Midlands in the United Kingdom. Edit 2: I wanted to ask a few questions: 1) How many US States have you been to? 2) Which US state is your favourite? 3) Is there any US states you haven't been to but really want to go to?
Thank you! Greetings from the Washington, DC area. I've been to 43 states total. The only states that I haven't been to are Alaska, Hawaii, North Dakota, Mississippi, Louisiana, Michigan, and Vermont. I enjoyed Utah, Wyoming and Colorado the most, but I also like driving through the mountains of Virginia and West Virginia. Eventually, I want to see all 50 states.
In this trip in Mo. we may be driving country ridden by the Younger's. Dalton, s and James gang of years ago. Just romanticizing as a history buff. We loved the ride beginning to end. Thank you. Port Dover On. Canada
i hoping this guy will making the video where you can get to New york all the way though Florida within 18 hour a 18 hour drive and that's like closet to 24 hour drive to get to Florida so i hoping it happens so that if i getting ready to go back to Florida one day i have a Porsche GT4 to get there in Time like Probably becuase i not going to sleep by in the Morning like towards Sunrise
I have the rest of this trip to Seattle uploaded in real-time. The links are in this video's description. I also have my west coast road trip uploaded in real-time as well.
There are 95 départements in France, what we could consider as different "states"(no federal status)...but each of us are about 5,000 km² square. It's always amazing for me to figure out how wide the 48 US continenetal states are ! Just watching your drive across Virginia , and then and so , is such a roadie adventure!
Thanks for the ride! I was reminded of our family’s trips between Evanston and Louisiana when you passed through Mt. Vernon, IL. It was a treat to see the St. Louis Arch and Busch Stadium, also. I haven’t even finished the European trip and now you’ve posted a new cross country trip! So much to see! Thank you! What does the “Heading” number measure?
You're welcome. The heading is the direction (270 degrees is west, 180 degrees is south, 90 degrees is east, and 0 is north), but I've found it to be too inaccurate, which is why I stopped using it after my 2018 videos. It's interesting how it's so inaccurate given that the position coordinates are usually very accurate.
There's about a 20 mile stretch on I-64 in southern Indiana where the time zone changes back and forth from eastern time to central time on five different occasions. Crawford to Perry (ET to CT), Perry to Dubois (CT to ET), Dubois to Spencer (ET to CT), Spencer to Dubois (CT to ET), then Dubois to Spencer (ET to CT). Once back in Spencer, between Ferdinand and Dale, it stays CT.
That's correct. The interstate planners didn't take into consideration the time zone changes. Of course, back then a driver didn't have any devices that automatically changed times for the time zones.
It probably had more to do with the road being built on or next to county lines to limit the amount of property needed to be acquired for the road. Just happened that’s where the time zone boundary is.
The state sign trifecta from Kentucky to Indiana to Illinois trying to one-up each other is great. "Birthplace of Lincoln!" "Lincoln's Boyhood Home!" "Land of Lincoln!"
I will get right on editing the video for my next trip once I finished the real-time versions of this DC-WA trip. Then I have 3 other trips planned for this summer.
unclecoolie Sounds awesome. Your videos are great quality and informative, and I always feel like I’m there when I watch them, which is a pretty good escape from the otherwise monotonous daily life. Very excited to see more!
@@unclecoolie oh right on. I was watching the vid and was he’s getting closer and closer to where I live. Always cool to see through a different perspective. I live 2 mins away from that hotel.
I have many more to come. It will be sometime in September before I get my next trip's video uploaded, which will be at 4x time-lapse then the real-time version to follow.
Thank you. Greetings from the Washington, DC area. The speed limits in all of the states that I passed through on this trip - Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri - are all 70 MPH (about 113 kmh).
Thank you! I still have three more road trips' worth of video to edit and upload from this past summer. I'll still be doing more trips in the future, though.
It's actuallly relaxing for me - at least once in a while. I live in the DC area, and the traffic here is among the worst in the nation. It's less stressful driving for a long time to places that I haven't been to in a long time if ever than to be stuck in traffic much of the time.
Thank you! I drove a 2018 Nissan Pathfinder that I rented from Dulles Airport and eventually dropped off at Sea-Tac Airport at the end of this 4-day trip.
