The Desert Bus (A Southwestern Ramble)

[@buried_u]

"The problem with reality is that we so rarely get a chance to go out and see it for ourselves." Amen.

[@tiksu]

Lö lppl pmm llön pmm lmppl påå påmöåöö ömålååå

[@Edax_Royeaux]

Cause it's so goddamn expensive and you'll piss off your boss if you miss work.

[@limcw6092]

@@Edax_Royeaux amen to that too!

[@halokinger]

I cried when you said around the 45 minute mark that you were doing what you wanted to do, because you decided you wanted to do it.. or, something along those lines. Fuck. I'm only twenty-three and I haven't even experienced that yet since I took the reigns of handling my niece for the last.. Seven years. Low wage work, every day. Tuning out, every day. From straight As in high school ready for scholarships and college, to working in a Deli for nine bucks an hour because when theres a child to feed, an education can be put on the backburner for immediate money. Fuck, I'll have that someday. Bet on it. Thanks for uploading.

[@broadcaststsatic]

I'm sorry to hear you've been struggling so much. I don't quite know how to advise a way out of it besides holding on to something that means something-- it still feels like a freak accident that I managed it. I wish you weren't carrying such a burden but it sounds like you're carrying it for very selfless reasons.

[@halokinger]

It's fine, I love her to death but it isn't exactly how I intended life to turn out, but it's nice to hear of someone who actually has worked these jobs in the service industry. "It felt like pizza was all I was." I know this might come off as strange but it's sort of unique to see someone who has this perspective so flagrantly in a multitude of their videos, and I would be lying if it wasn't a major draw alongside everything else. Still, apologies for the sappiness and boo-hoos, I appreciate the uploads for what they can give me for an hour or two every day after work.

[@huwguyver4208]

I've done my time on the shit job circuit as well but now I am finally in a job I enjoy. It's probably easier here in Australia because we have a decent minimum wage and government subsidised university fees, but I still remember my time living paycheck to paycheck like it was yesterday. Hopefully in time you'll find a way forward and things will work out for you as well.

[@thomascheckie2394]

@@broadcaststsatic thank you for your advice. I'm still looking for something that has meaning to me but artists like you make me certain it must be out there somewhere.

[@orpheus6968]

if you don't mind me asking, how are you doing nowadays? I'm kinda in the same roadblock as you were...

[@Wandering_Boots]

You are my favourite nomadic games writer I've ever had the pleasure of listening to.

[@wuwei473]

Boots have you heard of any other nomad game writers?

[@drop_messages6226]

I was under the impression he lived in a 4 wall home somewhere, then he said he lived in his vehicle. I lived in my car for 6 months to save money. I stayed local because I had a office job, plus between doing laundry at a laundrimat, showering at a gym and charging my cell phone at coffee shops, did not have a lot of time to travel. Being a nomadic game writer....... that is interesting.

[@DigitalNomad88]

48:06 Simon is so happy! He's got a smile on his face! What a wonderful adventure he's on! He's happy because you are happy and you remember being happy with him! ❤

[@oldladyhater]

this is, without exaggeration, the best KZbin video i have ever had the pleasure of watching.

[@Craig-gq9wd]

Yeah žxq sass@I l

[@tracertong3229]

God. That was astonishingly beautiful Noah. Thank you.

[@jamesgorman5692]

Tracertong322 I think it's really breathtaking.

[@hayk3000]

@@jamesgorman5692 YOU'RE BREATHTAKING

[@larsmarsh7181]

Truly bummed this isn't an hour long retrospective of Penn & Teller's Desert Bu...oh never mind

[@franklinblankenship8991]

Lars Marsh that's why *I* came...

[@puellanivis]

But isn’t it?

[@PCIZ503]

This is gorgeous. Growing up raised in (and by) digital spaces and video games, the awe of openness that previous generations found mundane, "unmooring" yourself so that you can explore and the absurd difficulty of doing so... it's American. That's an adjective that shifts constantly, and praises upon every artist that manages to provide such a true, if temporary definition of it.

