Great American Road Trip Timelapse - New York to Los Angeles

Note: KZbin muted the whole video because of a copyright claim over one song. I'm working on a solution.
In April 2016, my friends and I drove from New York City to Los Angeles over nine days - making stops in Washington, DC, Nashville, St. Louis, Kansas City, Colorado Springs, Monument Valley, the Grand Canyon, Las Vegas, and Death Valley. We had a dashcam recording the whole time. This is the entire trip, at 20x speed.
Tracklist:
0:04 Lotus Plaza - Strangers
4:35 Lotus Plaza - Dusty Rhodes
8:12 Parquet Courts - Stoned and Starving
13:30 Allman Brothers - Midnight Rider
16:25 Steve Miller Band - Jet Airplane
20:03 Bill Wilson - Pay Day Give Away
24:03 Kurt Vile - Pretty Pimpin’
29:31 Beach Fossils - Taking Off
32:40 Diiv - Doused
36:20 My Bloody Valentine - Come In Alone
40:19 New Order - Age of Consent
45:34 Diiv - Follow
48:19 Wild Nothing - Only Heather
51:35 Wild Nothing - This Chain Won’t Break
55:18 TV on the Radio - Wolf Like Me
59:57 Courtney Barnett - Avant Gardener
1:05:09 The Limiñanas - La Mélancolie
1:08:50 The Dramatics - What You See Is What You Get
1:12:52 Bobbie Gentry - He Made a Woman Out of Me
1:15:15 Dixie Chicks - Wide Open Spaces
1:19:10 Steve Earle - Devil’s Right Hand
1:21:45 John Fahey - Poor Boy Long Way From Home (Live in Hamburg)
1:26:35 New Jackson - Having a Coke With You
1:37:06 Beach Fossils - Ascension
1:38:35 QUILT - Cowboys in the Void
1:44:00 Women - Locust Valley
1:48:14 Billy Nichols - Winter Rose
1:52:31 John Denver - Rocky Mountain High
1:57:23 Eagles - Peaceful Easy Feeling
2:01:42 Faces - Ooh La La
2:05:10 The Band - The Weight
2:09:44 Steve Miller Band - Rock ’n Me
2:12:53 Pure Prairie League - Amie
2:17:16 Arlo Guthrie - Going Home
2:21:00 Avid Dancer - Long Journey
2:24:33 Allah Las - Busmans Holiday
2:28:03 Link Wray - Fire and Brimstone
2:32:21 Elvis Presley - Walk A Mile in My Shoes
2:35:12 Eddy “The Chief” Clearwater - Back Down to Earth
2:38:03 Allah Las - No Werewolf
2:40:35 Johnny Cash - If I Were A Carpenter
2:43:37 Johnny Cash - I’ve Been Everywhere
2:46:49 Bobby Womack - No Money in My Pocket
2:49:50 Bobby Womack - California Dreamin’
2:53:08 Dr. Dre - Still Dre

[@mukhumor]

Hats off to the men who built those roads.

[@issac9930]

My absolute favorite part about road trips irl is the like "build up" to whatever city your headed to. The gradual change in the world around you, and then all of a sudden you're there, in a totally different city with it's own climate, vibes, and people.

[@magsearnshaw9126]

Isaac Detherage if u live in la in the winter it is still sunny u drive to New York ur just like WOO SNOW

[@janetplanet4595]

I know right! when you get there it's like WHAT!!!? how did this even happen? All this was out there!!

[@radicequadratadi2]

I perfectly understand what you mean. You're right, it's beautiful. Passing from the countryside to the most external suburbs and from there to centre of the city is just amazing!

[@WAYerz]

Someone get's it! Especially the build up to passing through major cities in the states you're passing in!

[@scotticarbs6072]

Exactly that's what I'm saying. I love it! Now I just wish they would make a video traveling across America with the outside temperature fluctuating through the whole time lapse and go from a Northern State to a Southern state in middle of winter time

[@jaydenswift9856]

My favorite part of these cross country trips is when after driving through flatlands for so long the Rocky Mountains appear out of nowhere and they are massive!

[@scottpardee6303]

When my son was getting an MBA at Stanford, we drove across country twice from NY to Palo Alto, once on route 80 and the other time on Route 90, with three overnight stops each time. It was a wonderful experience. I hope this tour moves others to find an excuse to do the same. America is a beautiful, diverse, and peaceful country. Thank you for screening this.

