Herndon, VA to Hawkesbury, ON: A Complete Real Time Road Trip.

This is part 1 of 3 of my real time road trip from Virginia to St. John's, NL: Virginia to Hawkesbury, Ontario, which was done on July 19, 2018.
Here is the link to the time-lapse version of the entire trip from Virginia to St. John's:
• Herndon, VA to St. Joh...
Here is the link to part 1 of this real time road trip:
• Herndon, VA to Hawkesb...
Here is the link to part 2 of this real time road trip:
• Hawkesbury, ON to Stel...
Here is the link to part 3 of this real time road trip:
• Stellarton, NS to St. ...

[@toyorobo]

These videos are so relaxing, and I love that you drive in both U.S. and Canada.

[@jeffbosch8114]

These videos are PERFECT for those who are retired, and love to travel, but are shut-in for various reasons.

[@kaar1054]

I really love your channel, especially during these COVID times. I like long drives so it’s nice to experience it through someone else.

[@unclecoolie]

Thank you!

[@VentureAHighway]

Nothing more fun than a long road trip..

[@AmbientWalking]

How very awesome to experience this with you! Thanks so much for everything! :)

[@unclecoolie]

Thank you!

[@DJDANTRANCE]

I'm a US highways fan, never been there, so i enjoy these videos

[@wandabryantsmith2004]

Another great drive! You must have family or friends in Hawkesbury. I hope you had fun. It’s a beautiful area. So clean! Thanks! I might have to watch this one again; I kept falling asleep.😴

[@unclecoolie]

Thanks! It was a beautiful area, but I don't know anyone there. I was just driving to Nova Scotia, and I wanted to avoid driving up through the New England states because I planned to drive back that way. I wanted to originally drive through Toronto via Niagara Falls, but I just couldn't fit it into the tight schedule. I'll have to visit those areas in a future Canadian road trip.

[@southernbiscuits1275]

This is like a Christmas gift. I love your videos. Of the road trip videos I watch, yours are the best. And, once a person has watched real time videos, the sped up ones just aren't as much fun. Thanks!!

[@unclecoolie]

Thanks! I'm glad that you like my videos.

[@Shady97342]

I lived in MoCo MD for 10 years. Used to go to the Cars and Coffee in Great Falls on Saturday mornings. Seeing Rt 15 made me think of the drives I'd take home on that road through Point of Rocks, Tuscarora, Dickerson, and Barnesville. Pretty drive! And that Rocky Point Creamery in Point of Rocks had some good ice cream.

[@unclecoolie]

Very cool! I live in Herndon, but when I have to go to MD, even Baltimore, I prefer to take US-15 across the Potomac because traffic on the Beltway always sucks.

[@jcd5533]

Hurrah, Uncle Coolie!! Thank you fo your lattest trip😊👍👏

[@ryansheehan9462]

I’ve done 81 through Pennsylvania many times. Also you passed the exit for my in-laws home! This was very satisfying to watch. Next time you’re on 81 you must stop off at Carlisle for a cup of coffee at the Sunoco station! Best coffee on the road!

[@unclecoolie]

Thanks. I grew up in Orange County NY and now live in VA, so when I go back to visit, I oftentimes take I-81. I'll consider that coffee the next time I make the trip up there.

[@darshpatel3807]

Love seeing the roads I drive on daily. Grew up in Loudoun!

[@unclecoolie]

Cool. I live in Herndon.

[@shmuelyerushalmi1025]

Hi, from Israel! Very great views. I will continue to watch your very exellent channel.

[@unclecoolie]

Thank you!

[@hrithinkedage7044]

Awesome I really wanted to see the highways of New York State, thanks a lot

[@bobby68ify]

Hi coolie, it´s me. At first, happy new year to you and your family. Today, I´m watching your video and...I discovered a little mistake in Binghampton NY. At 5:00:00 - 5:00:01 there´s a wrong road sign. "West 17 use left lane". The sign of U.S. route US-17.; but correct is state route NY-17. Again a wonderful video and best weather. bye for now, Robert.