[@mokomothman5713]

That's the beauty of what it means to be "American". Just like the promise offered to immigrants at Ellis Island, you can be whatever you want, You can be American in any way you so desire. The fact that we can decide is what makes us free.

[@bugbitesquared5319]

I just watched Noah's Atomic Pilgrimmage video before this, and I swear to Atomic Jesus he needs to be on a couple PBS specials

[@perfidy1103]

"... but accessible in a way that's compatible with either a full time job or deep depression." So true. For me it was the latter. I remember feeling a sense of sadness when *Cataclysm* came out. I had long since stopped playing WoW and had no intention of playing it again, but somehow the knowledge that many of the places I had exactly the sort of experience you describe were gone forever (or so I thought) still effected me. Sure, Desolace was kinda a badly designed zone that everyone hated: but I still built up memories of it.

[@ClanJAX]

I have ADD, and it's really hard for me to do one thing at a time. Always has been. I always have at least two screens in front of me at any given time when I'm alone: my laptop on the coffee table, and the TV on the wall in front of me. No matter how hard I try, I cannot do just one thing at a time: I need to have something playing on KZbin or Netflix while I'm playing games on my PS4, or I have to browse Twitch or watch Hulu on the big screen when I'm browsing the internet or playing something on Steam. I *love* books, but I can't touch them outside of airplanes, bathrooms, or the break room at work because of this, so a novel takes me ages to work through. I mention all of this because, as you can imagine, it's been a long time since I've just sat down to do one thing when I've been on my own. But I recently discovered your channel and I've been bingeing my way through it, mindlessly playing Dark Souls and Monster Hunter while I listen... until this video. Man, I don't know what it is, but this video in particular is speaking to me in a way I rarely experience. I haven't touched my PS4 controller in a long time, and the only break I've taken so far was to get up and make dinner. I'm not even bouncing my leg the way I always tend to do when I'm understimulated (much to the chagrin of anyone who sits next to me in a movie theater... or to my cat, who sits next to me on the couch). This video has just captivated me in a way few things can, speaks to all of my most base needs and desires. This is how I love to look at the world, and how I wish I could on a more frequent basis; it's why my ideal career path is a video-game-writer-slash-novelist-slash-park-ranger, but even that doesn't quite speak to my adventurous, vagabond impulses. But, man, everything about this is beautiful. The incomprehensible ancientness of the world, the beauty in it all, the people and civilizations that have risen and fallen with little a story to tell... You capture it all so wonderfully and simply here, in a way that comes off feeling effortless. All of this really takes me back to moments I remember from being a teenager, in those instants that you can look back on and it's like peering through all the layers and layers of depression and mental illness and trauma and history and quirks you've gathered, and seeing yourself at your innermost core. It reminds me of those times when I really started figuring out who I was as a person, before all of that got overwritten by life getting in the way. This speaks to all of the conversations I had with friends on summer nights out under the stars about the age and scope of the universe, it speaks to that *feeling* I got, and still get, whenever I land on an uncharted world in the first Mass Effect, it speaks to all these little, tiny things that in some way make me deep-dive into who I am as a person, what I look to gain from the world around me, what sorts of people and concepts I cling on to the hardest, and so on. And it's surreal, really, sitting here and getting all of this from a KZbin video, even more so that I'm able to sit here and stare and do nothing else, something that's been near-impossible for me to do for the last decade of my life. My girlfriend and I love going on road trips; I moved from the east coast all the way out to California to be with her, and we both expected we'd be going on more, but time and money has gotten in the way, and though I've been living here almost a year we've only managed a few. But on those few, and on all the ones we managed when I was able to visit in the years beforehand, this is exactly how I felt: completely and utterly awed and inspired by the alienness and nigh-incomprehensibility of the massive, ancient, beautiful elements of the west coast. It's nothing like anything I've seen back home by the Atlantic. I hope we'll be able to manage more of these road trips soon (it'll be easier when I get my license; I grew up in a major metropolitan area right outside of DC, so I never bothered to learn to drive). For now, these videos are going to keep me going. Come for the game reviews, stay for these utterly *gorgeous* and truly captivating travellogs, I guess. Because, really, you've managed to capture something special here. Spectacular, even. This even focus you give to the mundane, and to the overwhelming, and to all the little moments, it sends my imagination running wild. It paints a gorgeous picture of life on the road, and of exploring the southwest, and that's all *before* the actual video itself. This video feels tangible in a way that's hard to put to words. Ultimately, I'm just really glad that I found your channel. My girlfriend and I are already planning to head to Joshua Tree some day soon, but this has added a whole lot more to my list of sights to see.

