Abandonment on Route 66 - The Blue Hole - Owl Cafe - The Dog House - El Rancho Hotel

[@synth5091]

That shower has some Psycho Bates Motel vibes!

[@illmerica322]

I love how I can just travel the world via my phone and KZbin thank you for making this documentary from New Haven Connecticut

[@K1TT3NM1TT3N5]

Yeahhh Connecticut gang!

[@mikehughes4969]

I'm sorry if I bum anyone out, but that auto graveyard just about broke my fn heart. To see all of those beautiful old classics reduced to rusting hulks is painful to my soul. Seriously. But, if you have the right kind of eyes and squint, you can see what they were, and what they could be again. Sigh...

[@gollybass]

El Rancho also featured on Ghost Adventures!

[@s.walker9176]

“Graffito-tagged by hooligans” is my new favorite description! 🤣 This is a great video, super fun, and everything I love. I am obsessed with abandoned structures, and the Route 66 road trip is always a favorite. There’s always new things to do and see! Have fun and be safe!

[@cindythecatwoman1601]

You know it's not about the destination it's about the experience of getting there. Take your time and explore the different places. Thanks for taking me with you. That car with the shovel on it made me laugh 😅. You know just in case you need a shovel while you're driving.

[@pamelakern2849]

These videos keep getting better and better . We always love Carpetbagger but this series is above and beyond!! 💥💫💥💫

[@nicholasmiller7759]

I wish I could travel route 66 but I would not be able to afford it I'm glad you make videos of it

[@barbarashirland9078]

Thank YOU. We can all armchair travel while watching your videos!

[@worldsokayestmom6725]

Hey! Jane Fonda is Henry Fonda's daughter, LOL More fun facts Peter Fonda of Easy Rider fame is Janes brother. Keep up the awesome job and awesome personality!

[@carlyrose4040]

Cool shirt Jacob! Thanks for traveling the Route 66 again it’s a huge bucket list of mine.

[@AnthonysMisadventures]

Danny's carwash. My favorite! That spicy hot dog kicked in very unexpected! 🤣

[@filipohman7277]

Awesome Work Bro, Thanks 👍👍😀 Greetings from Helsinki, Finland 🇫🇮🇺🇸🇫🇮🇺🇸🇫🇮🇺🇸

[@Gizmo100ish]

El Rancho is like the Shining Hotel of New Mexico, or so I hear, would love to go their

[@UweJMeyer]

Jacob, you are the best ambessedor of your great Nation.

[@joanyount3239]

Thank you so much for taking us with you - I feel like I’m there!

[@wykydcarrie9028]

Love this series! You're fun to "travel" with.

[@dawnbenchley7237]

Love those Edsels! And the Desi Arnaz meal.

[@kevinsmoak7921]

We are still following your adventures on the mother road stay safe.

[@ScottRipley]

Wish I had the freedom to do what you're doing. Just did my first "Post-Covid" road trip from Amarillo to Barstow and back on 66 between Christmas and New Years. It was a bit more purposeful than I like, and didn't get to really stop at as many places as I'd want to. Have really enjoyed your videos in the no-travel time of the last couple of years. Going to aim for El Rancho my next trip, and looking forward to the rest of this series.

[@blakkcigarstud]

Your Route 66 videos bring back the best memories of traveling across the country with my family. Stopping at the roadside markets, getting turquoise jewelry in NM, pecan logs at Stuckeys, petrified wood etc. so much fun, so many memories conjured up.

[@steph.v.o.7078]

I always enjoy the online trips, I have seen awesome places because of you 💁🏻‍♀️ Greetings from the Netherlands 🇳🇱

[@CyberZombie]

I'm so glad to see the town I grew up in, Grants, listed on a Route 66 video. Most of the time video makers would skip over most of New Mexico even though it has 500+ miles of 66. 😁

[@bripena6475]

Reminds me of some of your earlier vids! Love the abandoned stuff!

[@Crystalblue58]

Traveling the country through your camera lens is my new way to see the country! Thank you!

[@cowtownokla]

Another great episode Jacob!!!

[@AllPistonsGarage]

Really enjoying this Route 66 road trip.

[@dantastic7830]

Thank you for bringing us along!!

