I sure do like that Sandhills country in northern and north/west Nebraska. Sweet loping hills that run forever, and your music was very appropriate to the rhythms of that country.
Small (pop 2500) town kid now 71 years young grew up in eastern Nebraska and while different than Sandhills makes my heart feel good. My music appreciation professor from college would love the music. Very well done. I’m not sure our current population but one side or the other of 3 million. You should get 2 million likes EASY.
Being British, I find these videos of the USA absolutely fascinating… some of the rural areas of rundown towns is eye opening…. Great viewing…🇬🇧🇺🇸..👏👏👍
Don't get me wrong, I DO enjoy Rapid City. It's a neat historical place. But, I also really like that you capture all this footage of small towns around the country that most people have never heard of. I've always been fascinated with life in small towns, particularly in the south and west where everything is more spread out in comparison to places on the east coast. Small gas stations, quirky thrift stores, local restaurants, layout of the residential areas, just the whole atmosphere of small town life is much more appealing to me really. It always seems like people are more laid back and down-to-earth in small towns too, in places where everybody knows you by your first name. Never been particularly interested in the hustle and bustle of big cities/metro areas. I just started following this channel, not sure if this is what you do for a job or not but it'd be the absolute dream for me to do stuff like this. Dig the music too. It's nice to zone out and get lost in these videos whenever I get time. Keep doing what you're doing! I'm enjoying the content!
Joe & Nic, have been watching a few of your recent videos and came across this one. A great video and great music to drive by. I am from Melbourne, Australia and have not been to the States but have driven over many miles of open road like this here in the "outback". I see deer jumping the fence just like kangaroos over here. And the surprise was the bull bar on the truck which is mandatory over here out back. Keep posting these videos as they give us non travellers (now for me ) a view of a world less known!! safe travels!!
Nice Drive thru peaceful quiet Landscape . I like the Toes at 7 : 12 , best part of Video . I have been to North Platte a couple times , Scouts Rest . Thanks for taking Us along .
Thanks for providing extra views of the romping deer before entering Gordon, Nebraska. The Badlands are blanch, haunting, yet enticing. Hope you'll pause in Rapid City to do a separate video. As always, I was along.
It better be in good running order. In the Sandhills you are, literally, HUNDREDS of miles from a service station. Breakdown out there, you are in serious trouble.
That was a mesmerizing drive. As a Southerner, I grew up very close to a swamp and have always been surrounded by trees and foliage and greenery in the states I've lived in. Those wide-open, treeless spaces are a bit unsettling in a way I can't quite describe. Something about the exposure, I guess. Still, it's beautiful in a very different way. And I LOVED that music. Who is that?
I love the open spaces, I started driving truck in 2002 and talked about North Platte, Laramie, or Montana after my first trip west thst summer. Busted my knee, lost my job in july, couldn't find another paying over $10 in northwest Pennsylvania in 2010, so I got online and was headed for North Dakota to hook up with a harvester by the middle of August. Corn came off early that year, so we were sent back from central Kansas and cut loose the second week of October. I headed toward North Platte, knowing a few guys from the area, and ended up down in the Republican River valley instead. I was told I'd get used to driving forever to go nowhere, and that came somewhere between Valentine and Stapleton. 60 days on the high plains and it already felt more like home than Pennsylvania and Ohio ever had.
@@KatiTheButcher / I can see that. There's almost a loss of any perspective. On the hand, I can see someone coming to the Deep South from the Plains or the desert Southwest and feeling almost swallowed up or smothered by a wall of trees and greenery.
Hey Lord Sparta, love your videos. It would be cool if you did a best of episode or even a whole series. Like best small town, best city, best food etc.
If I travel to South Dakota I like to drive hwy 281. Not much to see, mostly small towns. The foothills are nice. Seems like South Dakota has more visible wildlife than we do here in Nebraska. Good music by the way.
What beautiful countryside. It must have been a great drive. Great music on this video too by the way. One of the best for sure. Please can you tell me who it is?
Thank you, Graham. The music is from a band called Unicorn Heads. The name of the song is "Light Expanse". It took me over an hour to find the right song. As soon as this one started, I knew it was the one. :)
It'd be cool if you had a map overlay along the journey as you reached each region. It would help us tag along and find these cool places on google maps incase your viewers wanted to visit these places too!