[@hayk3000]

What an excellent comment, thank you for sharing that.

[@FeetLavers69]

You got a tldr? See, i have extreme add.

[@TheOutlawed1000]

You are the only person on KZbin that could get me to click on a video with that FUCKING TITLE.

[@shaikadish4509]

DefectiveConscience he's also the only person on KZbin who could make an amazing video with that title

[@falconJB]

I take it you've never watched LoadingReadyRun?

[@ingwerschwensen8115]

J B LRR Never heard of it. Looked them up, and been watching their videos for hours now!

[@binnes117]

I can't even explain how comforting your travel videos are. Thank you 💗

[@baconinvader]

The best part was when your dog didn't die

[@panelsofDOOM]

Noah! I'm so proud of you right now! as a fan for a few years I can't explain how great it is that you've finally gotten to do this trip. it's a great experience I'm happy to share through this video. and remember, don't let the bastards grind you down.

[@177omii]

I always look forward to your videos. That feeling of discovery and travel is something I truly adore and to see your passion and drive for it in such a thorough and whole-hearted way with such a unique perspective just adds to the quality and soul of your videos. Your personality is a rare one nowadays but it's the type that I strived for when I was little. Smart, resourceful, a drive for discovery and self sufficiency- it's something truly special. I don't idolize you, but I love what you do and how you look at things. Thanks

[@breedlove94]

One of the interesting aspects of Big Bend National Park is how everything within the park (aside for the NPS facilities) has been frozen in time for 70-80 years perserved by the dry air/ There are jacales filled halfway up with soil, the structure of a mercury mining complex and even a 100 year old ore terminal with the buckets, cables, and even the wooden posts still standing. But nature is slowly, but surely reclaiming the area. I damn near got bit by a rattlesnake on that ore terminal trail. It was quite an adrenaline boost

[@magnus75damkier]

If aliens find Earth abandoned and dead, I want this video to be the last surviving human recording.

[@Bobman-ml5qf]

Oh hell yes! Or video of how to remember Earth, especially the Southwest, when humans venture off into deep space and leave Earth.

[@Touhou2006]

1 year later: Let's raid area 52

[@George-zj9rr]

This whole channel is a treasure.

[@charlieni645]

To be fair, California City looks like a heavenly place for first time drivers.

[@charliekassyk8357]

Noah, you are an absolute stone-cold, iron-clad, twenty four carat legend. The stuff you're getting up to and your take on it all warms my heart. Big love from Scotland :)

[@diegomorenillo]

I'm from Colombia, I don't particularly like any authors that like to talk about traveling, and I don't want to go to North America anytime soon. Why am I enjoying this video so much? Hello?

[@zetetick395]

Haha well if life was *completely* understandable, all the time.....It would get SERIOUSLY boring, pretty flippin' quick!

[@doubleru]

Because Noah has an awesome talent to spark your interest in things you have never considered even remotely interesting.

[@tsartomato]

because it condenses all the interesting parts from a big chunk of the year and sprinkled it with distilled research on topics, personal anecdotes and opinions journey's greatest hits

[@samgeorge4798]

you are the only Chanel that I would dedicate a hour to listen to somebody rambel about driving through the desert.