[@husker11744]

Well done but would have been better if there were information about what highway your on and locations.

[@scotticarbs6072]

And li outside temp

[@Mac_Omegaly]

Starts off heading south on some highway, then hits NJ Turnpike. Crosses the Delaware memorial bridge, and takes I-95 to Baltimore. Takes one of the tunnels, and takes the north belt around DC exiting in the Bethsesda area. Not far from the NIH. After that, is out of my neck of the woods. I am sure If someone took the time they could slow down the video and follow on a map.

[@peter_karl]

They probably don't know themselves. Just "follow the gps and drive" kind of people.

[@slashdesigner]

Thank you for sharing this! I felt a sense of a trip. I missed it so much.

[@jacobdodson728]

Now imagine doing that, without the roads, in a wooden wagon pulled by a horse. Try to understand just how incredible of a journey that would have been for the pioneers who migrated West. Wow.

[@bigenginejoe4213]

Loved the video! Fascinating! Would be cool if you would caption on the video when each state and city was visited.

[@jaydenswift9856]

That would be awesome! I recognized a few like Kansas and Colorado and of course the ones near NY and Cali but it gets a bit lost between PA and the western part of the Midwest. Kansas is the really flat one in the middle where it's just grass and sky, then the grass turns deserty in Co, and the Rockies rise out of the horizon. Sometimes if you pause at stoplights you can reed the plates of other cars assuming they aren't out of state. You can also see Monument valley I believe from Arizona (it looks like Thunder Mt from Disney) and Vegas with the Monorail

[@janetplanet4595]

I have to admit on trips like this It's almost like bragging just driving around with my way out of state plates and a car covered in dirt. It's like anyone can tell you really made the trek. I wanna take a pic one day of my NY plate in a desert covered in sand dust

[@jstvns961]

Allah Las, Kurt Vile, Beach Fossils and Parquet Courts? Amazing playlist for an amazing video!

[@njnjnjsg699]

I am about to make this drive from NJ to LA. This video was awesome to watch.

[@jackygivens2266]

awesome I love to try that coast to coast crusin!!😎😎😎

[@Caseytheradioguy]

DUDE did you hit any traffic!!! wow great video buddy

[@michaelmann-jw9op]

thank you

[@ibnmianal-buna3176]

That is amazing

[@IOTechnology155]

21:15 tank transporter!

[@HikariSakai]

that would be 2 M2A3 Bradley's ;)

[@anotherworld3460]

Amazing

[@buhawipasaf6234]

Im doing my cross country road trip in 3 mos from ct to oregon lol nervous and xcited at the same time.

[@Crazydaytripper]

I am going to do this one day! I also do full road trip videos and I am adding all the time :) but one day I want to go from Key West to Alaska :)

[@JonathanCox2000]

better know about Kilometers scince you gotta go through Canada

[@willgregg1076]

I want to do a trip like that in a Barracuda

[@user-wx4nv8xr3d]

it deserves millions of views !

[@user-wx4nv8xr3d]

hey sup XD

[@bruce122046]

It won'r get many views because there is no captioning in the video that tells one where you are, not a single effort to caption major junctions or places, losing!

[@user-wx4nv8xr3d]

@@bruce122046 less is more

[@unclecoolie]

@@bruce122046 I agree, and after viewing videos like this (that could've been great), I made my videos with captioning, and later on, with GPS information, so that the viewer would know exactly where they were while viewing. I wish the Norway train ride videos had that exact same information.

[@user-wx4nv8xr3d]

@@unclecoolie I'm your subscriber, your vids are beyond cool! i find both this video and your road trip across America that has the most views equally fascinating but for sure having a map and time would improve this one a lot, i would imagine these two 'widgets' are essential for any road trip but not that i'm interested in any other information

[@Vichustlinnn]

this takes a while to do. We should all give great comments in the comment zone instead of bad ones :)

[@HikariSakai]

I just listen to a couple hour long Drum & Bass mixes while watching this :)

[@manusharma875]

I like the video. Better if you had included a placelist in place of or with a tracklist. Good job otherwise!

[@thecoolannishatk.]