[@unclecoolie]

Wow! I hadn't noticed that the wrong road sign was used there before now. That's the first time that I've ever seen an incorrect road sign like that one. Happy New Year to you, too.

[@nathanh3316]

I am from herndon virginia. You drove by cox farms I love that place. So cool!

[@unclecoolie]

Cool. It was actually Frying Pan Farm, which is only a couple of miles away from my house, and my family and I visit several times a year ourselves.

[@revmaynard7777]

Come to Michigan some time. Go through Detroit and along the lakes, and possibly over the Mackinac Bridge and into the Upper Peninsula.

[@unclecoolie]

I want to one day. Michigan is one of 7 states (AK, HI, LA, MS, ND and VT are the others) that I have never been to. I have a cross-country trip planned that would at least take me partially through MI, but it's on hold until this godawful pandemic subsides. I think I'll be doing trips in 2021 regardless, though.

[@lilmansnake2006]

I really want some road trips from this year

[@unclecoolie]

Unfortunately, because of this godawful pandemic, I wasn't able to do any real trips this year. I plan to do some in 2021 regardless of the pandemic though.

[@lilmansnake2006]

@@unclecoolie where to?

[@unclecoolie]

@@lilmansnake2006 I have one planned from NY to CA, and another from where I live in VA to Vancouver, BC via western Canada. I'm just not sure when I can do them yet.

[@prestongarveygohelpthisset939]

Should do one from the top of Africa to the bottom of the continent if it’s possible

[@unclecoolie]

I would love to.

[@Meemzeh]

That would be around 5000 miles (8000km)

[@salvatoremaglione9865]

That would be an amazing trip but there would be some obstacles on the way.

[@unclecoolie]

@@salvatoremaglione9865 I can imagine. A trip like that would have to be done in different drives.

[@HyperActive7]

Really enjoyed seeing the Saint Lawrence Seaway area. Have heard you can take a cruise along it.

[@unclecoolie]

I think so, yes.

[@salvatoremaglione9865]

It would be great to do a European road trip across the continent when this awful pandemic ends but in your next videos, can you add the outside temperature. Your videos are a godsend. Keep it up!

[@unclecoolie]

I would love to do a Euro trip, and I've been wanting to do one for a couple of years now. I will say that I just did a road trip to Florida that I will try to edit and have uploaded by the end of February, at least the first part, and I will have the outside temperatures shown in that video.

[@SonnyMoonie]

I've appreciated your videos so much, I imagine I want to do that, get a driver's license and SUV and camera just for that. Can you spare some change? (Intended reference to Smash Mouth song All Star, exactly what it means in that song, in case you don't get that.) Not to say everything I noticed while watching, but something from my own experience too: You know you're close to the U.S.-Canada border when you see both flags flying side by side, and when it's just the Canadian flag, you know it's Canada. I wonder what you or your viewers think of the song "The Trip" by Still Corners? That's very laid back. There may be some other music that's bigger and more important, to match the depth of trips like this, and I don't just mean Autobahn, although that would be neat for the nostalgia if driving a German make or driving Salzburg to Munich again. I think I especially liked when the song Missed Connection by The Head and the Heart came on the radio, driving over a bridge in the Florida Keys on the way from Newfoundland. A KZbin generated playlist of half The Joy Formidable tracks got me through the second half of this trip with time flying. That might be just me about liking them, Welsh Utahans. Your mileage may vary.

[@davidm5173]

I don’t know how you can be quiet for so long. I am constantly talking to myself 😂

[@unclecoolie]

I listen to music through my earphones (to avoid copyright issues with the audio). I also do a lot of thinking while I'm driving alone.

[@davidm5173]

@@unclecoolie Oh, well I still don’t know how you do it cause then I would be singing out loud 😂

[@Mr007Mafrinha]

do you intend to make videos crossing other countries?

[@unclecoolie]

Eventually. I have more video of Germany and Kenya that I will upload while I wait to do more road trips.