Very cool video. Did you know the area around Hyannis is one of the richest in America? Few people many giant land owners with extreme net worth! If you go to Rushmore go before they open by say a half hour there will be nobody in the lot. And things will open by the time you walk around and get some great video!
@@KatiTheButcher Nothing wrong with small town/rural living. as long as you can get what you need nearby like medical services and groceries., car repairs etc, .
August 2020 Red Power Roundup was in Huron, went up through Mitchell (corn palace was uninspiring) out 14 to Wall Drug and Mt Rushmore. I was between Lemmon and Valentine a couple times 12 years ago. Enjoyed both.
Fun memories: I took highway 83 north from Texas to North Dakota. You clearly didn't, but the country was familiar to me. If you're in Rapid City, a nearby small town worth checking out is Lead: very steep old gold-mining town, now a center of particle research. Nearby Central City is tiny, but also very cool. I don't care for Deadwood, but that's my own bias. Touring Needles Highway and Iron Mountain Highway would also be fun, just not if the Sturgis rally is going on (starts next weekend, I think). I live in the North Dakota Badlands. I'll concede that the South Dakota version is more impressive, but ours have their own unique charm.
Lord Spoda you’ll have to check out spearfish as well! The canyon is beautiful. The waterfalls, the mountains, the creek… it’s spectacular. I love living here. Grew up on the plains, near the Nebraska border in SD, but spearfish will always be home for me.
As one of general left-progressive sentiments I cannot deny that urban snobbery is at least somewhat real. Mainly because I grew up in North Platte and shared a faint echo of that ala Platte valley vs Sandhills people. Yet no one from any part of Nebraska or the Northern plains can deny that the beauty of The Sandhills in that crucial window between April and July easily rivals that of the Rockies or either seashore
Many of your videos show depressed, depressing small towns and cities [i.e. Texarcana]. It's so nice to see a beautiful part of th country with a healthy economy. I hope this region doesn't get overrun by mobs of West Coast Leftists hell-bent on re-creating what they left behind.
As a very recent retiree, I'm looking to relocate from the East Coast to this very area, mostly for the isolation it offers. But trust me, I'm no Leftist! Not by a long shot! 👍
I sure do like that Sandhills country in northern and north/west Nebraska. Sweet loping hills that run forever, and your music was very appropriate to the rhythms of that country.
Thank you, Roberto. I don't think enough people know how beautiful western Nebraska is.
@@JoeandNicsRoadTrip Born and raised in western Nebraska, yes it is beautiful!!
The section from North Platte, through Hyannis is the west portion of what is known as the Sand Hills. It is quite beautiful in the summer.
I live on the southeast border of the sandhills, I love driving the back roads in the summer.
One of the best places of Nebraska.
@@KatiTheButcher a hidden gem during deer season
Small (pop 2500) town kid now 71 years young grew up in eastern Nebraska and while different than Sandhills makes my heart feel good. My music appreciation professor from college would love the music. Very well done. I’m not sure our current population but one side or the other of 3 million. You should get 2 million likes EASY.
Thank you for the kind words, Don!
I grew up in Papillion Nebraska
Being British, I find these videos of the USA absolutely fascinating… some of the rural areas of rundown towns is eye opening…. Great viewing…🇬🇧🇺🇸..👏👏👍
Great video. My wife and I like to drive back roads when we travel. Perfect music for the video.
Knox 😑🤔
Don't get me wrong, I DO enjoy Rapid City. It's a neat historical place. But, I also really like that you capture all this footage of small towns around the country that most people have never heard of. I've always been fascinated with life in small towns, particularly in the south and west where everything is more spread out in comparison to places on the east coast. Small gas stations, quirky thrift stores, local restaurants, layout of the residential areas, just the whole atmosphere of small town life is much more appealing to me really. It always seems like people are more laid back and down-to-earth in small towns too, in places where everybody knows you by your first name. Never been particularly interested in the hustle and bustle of big cities/metro areas. I just started following this channel, not sure if this is what you do for a job or not but it'd be the absolute dream for me to do stuff like this. Dig the music too. It's nice to zone out and get lost in these videos whenever I get time. Keep doing what you're doing! I'm enjoying the content!