I watch these a lot on my free time (only like a hour a day) and get to enjoy traveling even though I'm not the one traveling. Also can you do one starts or ends in dallas
@@flametaco5461 I appreciate it. I know I haven't done a trip through the south yet, including Texas. I'll figure out how I can do a trip like that at some point this year.
Also, fun fact. At 1:00:08 you cross the apalachian trail! One of, if not the longest continues foot only hiking trial in the world. Extending all the way north to Mt Kathadin, Main, and South to Springer mountain in Georgia.
Super interesting to watch it on second screen! Nice trip, looking forward for the next parts ... btw. how did you do that with the map and other geograhpical data, is it an autoamtic addon or so? And, how many memory cards did you needed? Best regards, Stefan :-)
Thanks. The route overlay is part of the Virb Edit software, but the crude graphics showing the relative city locations was done by me. I could've used the built-in maps that Virb uses, but I didn't want to have a map on the screen blocking out a sizable chunk of the video. I used a 256GB micro SD card that is just big enough to record an entire day's drive - up to 16 hours of real-time video - with the 1080p/30fps setting.
For health reasons, I will hardly ever be able to visit the States again. But videos like this one bring me back again through this very diverse, beautiful country. Thank you, Sir, for taking us on this great journey. And for those who do not see any sense in such videos: these films can bring comfort, heal souls.
Thanks for the great work. May God bless you and protect and guard you on your journeys!
Greetz from Hannover, Germany
Thank you very much! I really appreciate it. Good luck to you.
Thanks for doing this in real time. It's nice to be able to read the road signs as you go along.
My pleasure. It would've been easier to read the signs if I recorded this in UHD. The Garmin Virb Ultra 30 records in UHD, but I had to set it to 1080p/30fps in order to keep the video files from becoming too massive. As it was, this video was nearly 100GB in size and took most of the day to upload and process, and editing this file filled up my 2TB hard drive midway through the process. TH-cam has a 128GB file size limit, so if I wanted to use UHD for long road trips, I'd have to break the trip down in many parts.
Your effort and art is appreciated.
@@unclecoolie You are a great person
@@unclecoolie The trail is gone
@@terryleddra1973 Narrate
Heyy. My dream has always been driving through the US by car, but I think I will never have a chance to do it really. But you have given me a chance to experience this online :) Thanks! Greetings from Finland.
Greetings from the Washington, DC area. I said the same thing even last year, and I want to do a European road trip at some point - I'm not sure how to do it, but I will make it happen.
What's the problem with doing that either way? Book a flight, rent a car, start driving. It's not much more costly than a regular vacation.
If you realise your European trip, start in La Rochelle,(Atlantic coast, France), I'll welcome you😊
@@unclecoolie Hi, in Germany there´s no speed limit on motorways (Autobahn) , but careful, very dangerous, only on sundays and public holidays you can drive as fast as you can. :) other days too much traffic.
sincerely, Robert. ;)
C Am F G It's my dream too! and I live in the U.S. Come over and we can make this happen.
thanks for enabling the audio! hearing the nice ambiance of a car fan soothes me :)
I'm glad to hear it, thanks!
This is so damn cool I never thought I would like stuff like this
I'm glad to know that!
@@unclecoolie You are the best.
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Something about it is so satisfying.
I think it’s the mix of excitement and boredom.
He’s doing exactly what we all want to do, he’s driving across the entire U.S. And he isn’t overstimulating us either with lots of annoying music or anything, it’s just the quiet sound of the cars and the road.
this is the perfect kind of content to use as a background while home-working. Enjoying this a lot, thank you
Thanks!
My mom said 1 more Video before you sleep
Bad joke...stop doing these.
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You are an adult and yet u must write these embarrasing punchlines so u can have likes? Dont u have anything else to fill up your life with?
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I like this version much better. It is kind of like reading a book and taking time to comprehend what is going on. I will do my best to watch all of your road trip videos regarding your trip from DC to Seattle. I always love to watch travel videos!
Thanks very much!