[@TheUnspokenKibbles]

I usually come to Mr. Gervais for his insightful and engaging game critiques from a perspective I've not been exposed to, but damn if he isn't just as good a travel writer as he is a fiction critic. As a both longtime fan of the crew that puts on Desert Bus For Hope and a lifetime lover of new experiences, I found this especially interesting.

[@jibb1451]

My family history was always, tumultuous. On three separate occasions we found ourselves trekking across the expanses of the US to live in other places, and these journeys would usually take days by car. I tend to forget the wide open feeling of looking out your window as the tires hum against the sun battered blacktop, the distant sky fading to a vibrant orange crimson as you coast alone through the greatness that is nature. No signs of other human life. No buildings. No cars. No power lines or planes. Just, emptiness. A void filled with nature, and you. That feeling of your vehicle containing all you own. All those you love. In that moment you feel both wholly puny in the face of mother earth, and entirely grateful for what you can call your family, and your home. Grateful that you won the lottery that landed you living, breathing, and coasting along a highway towards a sunset most won't be able to see. I tend to forget the nights of uncomfortable camping in my dingy tent out in Wyoming, staring up at the night sky devoid of light pollution, and being able to truly actually SEE the billions of stars above for the first time, and hear the wind growling over the hills plains softly. It is in these moments that something just, clicks. Your mind drifts away from your 'life' you lead before you reached the wilderness, and an otherwise dormant peaceful side emerges that soaks it all in. A side you never really see unless you take the steps to really get out there away from this thing we call the modern world. This video helped remind me of that. Thank you!

[@MrMalimer]

"It was like taking a dump on the mouth of hell." Fucking perfect description.

[@dangdudei1506]

I am from norway and know close to nothing about the landscape in the US. Your journey through america let me see a side of the US I never get to see elsewhere. Thanks Noah :D

[@bastionboi6552]

Take note that this is only one man’s journey of a *small corner* of the states. Although there’s no better person than Noah to encapsulate it in words.

[@brendanwhittaker7263]

As someone with a head full of dreams, and hands full of dishes that need washing, you inspire me, sir. Truly.

[@hamandvaid]

The graphics on this driving game are amazing Noah. Minimal pop up, superb lighting and texturing, good job. :) LOVE YOUR WORK!!!

[@henryfrigon9382]

Noah is one of my favorite authors, and I consistently come back to this piece.

[@Freelance170]

Man, I legit almost cried in one or two spots. You are an amazing writer, and a great speaker. Very well spoken. I'm glad that I get to listen to your hour long videos, about games or not.

[@Matroxxtriste]

Been rewatching your work from my sick bed. You've kept me company in sweat soaked nights of long discomfort. Morphia for my wounded soul. Thank you.

[@Caradepato]

This, amigo, is poetry. You are a poet, Noah, and I respect you for it. You made me long for travel (which granted, isn't very hard) and so I have arranged to walk along one of the rivers of my country from its source to its mouth this autumn.

[@stillberning]

Your videos and especially these road trip videos are some of the most beautiful and soothing things I have ever encountered. Thank you for helping me through the darkness.

[@DuckAlertBeats]

Incidentally, yours are the best videos on the telly! Peace from the UK

[@asimpledevice]

we now live vicariously through you, noah.

[@WampaLord]

This video is truly amazing, Noah, and I'm very glad you have the opportunity to explore and travel. Keep on trucking, brother.

[@TheBionicfury]

I find myself drawn to watching the opening of this video so frequently. There is nothing like the driving through the Southwest. I"m so glad I got to do it last year.

[@chungusbooper]

I have only two quibbles: The plural of cactus is cacti, and the plural of oasis is oases. This production was an absolute beaut.