No worries, Benn, I will be doing small town videos for the foreseeable future. Most likely every other video will be one of those.
Great song! Really fit the vibe of the whole trip.
such beautiful landscapes, scenery.
Yeah Mike 😚😉
Joe & Nic, have been watching a few of your recent videos and came across this one. A great video and great music to drive by.
I am from Melbourne, Australia and have not been to the States but have driven over many miles of open road like this here in the "outback". I see deer jumping the fence just like kangaroos over here. And the surprise was the bull bar on the truck which is mandatory over here out back.
Keep posting these videos as they give us non travellers (now for me ) a view of a world less known!! safe travels!!
These are my favorite videos from LS - the music is great along with the scenery.
Thanks for the memories.
Nice timing with the deer...🦌
It was amazing. :)
Very nice scenery! Great choice of music!
Thank you very much!
Astonishing scenery! We plan to fly do Dallas this August, I really look forward for it.
Nice Drive thru peaceful quiet Landscape . I like the Toes at 7 : 12 , best part of Video . I have been to North Platte a couple times , Scouts Rest . Thanks for taking Us along .
Amazing scenery!! Good choice of music😎👍
Wow, it looks so deserted, so magical!
Beautiful country and well done video. Really liked the part going through Scenic, SD.
Thank you for the kind words, Brian. :)
You are coming right through my neck of the woods 🤣
Just found your video. I grew up in Mobridge SD and attended church camp in the Black Hills. The topography reminded me of upstate SD.
@@Babararoot55 🤔?
@@Babararoot55 I now live in Texas, and have been since '72. I grew up in Mobridge in the 60's. I take it that you're from that area?
I saved this to my favorites because I used to live in Rapid City. I can watch it when I’m home sick.
Awesome!! :)
Really love these videos. Thanks for doing them.
Thank you, Peter. :)
Beautiful footage and great music choice ! You nailed it.
Wow, thank you Alan.
I made this drive about twenty years ago. It's amazing. Great video!
Thanks for providing extra views of the romping deer before entering Gordon, Nebraska. The Badlands are blanch, haunting, yet enticing. Hope you'll pause in Rapid City to do a separate video. As always, I was along.
Yes, there will definitely be a video of Rapid City, David, as well as videos Sturgis & Deadwood. There are some really incredible sights here.
Very nice audio and video, enjoyed the ride sir
Thank you, just loved your video.
Thank you for that, Dennis. :)
I have been looking at this route as a nice alternate when going to the black hills. thank you
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The scenery reminds me of that old movie Badlands, with Sissy Spacek.
Great Video Man! i would love to Drive my old 33 Chevy Coupe on those roads. maybe someday.
Great car!
It better be in good running order. In the Sandhills you are, literally, HUNDREDS of miles from a service station. Breakdown out there, you are in serious trouble.
Beautiful ♥️ drive adventure 🦋☘️🌞 enjoying fr jamaica 🇯🇲🌞🏖️😎
great exploring !!! i love our wide open spaces !!!
Rapid City looks like a nice place. Thanks for the ride
It's beautiful. I'm finishing up a video of it now.
I love that house shown in frame 1:24!
I was in Rapid City a few years back. Thought it was a pretty nice place.
For a town of 1,600 Gordon ,NE looked like a megalopolis compared to the rest of the 200-500 population towns you went through.
I would have loved to see those old towns back in the day
Seen a few of your videos ,liked them so I've now subscribed.
Awesome, Richard! I'm glad you're here. :)
You were travelling through novelist Mari Sandoz country. Beautiful. I went to the Badlands about 30 years ago and found it fascinating.
That was a mesmerizing drive. As a Southerner, I grew up very close to a swamp and have always been surrounded by trees and foliage and greenery in the states I've lived in. Those wide-open, treeless spaces are a bit unsettling in a way I can't quite describe. Something about the exposure, I guess. Still, it's beautiful in a very different way. And I LOVED that music. Who is that?
The music is by Unicorn Heads.
I love the open spaces, I started driving truck in 2002 and talked about North Platte, Laramie, or Montana after my first trip west thst summer.