Went from Boston to New York in 4 hours

[@janetplanet4595]

I wish they'd label all the states. One day they have to!

[@kakt]

2:05:10 so beautiful

[@NoName-ms8jb]

Some people think you're crazy.

[@kryptonj8]

crazy how much of the country is just roads and open land

[@unexplainablyjuicy9829]

what I hope to do in my future someday. also I did something like this on Google maps, I went from Albuquerque New Mexico to Los Angeles California, took me 2 days.

[@gregjakobtyler]

1:28:43 I broke down there! We had to walk 5 miles to the next town!

[@5staryzzz]

Damn

[@805NAVE]

Having lived in LA my whole life, the farthest east I've ever been is Flagstaff Arizona lol, I go to Vegas frequently but I've never been any farther than that.

[@australianpatriot]

ur a desert man

[@mart3119]

37:15 flash of lightning

[@spursh3659]

Great video man.....i liked it...which route you took

[@scotticarbs6072]

If you can do a time-lapse video going in from the Northern State and to the southern states in the middle of winter time with the outside temperature fluctuating as you're driving

[@richardjones8952]

Last night I watched this entire video. All nearly three hours of it. One of the parts I found particularly disturbing was the convoluted routing between I-70 in the plains of Western Kansas and Colorado Springs. A direct route would simply be to follow I-70 to Limon and then US 24 to Colorado Springs. x This morning I have taken the time to view this segment of the video on my laptop and was able to break down the actual route as follows. x Exit I-70 at Exit 76 to US 40 West, Oakley Follow US 40 West to Cheyenne Wells. (Stops at Sinclair and Kwik Korner Service Stations) Follow US 40 West to US 287 at Kit Carson Follow US 40 - US 287 multiplex North West to Colorado 94 Follow Colorado 94 West to (Break in Video) Lincoln County Route 109 North to US 40 - US 287 multiplex at Hugo Follow US 40 - US 287 multiplex North West to Hugo Loaf and Jug Follow US 40 - US 287 multiplex North West to US 24 at Limon (Crossing I-70 2x on the east side of Limon) Follow US 24 West to Woodman Road at Falcon. Follow Woodman Road West to Rangewood Drive Follow Rangewood Drive South to Woodland Hills Drive x From Woodland Hills Drive the route goes into a residential neighborhood of no particular interest to either road enthusiasts or travelers. I may come back later an fill in a few more "blanks" in some parts of this video such as the less than direct route between Nashville and St. Louis or the convoluted routing between Pahrump and Mojave. x If anyone wonders what the "x"s are for, for some reason this comment wants to post as a single block of text, even when I put in spaces between lines.

[@electropainted]

wow amazing plotting...u NSA? ha ha. i wondered why the detour from interstate as well but they must have had personal reasons. didn't seem to improve the scenery but in any case interesting super fast trip cross country

[@Chamarie]

keep safe po kaibigan

[@86Michaelk]

1:37:36 omg that heaven looks gorgeous

[@user-um9hg1yi4m]

КРАСАВЧИК !

[@NoName-ms8jb]

Fun road game when driving through upper Appalachia: Count how many Sheetz stations you see. They are around every corner.

[@dennismanbook]

And in the most of the Midwest especially in smaller towns like in Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri there’s all the Casey’s stations that seems to be the thing around here and I’m in one town with 4 of those stores

[@mortalkombat1712]

Imagine riding a Segway from New York City to Los Angeles

[@nikkikarlssonthetalkingtom870]

It took 2 hours and 56 minutes to end of the timelapse video.

[@maxengine6277]

37:19 Great Shelf cloud in 2016

[@ojasupadhye5561]

I'm usually very picky about the music I listen to, but somehow I like all the songs in this timelapse. Can you give me a list of these songs? Thanks!

[@iamthewalrus1599]

I'll be including a song list in the description - probably this weekend!

[@markwilson9618]

What roads did you take on your route?

[@carsonp.7009]

wow

[@sanguibangui2543]

j'était déconnecté mais tu m'oblige maintenant pour faire un like, j'aime beaucoup ce genre de musique

[@paymo14]

And I thought my trip from Maine to Maryland was long.