[@gxpher7]

You should try San Francisco/LA/Seattle to Panama City

[@unclecoolie]

I covered the first three in my west coast video, but I would love to do one all the way down to Ushuaia, Argentina one day.

[@gxpher7]

@@unclecoolie ok, i don't think you can go all the way down there because of the darien gap you can look into it

[@unclecoolie]

@@gxpher7 A trip like that would have to be done in multiple, smaller trips anyway.

[@gxpher7]

@@unclecoolie ok

[@JoshuaPenaranda]

Had to click after seeing Herndon, VA in the title lol

[@davidm5173]

I finally watched the whole video 😅

[@claytonbrown7100]

I love that stretch of US 15 between Leesburg and Frederick...did you avoid the Greenway to save on tolls?

[@unclecoolie]

Yes. The Greenway is expensive.

[@G.R.V-v4g]

Quick question. Why did you not get onto the 417 once the 138 ended and took that Concession road to the next exit?

[@unclecoolie]

I just followed my GPS navigation. It certainly would've been fewer turns to just get on 417 directly from 138.

[@seangorelik1668]

I can’t drive that long without talking to myself (it’s not crazy as long as I don’t answer myself). How do you keep quiet for that long?!

[@unclecoolie]

I listen to music through my earphones (to avoid any copyright issues with the audio). Otherwise, I seldom get much time to myself, so I really enjoy it when I get to do these trips.

[@elijahrothstein5748]

@@unclecoolie Do you ever listen to podcasts or audiobooks? As much as I love music, I always end up getting bored and need to switch to something different.

[@unclecoolie]

@@elijahrothstein5748 not really. My wife does, but I never got into them.

[@Etriland]

06:12:40 I remember most of these buildings. Mostly the ADV and the cylinder building Edit: also the hospital I was born at, and that building with a clock on it

[@unclecoolie]

Cool!

[@afxtwn126]

Great video! How do you manage to capture so many hours of footage on your camera? Do you use lots of different takes and edit them together? How long does the battery last? Thanks.

[@unclecoolie]

Thanks. I used a 256 GB micro SD card for this trip, which is enough to hold about 17 hours' of 1080p video. I had this plugged into a USB port for power.

[@hotpapperbe7754]

Soooo chil and nice !

[@mswkickdrum]

Love your videos. What camera and editing software are you using? Maybe a brief how to video?

[@unclecoolie]

Thanks. I used the Garmin Virb Ultra 30, which records the GPS information. The Virb software that the camera uses extracts the GPS data and puts it in the video. All the rest of the editing, including the overlays and texts, I do in Final Cut Pro. I created the graphic overlays using Paint/Photoshop. I am thinking of doing a how-to video at some point.

[@mswkickdrum]

@@unclecoolie thank you! A how to video would surely be a hit.

[@unclecoolie]

@@mswkickdrum I think I will work on that sometime after the New Year.

[@Etriland]

You spelled Onondaga county wrong. (I started to tear up when it was near Syracuse cuz of nostalgia)

[@unclecoolie]

As much as I try to minimize errors, I still have them scattered throughout my videos somewhere.

[@Etriland]

@@unclecoolie oh, sorry lol. As said in my previous comment, I grew up in Onondaga county (cuz Syracuse is the head city), and just made a friendly little correction. Also, your vida are great, keep it up! (I subbed as well)

[@matthewgibbons4525]

How do you manage to go so long without a break? I can just imagine how drowsy I would have been 3 hours in 😅

[@unclecoolie]

I've always loved exploring, and I don't get to do big road trips like this that often. The excitement of seeing new places during long road trips keeps me wide awake! 😊

[@rafaelvaliati3728]

Awesome drive! What kind of equipment do you use to record the footage and all of that data?

[@unclecoolie]

Thanks. I used the Garmin Virb Ultra 30, which records GPS information. I create the rest of the graphic overlays myself, and I use Final Cut Pro for all of the video editing.