Busted my knee, lost my job in july, couldn't find another paying over $10 in northwest Pennsylvania in 2010, so I got online and was headed for North Dakota to hook up with a harvester by the middle of August.
Corn came off early that year, so we were sent back from central Kansas and cut loose the second week of October. I headed toward North Platte, knowing a few guys from the area, and ended up down in the Republican River valley instead.
I was told I'd get used to driving forever to go nowhere, and that came somewhere between Valentine and Stapleton. 60 days on the high plains and it already felt more like home than Pennsylvania and Ohio ever had.
Perhaps it's because when you're out there you realize it's so much bigger than you or anyone. I grew up in Wyoming and I love the big open spaces.
There is a term for that. It is called "plains madness", literally drives some people crazy.
@@KatiTheButcher / I can see that. There's almost a loss of any perspective. On the hand, I can see someone coming to the Deep South from the Plains or the desert Southwest and feeling almost swallowed up or smothered by a wall of trees and greenery.
You drove through my reservation!!! Pine Ridge!!!
Love this drive!
Thank you, Shane!
Hey Lord Sparta, love your videos. It would be cool if you did a best of episode or even a whole series. Like best small town, best city, best food etc.
We will be in a couple of months.
I like driving across NE.
Me too!
This where it gets exciting
Yeppers 🥲
Love the music, who is that?
If I travel to South Dakota I like to drive hwy 281. Not much to see, mostly small towns. The foothills are nice. Seems like South Dakota has more visible wildlife than we do here in Nebraska. Good music by the way.
What beautiful countryside. It must have been a great drive. Great music on this video too by the way. One of the best for sure. Please can you tell me who it is?
Thank you, Graham. The music is from a band called Unicorn Heads. The name of the song is "Light Expanse". It took me over an hour to find the right song. As soon as this one started, I knew it was the one. :)
If your into hiking. The badlands are a pretty interesting hike. Not to mention the black hills.
Rapid City! Home!
Got a full video of the city coming up! :)
Those shots of the Badlands do not do it justice
The road hasn't changed in 34 years. The Badlands are just as beautiful today as they were back in 1988. Enjoy
LOL, Are you been Honest ?? Or a Joke ??😀🤞
This is a trip we have take.
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U noticed the state route signs number in state shaped SD
It'd be cool if you had a map overlay along the journey as you reached each region. It would help us tag along and find these cool places on google maps incase your viewers wanted to visit these places too!
Thanks for the exact drive I was wanting to take myself. I can rest easy now.
Cool!! :)
Those old buildings wasa town called Scenic ,South Dakota...just so ya know
Thank you for the info. I was wondering what was going on there!
Cut wheat on harvest crew through that whole area 1965
Like your Bronco have you named it or been nicknamed Bronco and or Bronci after it?
We haven't. That's a good idea. We'll have to come up with something. :)
They have good roads out there
Excellent roads.
The musical score you chose for this video is excellent. What is it?
The song is called "Light Expanse" by Unicorn Heads.
Very cool video. Did you know the area around Hyannis is one of the richest in America? Few people many giant land owners with extreme net worth! If you go to Rushmore go before they open by say a half hour there will be nobody in the lot. And things will open by the time you walk around and get some great video!
Thank you for the kind words, Joan. I had no idea about Hyannis! :)
Grant County ranks 90 of 93 counties in Nebraska for population.
Grant, Hooker, Thomas, Arthur, McPherson, and Logan hold 6 of the bottom 9 spots.
Seeing the deer jump the fence I realized you missed a cat in North Platt?
Did you check out much of the reservation or did you just drive through it?
Just a quick drive through it. Didn't want to seem obnoxious.
Do you think you'll ever go through Cairo, IL? If you did my bad, just found channel
Wow... Been thru there once. just wow, what a sad town..
@@arnoldgrubbs2005 We can't all live in Gordon , NE.
@@markbajek2541 my town is so small it is technically a village. Less than 100 people but I love it.
I am definitely going to Cairo, maybe next month. That place looks fascinating! :)
@@KatiTheButcher Nothing wrong with small town/rural living. as long as you can get what you need nearby like medical services and groceries., car repairs etc, .
Alex Johnson Hotel!
Rooftop bar is awesome at sunset, guest only access.