District of Columbia 0:13 - 6:56
Virginia 6:56 - 3:26:55
West Virginia 3:26:55 - 6:24:09
Kentucky 6:24:09 - 9:11:14
Indiana 9:11:14 - 10:55:26
Illinois 10:55:26 - 12:42:19
Missouri 12:42:19 - 13:18:16
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Saw your 4x video and I thought how nice it would be to have it with real time and sound, thanks a lot for this effort mate, your country is beautiful and astonishingly big :D
Thank you. I'm glad that you like it. I uploaded the real time video of this entire trip after I got numerous requests for real time of my California-to-New York video, which unfortunately, I didn't record.
It's a surreal feeling seeing a town you live near in one of these types of videos.
Can't believe it, this is so great for me! Thanx again :)I'm from Germany and it's impossible for me -- ATM ;) -- to make such adventure trips.Please keep it up!
I'm glad that you appreciate it. I have 3 more days from this trip yet still to upload. Then I have I have future trips as well.
ths sound of the car is so chill
Ikr but mom and dad is sleeping and they dont very like me on phone soo i turn audio off age 8 time 4 am
Beautiful driving , beautiful country .
Thanks!
Always wanted to see a unedited long road trip thanks so very much from norway i gonna enjoy watching this:))))
Thanks a lot! I really appreciate it. I love the scenery of Norway; some of my all-time favorite videos are of the 10-hour long train rides in Norway. I will try to do similar train videos here in the U.S. at some point.
I was an OTR truck driver and was never able to appreciate driving across the country like I did because I'm having to worry about so many things that pertain to job. So thanks so much I can enjoy the trip through your video 😁😁😁
Thanks for driving past my house!
You're welcome. 😊
I love this. It saves me thousands of dollars on another US trip. Watching hours and hours of absolutely nothing through a car windows and eating fat burgers is all that you can do. Now, I only need to order a burger.
Un road trip et une vidéo dont beaucoup rêvaient certainement. Vous avez réalisé ce voyage de façon magistrale! J'ai 75 ans et décidé de vous accompagner pour la totalité de cette traversée en ...vélo d’appartement, accompagné par une playlist que j'avais intitulé "Route 66" et qui colle parfaitement aux grandes étendue que vous nous faites découvrir. Encore merci pour le plaisir de cette rencontre... Saintes, France ...
Thank you very much!
driving around to state to state is so underrated
8:52:46
Entering Louisville Metro, my home city!! Still visit often! ❤️❤️
I love road trips, and I just watch these longing to have another one.
Wow watching you drive thru Louisville brought back a lot of memories of my hometown. I lived right off the 64, a lot of things looked the same and a lot didn't. Thanks for posting.
Thank you! I enjoyed this drive immensely.
first of all sorry for my english i'm living in madagascar i dont know how to say but i love these road trip videos i put my headphones i take my reader and i feel i'm in this car very very good job unclecoolie
No worries on grammar. My wife is from Kenya, which is why I have a video of a train ride between Nairobi and Mombasa uploaded. I appreciate the support!
To feel the great America through internet.
I know right my dream is to go in U.S
Million Thanks to You.
Thanks! Same to you.
Hi, this is the first of your driving videos I have seen, having just found your channel. I keep dipping in and out as I get chance to watch. I will be watching your other uploads too. Hello from England, take care and stay safe. Norm. 😀
Welcome aboard! Thank you! Hello from the DC area!
@@unclecoolie Thank you Sir.
This was amazing! It took several sittings to make it through the whole day but it was well worth it. Very professionally presented. I enjoyed the displays of time, elevation, the red dot on the map marking your progress, the notation of what roads you were on. You could not have done a better job. Are you the first TH-cam provider that has posted this long of an unedited trip by car? I've seen edited videos but nothing like this. Thank you so much! I really look forward to the days you post after this one!!
Thank you very much! I really appreciate it! I have day 2 - Wildwood, MO to Aurora, CO - uploaded already, and I'm about to upload day 3, which is Aurora, CO to Caldwell, ID.
FWIW, I did a cross country trip in 2016 that I published in early 2017, 18 months before this. There may be others:
th-cam.com/video/Q2vw2pirxkE/w-d-xo.html
I agree that this a top quality job. If you don't mind my asking, what hardware/software do you use?
this with subtle rain and lofi remix 🚶🏾♂️
thx for orginal sound and awesome trip do more of these!