[@iaminterface0101]

"it was like taking a dump on the mouth of hell, as the warm evil shit wind blew with it a plague of flies" is perhaps the most eloquent description of dealing with outdoor bathrooms i've ever heard

[@carrot92]

I'm so happy that you're still making videos

[@nfijef]

Never gets old. I'm lucky enough to have spent a long time on the road, and have been to alot of these places, and many more, but it's been awhile and you are reminding me what I'm missing. SO glad you have this opportunity, and share it so eloquently with us. Peace and safe travels you guys, thanks for taking us along. :)

[@odinzan]

My favorite thing about your travel videos is that each one teaches me about a dozen new amazing places in my own country that I had never even heard of before seeing the video

[@riker148]

[@kluless5595]

Wish you could travel far and beyond. -from China with love

[@Asurnasurpal]

All of your videos are tiny little masterpieces, but this one always brings me to tears. Never stop exploring, for those of us who can't.

[@oberstul1941]

Wow, man, that bit at the end, what you said, I thought it was so beautiful that it hurt - that when you return, you take your travels home with you and they do not fit comfortably into drawers and closets. Having not once felt that travel bug gnawing at me, I could understand perfectly. Thank you for a wonderful travel log. Cheers!

[@linda-g7x6e4]

this is an important video, thank you for your time in creating it

[@possumwilly]

Fantastic! Loved the Dark Tower referencing about the world moving on.

[@zxtenn]

WOW, YOU SURE HAVE SOME BEAUTIFUL PICTURES WITH THE NARRATION TO GO ALONG WITH IT MY FRIEND, VERY TALENTED IN THAT AREA!!!! WATCHING A FEW OF THESE AND THE MERCURY VIDEO MAKES ME WANT TO TOUR THE COUNTRY ROUGHING IT IN MY 2019 HYUNDAI ELANTRA 6 SPEED MANUAL WITH UNDER 6000 MILES AS I WRITE THIS

[@raevick]

Your trip and the phenomenal imagery as well as how you look at life has inspired my wife and I to go travelling as well. thank you for this new lease on life.

[@KIZILLORD]

Inspriational, beautifull. Roland's mention made it just better.

[@Shakespeare563]

God damn man, that rumination at the end nearly brought me to tears. I don't know if I could live the kind of life you and your wife are but man do your videos make me want to try

[@15awesomehighfive]

Such a great live performance by Portugal. The Man.

[@lalabox]

Finally set aside the time to watch this and it is fantastic and insightful and above all incredibly human. About a year ago I went of a camping trip with my dad in the northern territory of Australia. It wasn't quite as dramatic as what you've done. Only 3 weeks and we hired out a 4wd campervan, and had a general idea of the places we wanted to visit on the 3000km road from Alice Springs to Darwin. And the roads out there don't have as many detours and offshoots. But still, you captured a lot of the sense of scale that you really feel when visiting these really remote places that are defined by their geographies. To stand somewhere and know that what you see in front of you has been created by several million years of geological forces and rain and erosion and seas and all sorts of things that make the small dirt roads there feel so incredibly insignificant. Valleys where upheavals in the terrain expose layers on layers of seabeds, all arranged to look almost like crashed starships. It's awe inspiring in a way that's really hard to articulate. To know that human history is but a tiny part of the overall history of these places, and that european history is an infinitesimally smaller part of even that. And it's unfortunate that this sort of travel something of a luxury that is relegated to either the well off or the very lucky.

[@Remwr]

Thanks for the update! I'd love to visit the Southwest someday.

[@anneetpixel]

Never thought I'd say that, but I think I like these roadtrip videos as much as the traditional video games one. I'm truly surprised, guess it's true what they say -- sometimes you don't know what you want. Ok now I want to go on a road trip too.

[@Aleteos]

I know it said THE END at the end, and you talked about a lot of the journey in past tense, but I really really do hope there's another hour and a half more of this.

[@samsmith3011]

Man that was a good video, watched it from beginning to end. It was like the other video were he did the west coast trip in a boat of a car were you float down and enjoy the ride. I hope to see more road trip videos while listening to your funny banter.

[@TheAtlas247]

I truly do admire what you are doing and wish that someday I could try something like this.

[@FortyBot]

Every video of yours that I manage to watch for more than a few minutes, I am captivated until the end. Thank you for this extensive look into a little of your soul.