South Dakota prairie is beautiful in late May early June.
August 2020 Red Power Roundup was in Huron, went up through Mitchell (corn palace was uninspiring) out 14 to Wall Drug and Mt Rushmore. I was between Lemmon and Valentine a couple times 12 years ago. Enjoyed both.
No more winter wonderland scenery.
0:50 I swear this looks like a filming location for “Fear The Walking Dead.”
Anyone have any crazy reservation stories?
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My grandmother was born in Hyannis in 1915.
I hope you liked Rapid!
Love it. One of my favorite cities in the US. :)
What about the reservation?
Ira 😊
What about Newcastle Nebraska into vermillion south dakota?
My favorite part of Nebraska is Scottsbluff in the Western Part of Nebraska.
We will be going there in time. :)
Dude if you have 20 minutes of footage through the Nebraska sandhills you could publish that as a sleep aid video for sure!
Not a bad idea. :)
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for no more than it was that was a good video and I enjoyed it
Fun memories: I took highway 83 north from Texas to North Dakota. You clearly didn't, but the country was familiar to me.
If you're in Rapid City, a nearby small town worth checking out is Lead: very steep old gold-mining town, now a center of particle research. Nearby Central City is tiny, but also very cool. I don't care for Deadwood, but that's my own bias. Touring Needles Highway and Iron Mountain Highway would also be fun, just not if the Sturgis rally is going on (starts next weekend, I think).
I live in the North Dakota Badlands. I'll concede that the South Dakota version is more impressive, but ours have their own unique charm.
Thank you for the tips. We will be doing a Deadwood video, but we will definately check out Lead & Central City.
Lord Spoda you’ll have to check out spearfish as well! The canyon is beautiful. The waterfalls, the mountains, the creek… it’s spectacular. I love living here. Grew up on the plains, near the Nebraska border in SD, but spearfish will always be home for me.
@@dalerimoller272 I agree with that! Several great waterfalls in the canyon, and Devil's Bathtub is a worthwhile hike!
Where did you get that music from
TH-cam has a catalog that is made available to creators. There's some pretty good stuff there.
not any fence stoping that deer lol
Right!? It was an amazing sight!
@@JoeandNicsRoadTrip there was a deer,or maybe an ntelope that crossed the road in front of him,and easily bounded over the fence
@@michaelstallings5824 🤔
@@michaelstallings5824 it had to be a deer. Antelope will not jump a fence.
No joke.
I am from Nebraska bur bow living in Arizona and do not remember this town Ashby but it is my grandmothers maiden name.
Been there was stationed at Ellsworth A FB
"How is everything in Rapid City?" - Cary Grant.
Rapid City is amazing. The video will be up in a couple days.
Overrun.
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Yes Beautiful 🤩 🤓
I didn't see a traffic light in Hyannis 🚦🤣
Look like old city.
The real America.
Absolutely Alan🙃
There's no people🤯
TORNADO ALLEY😆😆😆
High Plains Drifter.
As one of general left-progressive sentiments I cannot deny that urban snobbery is at least somewhat real. Mainly because I grew up in North Platte and shared a faint echo of that ala Platte valley vs Sandhills people. Yet no one from any part of Nebraska or the Northern plains can deny that the beauty of The Sandhills in that crucial window between April and July easily rivals that of the Rockies or either seashore
Music gets annoying after first couple of minutes.
Looks like tornado country.
Too bad it snows there.
You finally found an area without those ugly wind mills.
Ugh 😑
Many of your videos show depressed, depressing small towns and cities [i.e. Texarcana]. It's so nice to see a beautiful part of th country with a healthy economy. I hope this region doesn't get overrun by mobs of West Coast Leftists hell-bent on re-creating what they left behind.
We are holding up pretty good, most people can't handle the isolation. They don't call it plains madness for nothing.
As a very recent retiree, I'm looking to relocate from the East Coast to this very area, mostly for the isolation it offers. But trust me, I'm no Leftist! Not by a long shot! 👍
@@centuryrox you are welcome
They're already invading.
good for speeding. nobody around
I bet that’s a desolate wasteland in the winter.
Can't get out of Nebraska quick enough only good thing in South Dakota is the black hills no need to go anywhere else there
Oh Really ?😉😗