Thanks! I will be doing the other 3 days of this trip in the next few weeks. Then I will start working on my 2nd trip that will also have both time-lapse and real-time.
Hi, Uncle Coolie! Today I'm watching the first day , from Washington DC to Wildwood. It's 13:50 in France.I'll go to bed 13 hours later. That's what it's called slow TV, and I really enjoy: I feel OK watching it , though outside in France, it's 18° C, and I 'd better go have a walk along the seaside.
You just gave me to do as well, and plan a coast to coast journey...a fortnight would be OK, it would be frustrating for me to do it within four days.Tank you for your perfect videos, rallye👍😊
Thank you very much. I was relatively close to you: I was in Germany the last two weeks and just got home only last night. (I live in the Washington, DC area.) 18° isn't bad. It's only about 3° at my house at the moment. 😊 I have many more videos to come in the next several months.
If you continue watching all four videos, you'll notice that the topography gets pretty flat by the time I drive through Illinois and stays pretty flat until Denver, Colorado, although there are some nice rolling hills in Missouri and eastern Kansas. Driving into Denver, you can see the eastern precipice of the Rockies, which is nice. While I was in Germany, I got a chance to drive down to see the northern precipice of the Alps, which was gorgeous! I actually have video of that drive that I'll upload at some point.
Thanks Uncle Coolie, l noticed it , specially across Missouri and Kansas! To tell the truth, it's a way long, but I really enjoy the skyline, when watching some parts of your 2° step along.This huge horizon is so strange. I could not drive along your first day all, because guests came home...and I suppose they would not understand I can stick to a virtual coast to coast trip on my computer! So I stopped in Shenandoah county, which looks a little like my birthplace! But I currently live and work on the Atlantic French coast ( just a paradise , always mild weather), near La Rochelle (not New Rochelle, New Jersey!). Anyway, if you drive in France, specifically between Bordeaux and Nantes, so I would be glad you are my guest, you are welcome , don't say it is just words, I mean it! Thank you for all your perfect videos!
@@melvillebartleby6285 I would love to do that road trip. Maybe I will be able to do that one day. I appreciate the offer. 😃
Good ol' I-81. For those of us that are just used to regional road trips, that road is a monster.
It really needs to be widened to 3 lanes each direction, because it's always full of trucks sitting in the left lane going 0.01 MPH faster than the trucks in the right lane.
Omg this is amazing. I was watching so many videos from trains ( drivers view) and TH-cam recommended it to me. Such videos are soooo fascinating! Thank you and greetings from Greece
Thank you! I love train videos myself, and I would love to arrange some cab view train rides here in the U.S. one day.
@@unclecoolie That would be great ! Thanks again
My pleasure!
I love walktubes. I love drivetubes. I love USA. And your videos hit the marks with 12+ hours real-time joy! Nicely done, sir!
Thank you! I just finished an awesome trip that I'll be uploading in time lapse and real time soon.
As a child, I remember riding along I-64 west to get to extended family in Lexington. Now, I'm planning on driving US 60 the whole way from Huntington to Lexington, or maybe US 52 west from Portsmouth to US 68. Thanks for inspiring me to take the backroads!
I'm actually surprised you haven't gone along the Ohio River Scenic Byway yet (as far as I'm aware). It's a great trip, although I've only driven maybe a quarter of the route myself.
Awesome! I did a NY-CA drive in 2022 and I mostly avoided interstate highways for that trip. I took US-50 all the way from Bridgeport, WV to Garden City, KS, and that passed along the Ohio River through Cincinnati, which was very nice. I recommend that drive if you're undecided.
I love your video's!!! I've watched your timelapse video from Santa Monica to New York, and from Nebraska to California, which i like most because of all those National Parks you drove through!! I've just started with your Washington, DC to Seattle, WA timelapse video. I really like the way you've edited your timelapse video's with information like names of cities and states, road/street/US/I names, etc.