[@hachmanno]

Noah, you have given me an extreme feeling of Fernweh with this. Wonderful video

[@achipinthesugar]

Bravo! Only just getting around to these, having exhausted the video game videos. Wonderful. Will listen again soon.

[@spaceiguana5066]

I actually grew up in Crested Butte, so when you got to talking about going over Monarch and all that, I got really excited as I know that area by memory better than I know what my pale knees look like

[@thunderpig9953]

You are my hero. I may never leave my own street, but I will damn well follow you all over the world!

[@harpersims]

This is beautiful and so refreshing! Thank you, Noah.

[@Fragtastik]

Can't wait until this road trip hits the midwest. He needs to see House on the Rock. It's a piece of Americana unlike any I've ever seen. The rules of the real world seem to strip away the deeper you go into it.

[@MiaJoBella]

Genuinely one of my favorite videos. Documentaries? Essays? I don't know, I don't care. This video calms endless anxiety and spurs endless thought

[@Noogi302]

I think you would absolutely love the Australian Outback and its coastal towns, to experience the changes as you travel inland and to meet the people scattered throughout.

[@huwguyver4208]

Eskai If Noah ever comes to Aus I want to buy him and his lady a beer! I can't get enough of these videos.

[@Paraneoz]

This was one of the best videos ive seen in a long time, thank you.

[@parshooter2in2]

I'm going to put this on low and go to sleep. I just had a shit day of work. Might give to your patreon.

[@roboiago]

parshooter2in2 with our luck they'll just find the Twitter museum next to Drumph tower.

[@Jericho297]

I still like coming back and rewatching this video. It’s just so nice to see the desert drive.

[@shiron222]

Never knew just how breathtaking our country is...

[@trevinverduzco9543]

I grew up in southwestern Colorado. Red Mountain Pass is an amazing drive. That pass is both awe-inspiring and terrifying when you navigate it's long and winding path.

[@echothebm]

Tru Internett you got freedom, tru skill you got freedom, tru a open mind you got freedom. Thanks for sharing you point of view, making me think more about the great mountains I have crossed, the lakes I have fished in, and the birds I have hunted. Thank you, and I hope you are happy and forever curious.

[@GingerStrawhat]

Welcome to my home of Colorado (though you are probably already gone). I like to think of us as the Buffett of America. We have mountains, we have snowy peaks, we have deserts and dunes, we have cities, we have foothills, we have forests. We have castles and caves and pueblos, lakes and rivers. Outside of the ocean we have at least a little bit of everything you may be looking for in America. I hope you enjoy/enjoyed your stay and I'm sorry about Jim Bishop. I felt the same way as you seem to have felt. Elated when I heard about how he built the castle and his devotion and immediacy in building it and it being in my own state and then I kinda found out what a rambling lunatic he kind of is and yeah I'm conflicted too.

[@majeflyer]

Thank you so much. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

[@danrestione6983]

Awesome and inspiring and amusing in equal degrees. As beautiful as it is to see the land swimming by your windows is watching two people ( and one furry bastard) living their dream!

[@crcox87]

Just a thank you for creating these travel-logs. I keep coming back to them, and have a different perspective on my own country by sharing in your experience.

[@stevensvideorivival6489]

Amazing video! I'm 16 now and my biggest dream is doing a roadtrip trough the USA (I am living in germany). So thank you for sharing your adventure with us :)

[@ellysiar]

Noah, I actually prefer your travel videos to your game videos. It's always such a treat to see them! Thanks for this!

[@paulaposul142]

Truly an excellent video, may your bus be sturdy and may your internet connection be plentiful!