[@Texasscout96]

I'm really enjoying this road trip, Jacob! I feel like I'm riding with you. thanks.

[@walteradamski5169]

My favorite part was the antique junkyard! Fascinating!

[@Eighties-Jadie]

The owl cafe was cool and the BLT sandwich looked lovely 🥪 loved the wee black cat chilling out on the roof of a car! 🐱 The sodas of the day keep getting better! El Rancho Hotel looked really cool and your dinner and cocktail looked fantastic!🍹😍 I love your Mothman t-shirt! You have very cool style ✨ Best wishes Jacob and thanks ☀️

[@Coopdog-dp5eq]

You are doing a good thing! Love the old commercial buildings, signs, etc. Thanks man.

[@kyleh698]

I LOVE THAT MOTHMAN SHIRT~ i have one as well!

[@nicholedecker9124]

Wow! I volunteered at the Navajo children's home in Window Rock. We would travel to Gallup and eat there at the restaurant in the El Rancho hotel. Awe the memories! Thank you for sharing your travels!

[@silverghostcat1924]

Love your videos. I'm so glad I found this channel. I get to road trip without the stress of driving. Thank you for these great trips 💜🐳🎡🎢🎠

[@donnafriedt-gyulay3815]

There is also a 'blue hole' attraction in Castalia, Ohio. Ask about whether Audie Murphy stayed in any of the rooms of El Rancho. [He was the most decorated WWII army soldier .

[@57Banjoman]

I was going to make a comment about Castalia, as well, Donna-saw it quite a few times as a kid-it is currently closed.

[@Rossturnerphoto]

I’ve been watching your videos from this trip out of order, but I’ve enjoyed seeing your experiences in the different places along route 66. It’s really cool to see in video form places that I’ve only seen photos of and hope to visit one day.

[@susanboatman7913]

Jacob, I am loving your trip down Route 66. I especially love your choice of vintage hotels/moteld.

[@kimballamram552]

Going for that authentic experience from a bygone era

[@civlwrbuf]

I love that lobby it is so well done. Thank you for your service to world in doing these vids

[@Optopolis]

Interesting content. It's crazy how much old stuff can still be found today on older roads in the US!

[@philipmitchell3450]

My wife and I drove out to Tucumcari last spring break while in New Mexico. What an interesting community.

[@allenthibault9523]

Hey Jacob love this trip ! Yeah Jane Fonda is Hanoy Jane ! She's Henry Fonda's daughter !!!🤓🤗

[@lydiapurple]

The owl cafe is adorable!

[@vonitadustylgreen2914]

I love traveling with you. You go to all the neat places I wish I could go. Thank you Jacob.We all appreciate you and your travels so much. Thats what I love about New Mexico. The food is spicy! Stay safe. Stay well. Stay blessed...

[@kevinroberts1888]

Enjoyed the video. Really liked the look of that hotel. The lobby really took me back to how a lot of those type of establishments looked when I was a kid in the 70's. I was actually up by Route 66 in Flagstaff on a trip about a week ago. Didn't get to spend very long in the area though. It's a little over an hour drive from where I live. Need to get up there some time just to explore along the route.

[@sharylcherwa7369]

Thank you Jacob. I Really Enjoyed Following Along. You Did a Really Great Job. I Laughed Out Loud a couple times. Stay Safe in your Travels.

[@juanzapata492]

These old buildings are legendary; why the destruction 🫣

[@breadboxx6662]

It's really sad seeing all those buildings being abandoned,broken into,and cover up in crap like that😥.

[@karenstraw7301]

Driving down Route 66 was Always a Fantasy of mine. I'm living my Fantasy watching this Thank you for making it Fun. I Love your Channel Stay Safe Jacob Hello from Niagara Falls, N.Y

[@Chrisss2112]

So far, it looks like a pretty expensive trip 😳. The lobby of that hotel/motel is stunning when you first walk in

[@tammyritter9258]

You Are Doing A Fabulous job of Documentation of Route 6 Be Proud of what You Can Do! Not everyone has the talent. Safe Travels My friend.. Thank You

[@1987Megs]

I absolutely love historic hotels! Such a unique experience. Thanks for another great video 👍🙂

[@marybmccormick]

Been fun today love Mary have a wonderful blessed night see you tomorrow 😘🌞😘 sad to see all the empty buildings and the decaying of them.