I hope that you'll make a timelapse of Florida, especially that long way to Key West! :-)
As I'm from The Netherlands which is way more flat than the Great Plains I'm looking forward to more timelapse video's of your beautiful country!!
Thank you very much! I really appreciate it! I am planning a trip to Key West later this summer, but I have several videos of my next trip after the DC-Seattle trip that I still have to upload before I get to the Key West trip. I will start editing video of that trip after I upload the 4th and final day of my drive to Seattle in real-time. Hopefully, I'll have all of these, including Key West, done in the next couple of months.
Wow! Epic trip; thanks so much for letting us share that drive with you!
I miss Illinois, I grew up there, plus most of my family is there,,but I can’t go back bc of how much drama is going on in Chicago recently. This helps me feel at home again😭
I understand what you mean. I grew up in NY, and I can't imagine going back to visit anytime soon.
This is honestly amazing never thought I would watch the full thing
I must say sir, you are amazing for uploading this, especially traveling from Coast to Coast. I wouldn't be able to do half of that without taking a day off LOL. Keep it up! You earned a subscriber.
Thank you! Initially, I hadn't considered uploading a long road trip in real-time, but I got so many requests for real-time video that I decided to finally start doing so. I will upload all 4 days of this trip in real-time, as well as the next trip that I did after this one - that will be both time-lapse and real-time as well.
Sounds great!
You're cool and your real life videos recording about the us roads! US is beautiful! Greets from Bydgoszcz, Poland;)
Thank you! Greetings from Herndon, Virginia!
Am i the only one that turned up the video really loud, then my music playlist on really low as to sound like you are in the car with low volume music because family is sleeping in the car. (I love this because it reminds me of the roadtrips my wife and i take, lol like not in a bad way but she sleeps and i drive and it just feels nice having her next to me and i still have some music playing as we travel to our vacation spot..... okay, ive typed too much. bye)
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Thank you so much, Uncle Coolie, for your great work! First step for me, till 6:30. To be continued.
My pleasure!
(0:15) Begin: Washington, DC
(0:22) Pennsylvania Ave NW, eastbound
(2:07) Enter 17th St NW, southbound,
Leave Pennsylvania Ave NW
(3:46) Enter Constitution Ave NW, westbound (US-50 West),
Leave 17th Street NW
(5:46) Leave Constitution Ave NW, westbound,
Remain on US-50 West
(6:20) Enter I-66 West,
Remain on US-50 West
(6:25) Potomac River,
Theodore Roosevelt Bridge
(6:53) Leave US-50 West,
Remain on I-66 West
(6:56) Enter Virginia, Leave Washington, DC;
Enter Arlington County
(13:59) Enter Fairfax County,
Leave Arlington County
(15:01) Falls Church, VA
(16:55) Junction: I-495 (Capital Beltway)
(17:06) Merrifield, VA
(18:42) Oakton, VA
(26:16) Centreville, VA
(31:05) Enter Prince William County,
Leave Fairfax County
Do mire
Greetings from Australia. I'm a fan of your real time videos. Soothing and relaxing drive. Its like I'm there doing it myself. Find the time lapse too frantic for my taste and don't get a good chance to observe the scenery, the road, and other traffic. But each to there own. Keep up the good work
Thank you very much, from the Washington, DC area!
Great video and thoroughly enjoyed the journey! Spent entire day viewing your journey through the Midwest and the Great Plains. Thanks.
Thank you! I really appreciate it!
I love maps since i'm like 7 and long routes i forgot since when..But this is fun
Nice
Thank you for the video :) brings back memories ... In 1994 I came from NYC to Washington and took the same way you've been driving. From Front Royal I took the Blue Ridge Parkway. Three weeks later I reached the Pacific Ocean. Was a fantastic trip :).
Awesome!
These real time videos are much better n really soothing...timelapse videos are ok but nothing compared to this...thanks for all the efforts bro! I know it must be really hard for u to upload such huge files. I'm from India n I can't drive cuz of my anxiety issues, so this is like a dream for me...😇😇
Thanks a lot. I'm glad that you appreciate them.
Dude! Your a legend! You woke up at 5AM and drove 13 hours without even taking a stop to pee! I respect you.
Edit: I read the desc, I know you took stops, still got massive respect for you for driving that far.