[@PremierCCGuyMMXVI]

How do you have time to do this? Lol Good video thank you

[@unclecoolie]

It's not easy, which is why it takes so long for me sometimes to get new videos uploaded.

[@stickify5981]

Can you not put ad's on the vid bc it's relaxing seeing all the journey and just pop up and ad please.

[@unclecoolie]

I'm not a big fan of ads, either, which is why I have Premium. It's only $12/month, and you never have to worry about ads again.

[@stickify5981]

Thanks bro!

[@СергейМуром-ч9м]

Greetings from Russia! What kind of car do you have?

[@unclecoolie]

I drove a 2018 Kia Sorrento for this video. My personal vehicle is a 2015 MDX, which can be seen at the end of my CA-NY video from PA into NY.

[@aliyandaily1603]

Nice Trip Bro make more videos 👍

[@unclecoolie]

I will!

[@aliyandaily1603]

@@unclecoolie Thanks

[@rafaelraphael4370]

please, in the next video make a trip between Porto Alegre and Belém (Brazil) 🇧🇷😁

[@unclecoolie]

I would love to do a trip down there some day.

[@LeonardoOliveira-ot7we]

Make one in Brazil, Porto Alegre .RS to Natal .RN.

[@unclecoolie]

One day I'd like to. I've never been to Brazil.

[@LeonardoOliveira-ot7we]

@@unclecoolie thank you!!

[@RoadsOfAsiaBen]

Great video! Do you have more road trip videos to upload? Stay safe!

[@unclecoolie]

Thanks. Yes, I have the last two parts of this trip to St. John's in real time; then I'll start uploading some other videos that I did in both Germany and Kenya a couple of years back while I prepare to do some road trips in 2021, pandemic or not.

[@joseburgos7803]

Excelente video saludos cordiales 😃👌👌

[@unclecoolie]

Gracias!

[@montekpncto7426]

Hi, may I ask what recording device do you use for this video?

[@unclecoolie]

I used the Garmin Virb Ultra 30.

[@Bobby3OOO]

HAHAHA -- this starts right by my house in Herndon!! Are we neighbors??

[@unclecoolie]

I think so, yes. That's where I live.

[@HSstudio.Ytchnnl]

when you drive at the last 2 counties in NYS, I feel like I'm in a Philippine road.

[@rafaeldiazsanchez]

Lovely video. Nice (and useful) map but one 25% smaller may provide the same information and don't use so much real state on the screen. The open sky is one of the strong points of videos like this. Besides, latitude and longitude are right on the corner but there is a gap between the map and the border of the screen, more real state wasted. You have a very good place to put all this when around 25& of the screen is your car and nobody is going to watch the dashboard. The map for instance could almost fit into the bottom left corner without changing the size . As for the editing of the pit stops, I guess you want to show all the trip on the car and that's OK, but they break the flow. Merging the beginning and the end, indicating why there is a cut could solve the problem. In any case, I love your country and your channel has some of the best road videos. Thanks for uploading them, I will certainly keep watching.

[@unclecoolie]

Thanks. I tried reducing the map but then it becomes hard to read and see. That's why I stopped putting the cities on the overlay map. I can reduce the map for the 4K video, but not for these 1080p videos. I capture the dash only because I like to use a wide angle lens.

[@rafaeldiazsanchez]

@@unclecoolie Well, it all depends on what you consider that people want to know from your trip. Reading the comments it seems that people watch your videos for the landscape, the relaxing images... and not so much for the geographical data. In my case, the road, the date, the route and the state you are driving usually are enough. There is no problem with the dashboard being visible, it mainly occupies asphalt space, not the landscape or the sky and it is like the noise of the engine, part of the driving experience. It should be somewhere. It is then the ideal place for the information

[@unclecoolie]

@@rafaeldiazsanchez The corners and bottom are where I have put everything. I want to drive mainly vehicles with short hoods and mount the camera on the roof, but that's too risky for a long road trip. That's why I haven't yet used a 360 camera for my road trips. I'm working on a solution for my next road trips in 2021 though.