[@TheGroover72]

I have always wanted a restaurant booth in my kitchen.

[@allenpedrick6502]

Loving this awesome road trip!!!!

[@bonniekaye]

23:07 *Made me smile!*

[@barbaraoxford1560]

I live in Albuquerque.. and the Owl Cafe has been here for at least 30 years. Great place and literally down the street. Would have loved to meet you and get a autograph..been watching you for quite some time. Cool you went through the city. It was so awesome to watch you come in from Amarillo. Cadillac Ranch is pretty cool. The aquarium you went to in Missouri is a place I want to see personally. Keep the great videos coming. You're amazing

[@HawSnowwhite]

Hi I love what you are doing! It is important to document these places, I fear it is a fading pastime,so it could possibly just disappear. So Nostalgic and Wonderful that you are giving Route 66 and roadside places Love! Hats off to you! Thank you!

[@bonnieharris8112]

I found a T-shirt from Pops on Route 66 in a thrift store here in Fresno CA, in very good shape. That was nice.

[@frostybaby13]

I feel like I'm on a road trip too, thanks for the video it's so enjoyable to be watching while working! :D

[@juliegrey5280]

Enjoying the Route 66 videos! This one is making me crave some NM green and red chile!

[@NessieMay]

El Rancho looks like a super cool place to stay. 👍

[@syedhamidi5643]

I always love jacob composition to the subjects. I know jacob is great photographer 📸

[@tamieckert4548]

Hi Jacob, Sorry to see in the beginning here, but I have a theory about all the sick graffiti.My guess is that a company actually hires hands to do undo these historical sites so no one will be interested in buying real estate there.And they strip out the goods before looting happens.,and the company makes a profit off left overs.My Dad worked on building Route 66.Love the car museum.About the grave markers,my boyfriend died in a car accident about 3yrs ago.I write stories,the area you’re covering makes me think of a 30s-50s story about a guy.but takes place in California,mainly.Wanna show this great video of yours to my parents at their nursing home.Cool work👏Enjoyed very much!👍😁

[@1984potionlover]

It always makes me a little melancholic to see old vehicles just sitting , uncared for and dilapidated. All they are is rust in the wind.

[@SeekingSerpent6]

Wicked. I had a friend who cook there.(Owl Cafe,another old restaurant). Nice to see it..Yes Garcia's Cafe can be spicy but so good! Very old place been there for years..As for the Chile by law It has to be sold in restaurants. I love this.

[@kenrod4]

Really sad that people would vandalize those old buildings. I was surprised that there wasn’t any snakes or rats.

[@deblamkin8824]

Your taking me along on my bucket list trip. Also you should get a travel kitty to go with you.

[@tomklock568]

New Mexico has some great food though spicy or not. Not good for my stomach sadly! Enjoy your drive. Just disgusted though to see the destruction of these places...it's like kicking someone after they're already down. Thanks for the video!

[@LionofJudah75]

Jacob, you should really try Sparkling Ice Orange Mango. Only diet drink that I found that doesn't taste diet...and really good for you. Look for it in the supermarket bottled water aisle.

[@stifledvoice]

thank you for letting us be voyeurs to the parts of your life you selected to share

[@demonoid7469]

A Wicker Motorcycle gang would be called...Hell in Handbaskets

[@angels-with-talons]

hope you're doing okay, jacob. thank you so much for another video! 🫂

[@bentstrider]

Been past the Santa Rosa NM car museum, but never went inside. Now that I know that some of the collection is up for grabs, I'll definitely have to make the drive up from Clovis to check it out. Tucumcari is always a nice spot to head up to. Of course the entire west side of town is deader than the rest. It would be cool to take possession of that old, tagged up Sinclair and turn it into a residence. As a trucker, fuel hauling positions for the local Pilot/Flying J up there bug me from time to time for work. That would be the perfect way to pull off that project. Turn the lobby into a studio apartment and the garages into personal working space and a rumpus room. Good times. -

[@LVVMCMLV]

28:47. My all-time favorite Western!!!!