Thanks!
Fantastic man. Thanks.
Thanks!
Awesome video with all details
Im italian i drove from Galveston, TX to Los Angeles
Thanks.
Happy Thanksgiving. The Blue Ridge and Allegheny mountains are beautiful. My brother currently lives in DC and have been to Shenandoah National Park and the George Washington Thomas Jefferson National Forest.
Thank you. Happy Thanksgiving to you, too. Yes, those are two of my favorite places to visit. I want to expand on the videos that I have of these places at some point in the future.
@@unclecoolie Did you hike along Crabtree Falls in the Washington/Jefferson National Forest? I did
@@jonathangottlieb3975 Not yet. That's on my list. I also want to walk the trails in Shenandoah.
awesome trip I love to this kind of trips ..
Thanks!
Cool, I was in DC just a couple days before you filmed this.
love the real time rides!
I'm glad to hear it. I have some more coming up.
This is a great lesson of US geography. In no time I will know it as perfectly as my French geography! Well, I've already knew Potomac and Schenandoah.
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Love this very much it just inspires me very much to do alot of traveling when this pandemic is over. Keep up the awesome work. 😊🙏🏻
Thank you! Will do!
I like seeing it in real time but I could never watch the whole 13 hours haha!! I really want to do a road trip every time I see your videos though.
I decided to upload real-time video after getting many requests to do so. I'm not sure that I could sit through this whole video either, and I spent twice as many hours editing it, lol.
unclecoolie Nice video. How can you upload 13 hours video when the limit is 12 hours?
unclecoolie Haha!
The only limit is the size: 128GB. There are many videos on TH-cam that are far longer than 12 hours. Just do a search for "longest TH-cam videos" and see for yourself.
unclecoolie yes, I saw quite a few videos out there that were longer than this, but as it is right now on the “Upload videos longer than 15 minutes” page, it clearly said 128GB or 12 hours!? I’m confused because of what it said on the page and what people could upload had past that limit. I have constantly trying to upload longer than 12 hours video but it said “I exceeded the limit.”
I definitely prefer this version better. It gives you time to read the road signs. Also, these videos are just so satisfying to watch. Thanks for publishing these videos, this is the kind of thing I enjoy watching.
Edit: Greetings from the West Midlands in the United Kingdom.
Edit 2: I wanted to ask a few questions:
1) How many US States have you been to?
2) Which US state is your favourite?
3) Is there any US states you haven't been to but really want to go to?
Thank you! Greetings from the Washington, DC area. I've been to 43 states total. The only states that I haven't been to are Alaska, Hawaii, North Dakota, Mississippi, Louisiana, Michigan, and Vermont. I enjoyed Utah, Wyoming and Colorado the most, but I also like driving through the mountains of Virginia and West Virginia. Eventually, I want to see all 50 states.
Do you plan to visit any of the states you haven't been to?
It's weird when your driving through st.clair/st.louis, it's not busy for 6pm. It's usually busy and building traffic.
I got lucky with the traffic.
In this trip in Mo. we may be driving country ridden by the Younger's. Dalton, s and James gang of years ago. Just romanticizing as a history buff. We loved the ride beginning to end. Thank you. Port Dover On. Canada
beautiful video, congratulations
Thanks!
i hoping this guy will making the video where you can get to New york all the way though Florida within 18 hour a 18 hour drive and that's like closet to 24 hour drive to get to Florida so i hoping it happens so that if i getting ready to go back to Florida one day i have a Porsche GT4 to get there in Time like Probably becuase i not going to sleep by in the Morning like towards Sunrise
Well, it won't be in a Porsche, but I do have a road trip planned for Florida next month.
Wow,what a great Nation,what a big Country.Because,i'm living in a small Country in the middle of Europe,... ... ... SWITZERLAND!THX
Thank you! I'm actually in Stuttgart at the moment, not far from you!
Now this is exactly where I am originally from. St. Louis, Missouri. Now I am currently in Phoenix, Arizona!
What's Phoenix like? I'm thinking of moving there. I live in New York State.
Joseph Stapleton Warm weather. Cactuses. And watch out for coyotes and reptiles.