[@SusanMiles]

wow. i'm very impressed with the content you're putting out, can't believe i enjoyed this so much. thanks for the lovely images, thoughtful words and the opportunity to join your journey for awhile. side note - i'm from texas, goodness it was nice to really see west texas and new mexico again for the first time in 20 years. :)

[@FullOfLethons]

I finished learning how to drive in a VW Microbus from California to Louisiana and back. I remember that feeling of slopes I couldn't see, and my surprise the first time the wind took the frame. I learned how to draft off semis up to speeds that you really shouldn't take a VW bus to in White Sands, where the straight flat road was friendly to the aged machine. We took 20 and not many byways, but the vehicle broke down in Albuquerque, so I had an unplanned while there while we fixed it. I'm used to coastal California and how it's almost never an hour from one microclimate to the next. The sheer immensity of Texas was a revelation to me, as was the vigorous green of Louisiana.

[@flowermaze___]

Very much look forward to when you set out again! So good. Much inspire.

[@eumoria]

I love your writing, friend. The light touch and sober presentation is perfect for the landscape... Extra Credits brought me here for the game stuff but what I found instead is a true artist trying to find meaning. Thanks for these videos :)

[@MusiCVideosRus1]

Noah I have been silently following you for some time now and this video shook me and brought me to tears. Thank you

[@afluffywhitekitty8589]

Just here to say again, love your videos, your voice is great and your articulate analytical ramblings are fascinating.

[@youzz33]

The place where you are at 5:13 seconds! My Girlfriend and I drove that exact road last year. Its right near the Salton Sea! We both lost cell reception in that spot and we both thought we were going to get murdered on that road lol. Cool to see that you've been there Noah!

[@broadcaststsatic]

Yeah, figuring out how to get out of that town makes you doubt it's a throughway for sure.

[@stephen_in_space174]

You are what a writer, youtuber, and game commentator should be, an inspirational, measured voice without the clickbait bullshit of our sad internet world. Just intellect and experience, amazing as usual Noah.

[@selkieskins]

This is one of my favourite videos on KZbin. Every section is interesting, and it has momentum without urgency-I feel that's something that non-fiction rarely manages. It hasn't even been up for a month yet, but I know it's something I'm going to keep coming back to.

[@truthseek3017]

This was amazing, man. I love road tripping to ancient places in America, they are all over the place!

[@geoffzephyrus9849]

So happy to hear how your life has changed for the better.

[@elsanto2401]

Thanks for visiting New Mexico. Because there are so few people living here, its near impossible to find any acknowledgement that we exist

[@welltemperedclavier819]

For some reason I just never really got around to watching your travel videos. Blame video game myopia, I suppose. But now that I have, let me just say that I regret waiting so long. This was an absolutely fascinating ramble through the American Southwest. The sheer messiness and complexity of the real world (and the better digital open worlds) is that there's just too much to really incorporate into a single, simple narrative. By necessity, any account has to be a bit patchwork, jumping from place to place, story to story, showing the odd connections between them. And that's one of the reasons I love your approach in this video. You relate your explorations at your leisure, as curiosity dictates, in much the same way you seem to have experienced them. I hope that you keep doing videos on games. That said, if you were to ever change gears, I think you could build a whole career off of travelogue videos such as this one. I'll definitely be watching your other travel videos.

[@joaovlzou]

This is your best video. Well, at least considering the videos I've already watched. The ending is as beautiful as the pictures. cheers from brazil.

[@Brudlee]

Watching one of your videos is certainly an endeavour indeed, and often I find myself adding it to my favourites list and having to return back to it throughout the week and watch it in 10 minute blocks. They're certainly entertaining and very fun to listen to while playing games, especially American Truck Simulator which funny enough tries to emulate the feeling of the open road. Very good videos, keep up the great work!

[@whatisup4811]

Dude those leaches in that pool have been there for a long, long, long time. Thousands of a unique species of leaches living in a dusty arsenic-ridden pond in the middle of the desert. That's hardcore.

[@levil.2734]

I’m very late to the party on this - but as an AZ native who spends a lot of time driving desert roads commuting between remote construction sites - thank you. The place I live in is as absurd as it is hostile but by god, is it beautiful

[@TheOwlslayer]

Well that was fascinating to listen to (and to watch, too!).

[@cowboy4187]

This is such a wonderful video. Love your work!