[@motherfuckabeats941]

ЭТО ШЕДЕВР

[@ARMOSPHERE]

самое странное что у данного видео так мало просмотров

[@eddellinger1780]

Damn, I hate that I couldn't hear the soundtrack. Utah was amazing tho'!

[@magsearnshaw9126]

Generally only watched this to find when it gets all rocky

[@janetmarlena6815]

it seems like this went through virginia for a while

[@LockedDownSpectator]

That FedEx truck keeps popping up...

[@issac9930]

Man, I'm in the middle of the country and have only travelled West from here, and the North-East just looks weird! I mean, like different, not necessarily bad. Like basically the NorthEast doesn't seem to have that huge, open, spread out, new type of feel compared to places like Dallas, Phoenix, Oklahoma City, etc.. Instead, it's older (not in a bad way), and more compact/mixed. Further west it's more seperated. Like huge malls here, houses over there.

[@ericmadx3063]

the north east is full of shmucks and racists that hate the hot sunny weather

[@victormanriquezjr7863]

Isaac Detherage im from Dallas and have travelled all over the states, the north east cities do look old and crowded its because they are historic, dont get me wrong there is some beautiful scenery like green mountains and trees in Pennsylvania and virginia, colorado has to be my favorite state, los Ángeles is Nice but southern Cali mountains feel dead and dry with little signs of life, all in all there are beautiful spots in every state

[@unexplainablyjuicy9829]

don't move to the North East, its boring as hell up here, I live in New York, I would love to move out West.

[@FreGZile]

nice video, could you give us the complete tracklist ? You seem to have very good taste in music :)

[@iamthewalrus1599]

Thanks! I plan to add a full tracklist and some more location info, once I find some time.

[@KRBISSONNETTE]

I'm planning on doing a cross country road trip in a month and was curious about whether to make a time lapse video like this. How did you record this, what was the process like?

[@christopherstephenson7199]

What route did you take across the rockies. Is that Monarch pass?

[@janetplanet4595]

Ps you passed the exit for Great Adventure Turn around!!

[@danieldulchevsky]

what dash cam did you use?

[@larremangerl776]

play it on 2x speed

[@sebastientumahai9560]

What city did u stop for the night early in the video?

[@jimmy41607]

what's your dashcam set up

[@MarklovesJoan]

Why ride the left lane? Otherwise awesome video, thanks for the upload!

[@acmenipponair]

In the USA there is not a law like "you have to stay on the most right lane as possible". Therefore they are constantly switching their positions.

[@joshmarsh2565]

How much did you pay in tolls?

[@ChrisFan890]

2:06:51 Welcome to Navajo Nation

[@papoopa5800]

Which car was this journey done with?

[@iamthewalrus1599]

We rented a Camry from the airport in Newark and returned it at LAX.

[@Unusedaccount451]

Newark?? So its NJ to LA not NY to LA?😂😂

[@MrPeterxxxxx]

If it is not a secret how much did you pay? I am willing to do this trip in August :) I used to live in the states ( Work and travel program ) and I have been there for six seasons and now 5 years later, I think that I should visit this lovely country again and do what I did not manage to do - East to West Coast trip :). See my friends, and see my second home, unfortunately so far from Europe :(

[@PabloCardinali]

Good work! What is the song name @1:44:00 ?, thank you

[@PabloCardinali]

Sorry the first song too, if you can.

[@iamthewalrus1599]

Thanks! That song is Women - Locust Valley.

[@iamthewalrus1599]

First song is Lotus Plaza - Strangers.

[@PabloCardinali]

Thankz !

[@jasan-xq2lk]

How did he get there in only 2 hours?

[@kristofsv2616]

How much money you spend at this trip? and how many miles you drive?

[@bruce122046]

Even playing this a quarter speed, it was next to impossible to read the road signs to figure out where you were. Some milestones would have been appreciated. I don't care as much about your playlist as I do about some mile posts.

[@2011Savere]

You should have put the states on the bottom of the screen of where you were entering.

[@MrRipRinus]

great video! What is the song @2:23:00 ? allah-las? i think?

[@iamthewalrus1599]

Thanks! It's an Allah-Las cover. soundcloud.com/jacobdillansummers/long-journey-allah-las-cover-by-avid-dancer

[@gustavoacosta215]

Idn how people like driving Curvy roads like that at highspeeds

[@PabloCardinali]

Track List? very good music !