Thumbs up, if you watch the video till the end! (13 hours, 18 minutes, and 15 seconds)
Finally a video with sound, wait is there more videos that has sound or just this one
I have the rest of this trip to Seattle uploaded in real-time. The links are in this video's description. I also have my west coast road trip uploaded in real-time as well.
There are 95 départements in France, what we could consider as different "states"(no federal status)...but each of us are about 5,000 km² square. It's always amazing for me to figure out how wide the 48 US continenetal states are ! Just watching your drive across Virginia , and then and so , is such a roadie adventure!
I would love to visit France one day. Unfortunately, all that I've seen of France was from Charles de Gaulle Airport or from the air.
Sitting in the passenger seat, I'm sleeping...
My family and I drove 11.5 hours from Atlanta to Baltimore in 2008
That sounds about right.
And we drove exactly 24 hours from New York to Florida
@@AnimatingStudios2002 That sounds about right, too. I once drove from Miami to just outside of Washington, DC, and that took about 16 hours.
Thanks for the ride! I was reminded of our family’s trips between Evanston and Louisiana when you passed through Mt. Vernon, IL. It was a treat to see the St. Louis Arch and Busch Stadium, also. I haven’t even finished the European trip and now you’ve posted a new cross country trip! So much to see! Thank you! What does the “Heading” number measure?
You're welcome. The heading is the direction (270 degrees is west, 180 degrees is south, 90 degrees is east, and 0 is north), but I've found it to be too inaccurate, which is why I stopped using it after my 2018 videos. It's interesting how it's so inaccurate given that the position coordinates are usually very accurate.
There's about a 20 mile stretch on I-64 in southern Indiana where the time zone changes back and forth from eastern time to central time on five different occasions. Crawford to Perry (ET to CT), Perry to Dubois (CT to ET), Dubois to Spencer (ET to CT), Spencer to Dubois (CT to ET), then Dubois to Spencer (ET to CT). Once back in Spencer, between Ferdinand and Dale, it stays CT.
That's correct. The interstate planners didn't take into consideration the time zone changes. Of course, back then a driver didn't have any devices that automatically changed times for the time zones.
It probably had more to do with the road being built on or next to county lines to limit the amount of property needed to be acquired for the road. Just happened that’s where the time zone boundary is.
@@charleswesterfieldii4592 Yep.
Peaceful
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The state sign trifecta from Kentucky to Indiana to Illinois trying to one-up each other is great. "Birthplace of Lincoln!" "Lincoln's Boyhood Home!" "Land of Lincoln!"
This is awesome, excited to see your up and coming trips.
I will get right on editing the video for my next trip once I finished the real-time versions of this DC-WA trip. Then I have 3 other trips planned for this summer.
unclecoolie Sounds awesome. Your videos are great quality and informative, and I always feel like I’m there when I watch them, which is a pretty good escape from the otherwise monotonous daily life. Very excited to see more!
Thanks very much, I really appreciate it!
Haha this is crazy I’m from Wildwood!
Cool! Nice place. Wildwood looks to be as affluent as Fairfax County, Virginia, which is where I live.
Hung Reel Lo lol nobody ever stays at that hotel tho
Hi americansky :D
Hung Reel Lo same! I saw this and was like woah wtf
@@ItzFlamez53 a stop buling
gracias por tu video
Thank you!
hello from Pennsylvania. Enjoying the trip.
Hello from Virginia. Thanks!
Love your videos! How can you make a long trip like this without listening to the radio? I wouldn’t last one hour...
Thank you. Actually, I was listening to music through my earbuds.
it looks like you’re going 5mph after watching the sped up videos lmao
THANKS - DANKE --- EIN SUPERVIDEO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Impressive day 1 drive, that is not easy
Thanks.
I live in wildwood, it’s crazy seeing random people drive through there
It's a nice area, which is why I chose to come out there to lodge for the night.
@@unclecoolie oh right on. I was watching the vid and was he’s getting closer and closer to where I live. Always cool to see through a different perspective. I live 2 mins away from that hotel.