[@artandmorewithrachelnicole]

Keep up the awesome videos ❤

[@truckermatt4603]

I saw when you were in the casino showing the arrows and the cop was sitting there, remember when you were live streaming and the cops came up to you and thought you were filming inside the bank lol, good times.

[@OldMovieRob]

Loved seeing old Hollywood referenced at the El Rancho Hotel

[@supermama4748]

The Blue Hole is an artesian well and cenóte that was once used as a fish hatchery. It is a tourist attraction and swimming venue, and one of the most popular dive destinations in the US for scuba diving and training. Fauna present in the Blue Hole includes goldfish, koi, carp, and crawdads. The Continental Divide of the Americas is the principal, and largely mountainous, hydrological divide of the Americas. The Continental Divide extends from the Bering Strait to the Strait of Magellan, and separates the watersheds that drain into the Pacific Ocean from those river systems that drain into the Atlantic and (in northern North America) Arctic oceans (including those that drain into the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean Sea and Hudson Bay). El Rancho Hotel-The original structure was built by Pete Fecharo in 1939. At that time it was owned by Frank and Mae Guth.

[@tamieckert4548]

Adding love the “El Ranchero”!

[@merenaa.2746]

You barely escape Christine’s grasp in that auto graveyard lol

[@steved9660]

I'm always worried that some kind of Leatherface is going to come charging at you out of one of these ruins.

[@kaiyotee2475]

2:04 Grandson! I love that band.

[@blankface4916]

Hope you stay at the wigwam motel when you get to California. That’s a Route 66 staple

[@Corgis175]

Really enjoy your stops and sharing. Getting closer to Santa Monica.

[@sangeronimoband9018]

I like your show....as in the daily woo....you guys have a good heart...and is very enjoyable

[@karentucker2161]

I love them both, daze with Jordan the lion and Grimmlifecollective are pretty good too. I watch all 4 of them.

[@randygyulay5114]

Keep on truckin'. You are entertaining all of us.

[@austingreen127]

What a cool hotel! Also, that Ronald Reagan burger has the most unusual side I’ve ever seen! 😆

[@keeshalafaye9074]

Dinner and the drink was perfect! 🌯🍹🙂

[@missdaisy5736]

I hope you love the hotel and Jane Fonda is one of my favorite people as an actress and as a spokesperson she is very talented. Your food looked wonderful. And I must say I am not a car person either but there were some real beauties you showed in your video 🎹🙋🏻‍♀️

[@dpfljr]

Unfortunately, according to many Vietnam era GIs, Ms Fonda knowingly turned information given to her by American GIs over to their NVA captors, so I would be wary of using that room again

[@Segafishy]

I had to look it up but yes Jane and Henry are related, Henry is both her and Peter Fonda's father, sadly only Jane is still around. I don't think I've seen a Cigarette machine in the metal in about 10 years now, I know they'd been popular for conversion to stuff like candy or art as you've seen a lot at installations but in these parts they just seem to be scrapped along with a lot of drink machines (I get those all purpose ones are more cost effective but theres just something cool about walking up to a glowing Coke or Pepsi sign), even the Gumball types haven't faired well being swapped for Gacha ones.

[@dellahaloo8415]

🥳🥳👉🏼👏🏼👏🏼🤘🏼👍🏼✊🏼 glad you made it to Gallup 🤩!! Safe travels 💯

[@prussiaaero1802]

Really enjoying this series. Hi from Australia.

[@karentucker2161]

The whole video is so good! The most interesting thing to me was the excel and the car museum.

[@folfielukather8083]

route 66 runs behind my house, theres an abandoned trucker/biker resturaunt/stop, its a 3 minute walk

[@MrOlsono]

Pop from the Pittsburgh area clear out west in a gas station when we cant even find it here. how ironic haha, Love your vids keep up the good work!

[@Appropriator]

How many air fresheners does your Chevy need after all those beans???👻😊

[@greydongle1649]

I might just have to go get some dog house today! On your way back east you should stop in for some lunch at Green Jeans Farmery! It's a food court built out of shipping containers! Great beer great food and just a fun experience!

[@vonyinzer]

Great series! Fun bit off info, Red Ribbon soda is made in Pittsburgh!