[@iamthewalrus1599]

Just added! Thanks for your patience.

[@willllyum]

59:00 how did you get to St Louis without crossing the Mississippi River?

[@iamthewalrus1599]

We crossed at Cape Girdeau at 53:10. It was nice to get off the interstates for an hour or two.

[@txsasdx1188]

41:37 oggy

[@JGunz9191]

How much did this trip cost if you dont mind

[@iamthewalrus1599]

If I remember correctly it was around $2400 in total, split four ways. But the *vast* majority of that was the car rental, so if want to use your own car you can go cheaper.

[@Jacobhaliti]

@@iamthewalrus1599 thank you for sharing :) if you come to sweden i'll be happy to show you around

[@C-TOS]

Did you rented the car and then took a plane back? I am sort of apprehensive to do that to my car

[@iamthewalrus1599]

Yup, we rented and then flew back. We didn't want to drive all the way back and I don't own a car anyway.

[@tangina4494]

Do they have enough gas station? I mean you are not gonna. E worry about running out of gas. Thanks

[@trepo757]

What camera did you use?

[@iamthewalrus1599]

I used this dashcam www.amazon.com/gp/product/B018YRBQSK/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

[@glennzornig4978]

I did not know that John Trump's nephew went by the tag Vs. WOW

[@buyrcsp2]

Around 2 days of footage

[@HikariSakai]

rendering this video must of taken a good couple days lol

[@RoninNYC]

Days lmfao?

[@HikariSakai]

@@RoninNYC well yea you're crunching down tons of hours (pretty much days) of footage into 3 hours, that takes a long time to render all that (atleast in Adobe Premiere it does)

[@JonathanCox2000]

hey rob were you ever in west virginia

[@iamthewalrus1599]

Unfortunately not. We took 81 south through VA, so we were close but never made it over there.

[@demetriushill9725]

it seams to me that you was lost when u got to st.louis a lot of wasted travel i thought when left downtown u would get on I-44 west to tulsa and oklahoma city then take I-40 to california just me

[@helliyon]

Planning on going out one day, from Laredo to Tennessee to meet my boyfriend... In a few years anyways... suggestions on whether or not to record it?

[@iamthewalrus1599]

Yes definitely do it!

[@3506Dodge]

How does one country contain so much diversity?

[@unexplainablyjuicy9829]

we do our best.

[@3506Dodge]

@@unexplainablyjuicy9829 The US didn't create it. It claimed it. I'm wondering why the US has sustained it's national unity over so much distance and geographic diversity. Why isn't there a Confederate States of America, a Pacific States of America, a New England States of America, etc?

[@nullinvoid1415]

No music?

[@andrewryan2559]

2:14:38 he caught up to Walter white driving the RV to the desert lol

[@keine031]

Music?

[@Sabaleous]

minimal techno goes well with it...

[@confirmeddestiny3906]

2:54:44 trucks left others right

[@spccovingtontornadocoaster3660]

Did u go into a tornado warning 37:16 minutes into video

[@txsasdxroblox23]

41:37

[@txsasdxroblox23ltsc]

Nashville enter ❤❤❤❤❤

[@IslandBigfoot]

:)

[@raj2o170]

cool i want to make it in real life

[@sanguibangui2543]

02:50:00 the name of the song please

[@iamthewalrus1599]

Bobby Womack - California Dreamin'

[@sanguibangui2543]

2:38:08 name of that instru please

[@iamthewalrus1599]

Allah Las - No Werewolf

[@sanguibangui2543]

thanks

[@jasonsobolewski721]

They muted it because you deceptively combined good music with Indie basuda

[@nolanandtheplushies7031]

it looks like your in nevada lIKE HALF OF THE VIDEO

[@littlemissgracie9331]

Excellent driving time-lapse! Car Dash camera has produced great results as compared to the ones we tried with DSLR. If interested, please check out at: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gmeYfHqGrpKJfLc

[@mustange550]

See if i did this u guys would all get super board, because I would have to sop at like every other gas station :P

[@ericrenquist6494]

You should have filmed this in RAW lmfao

[@joeschmoe2843]

Yesh, remind me never to let you drive me on a road trip. That couldn't have taken any longer, especially when it took you two days just to get to Los Angeles from Las Vegas.