@@antisocialmfk I want to do a complete US-66 road trip at some point, so I may be back in town again. 😊
a wonderful video with my favourite city in this world : St. Louis ^^
please do more like this. i love it
I have many more to come. It will be sometime in September before I get my next trip's video uploaded, which will be at 4x time-lapse then the real-time version to follow.
ok good thanks
Born and raised on the west coast, east coast just scares me. It feels like another country over there...
It’s just another side.. don’t be scared lol
Congratulation, good job, wonderful. Thanks for upload. What´s the speed limit in virginia? on the I-66?
Greetings from Germany, Robert.
Thank you. Greetings from the Washington, DC area. The speed limits in all of the states that I passed through on this trip - Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri - are all 70 MPH (about 113 kmh).
@@unclecoolie thankyou, and good luck for your next vacations or trips. :)
Thank you! I still have three more road trips' worth of video to edit and upload from this past summer. I'll still be doing more trips in the future, though.
You drove 13 hours on the first day? I know how I feel after driving 8 hours... Take it easy, man!
It's actuallly relaxing for me - at least once in a while. I live in the DC area, and the traffic here is among the worst in the nation. It's less stressful driving for a long time to places that I haven't been to in a long time if ever than to be stuck in traffic much of the time.
My family and I drove from Atlanta to Baltimore in 2008. The ride was 11.5 hours.
Mon plus long trajet européen C est Bordeaux Florence en Italie 1200 km en 17h de route par l autoroute en passant par le tunnel de frejus
I got used to watch your vids in time lapse, and now i feel this like slow mo hahaha
I'm also planning to upload a few hyper-lapse videos soon, too.
@@unclecoolie Thanks man! Im pretty sure im going to enjoy those too :)
oh... my..... gosh!.... this is unbelieveble ! :D
Thanks!
STEPHEN Wylie Sears hmm :)) i understand. Thank you..
Buen video gracias!😃
Thank you!
what car did you drive may I ask? so relaxing to hear and see real-time driving. Wish I was there with you!
Thank you! I drove a 2018 Nissan Pathfinder that I rented from Dulles Airport and eventually dropped off at Sea-Tac Airport at the end of this 4-day trip.
You live near DC? Me too! You should do a meet and greet sometime :) Once we're not in a pandemic, of course...
Yeah, near Dulles Airport. I can't wait for this crisis to be over, so I can do some more driving.
@@unclecoolie Would you do a meet and greet someday? Or is that not your style?
@@raimemasket3450 Maybe one day. I have to admit that I live a rather private life.
It must have felt exciting to start a trip like this :D
It was. I just did a 4-day road trip a couple of weeks ago, which was the first time since 10/2019 that I did one, and it felt great.
This channel needs way more subscribers
Thank you! But I'm getting them. Early last year I had about 100 subscribers total, and now I've passed 16,000.
I watch these a lot on my free time (only like a hour a day) and get to enjoy traveling even though I'm not the one traveling.
Also can you do one starts or ends in dallas
@@flametaco5461 I appreciate it. I know I haven't done a trip through the south yet, including Texas. I'll figure out how I can do a trip like that at some point this year.
@@unclecoolie Thank you
Also, fun fact. At 1:00:08 you cross the apalachian trail! One of, if not the longest continues foot only hiking trial in the world. Extending all the way north to Mt Kathadin, Main, and South to Springer mountain in Georgia.
Cool. I've never really walked on that trail, even though I grew up close to in in Orange County, NY.
Super interesting to watch it on second screen! Nice trip, looking forward for the next parts ... btw. how did you do that with the map and other geograhpical data, is it an autoamtic addon or so? And, how many memory cards did you needed? Best regards, Stefan :-)
Thanks. The route overlay is part of the Virb Edit software, but the crude graphics showing the relative city locations was done by me. I could've used the built-in maps that Virb uses, but I didn't want to have a map on the screen blocking out a sizable chunk of the video. I used a 256GB micro SD card that is just big enough to record an entire day's drive - up to 16 hours of real-time video - with the 1080p/30fps setting.
Thanks a lot for your answer! Best Stefan
Love the videos a lot!!! What's the camera you're using here?
Thank you! I used the Garmin Virb Ultra 30 for this video.
I wish my country is beautiful like that
I really enjoyed this videos