[@rafaeldiazsanchez]

@@unclecoolie What I see is already good enough for me but any future improvement is of course always welcome. Take care (from Spain)

[@unclecoolie]

@@rafaeldiazsanchez Thank you. You do the same.

[@Prekkersaurus]

I am new to this channel. I would like to know what kind (brand) of car dash cam gives such detailed information as displayed on the four corners of the video screen?

[@unclecoolie]

For this trip I used the Garmin Virb Ultra 30, which records the GPS information. The Virb software that the camera uses extracts the GPS data and puts it in the video. All the rest of the editing, including the overlays and texts, I do in Final Cut Pro. I created the graphic overlays using Paint/Photoshop.

[@aaviadd]

thanks of upload

[@unclecoolie]

Most welcome!

[@rafdes]

yayyyyyyy

[@joseespina7681]

Merry christmas que viva Norteamérica!! Desde Guatemala

[@unclecoolie]

Merry Christmas!

[@AnimatingStudios2002]

5:00:00 You passed through my city!

[@AnimatingStudios2002]

Also, it's spelt Binghamton, there's no "P"

[@unclecoolie]

I should've known that as I grew up only about an hour or so away from Binghamton.

[@ЮрийМихеев-у7у]

Вот смотрю я и думаю: почему в Америке все превышают скорость? Это же опасно! В зоне 55 надо ехать не выше 55, в зоне 65 - не выше 65 и так далее.

[@unclecoolie]

People generally speed on highways, and I've noticed that it's even worse in Canada while I was driving through there.

[@titone311]

Are u gonna do more

[@unclecoolie]

Yes. I have a new trip that I did a month ago that I will be uploaded in a few days. First it will be in time lapse, and then in real time as with this trip.

[@Bassiebas_NL]

Is this video from complete road trip 8 hours 41 minutes and 35 seconds? Have you also made videos of 2019 and this year 2020? 🙈🙈🙈🙈

[@unclecoolie]

I did my recent West Virginia trip and my Southwest trip in 2019--both uploaded. I really didn't do any trips this year, but I will do some in 2021, regardless of the pandemic.

[@habfromdawestside]

Next video plese New York to Hawaii 😂😂😂😂😂

[@unclecoolie]

I want to do the Hawaii part at some point, but going across the ocean will be difficult as my carboat is in the shop.

[@daniel4655]

Speeding black Ford ute at 6:53:54 Karma at 7:10:07 😂

[@unclecoolie]

😊

[@duguid82]

Pretty good but the first 8 and a half minutes, you just made a complete circle.

[@jattdrive6451]

wow nice❤️

[@jerrypie]

I also live in Herndon :D

[@unclecoolie]

Awesome!

[@SankarGS]

In Kerala (Sothern western State of India) you can reach 200km at 4hr only 😁😁😁😁😁😁 coz of highways are smalls and junk traffic mostly. you can't even ride above 80km/hr at ur machine

[@unclecoolie]

That sounds like Kenya, which I've visited 3 times in the last 10 years.

[@davidm5173]

Where do you actually live? You can just tell me the state

[@jerrypie]

In another comment he said he lives in Herndon VA

[@unclecoolie]

That's correct: Herndon.

[@walterlewisthedondwiiannoy7852]

I saw a fire truck at 4:37:14

[@ЯнЯнчилик]

good job

[@unclecoolie]

Thanks!

[@davidm5173]

5:34:23 I ❤️ NY

[@unclecoolie]

Upstate NY is beautiful.

[@karankhandelwal4237]

why do you do these trips? Are you transporting something from place to place? Just curious to know. Btw I love watching your videos. I'm from India.

[@unclecoolie]

Thank you! I mainly do these trips for fun. For years I only traveled by air, and ever since I was little I've always wanted to do long road trips.

[@karankhandelwal4237]

@@unclecoolie I see. Thank you so much for making these videos.

[@JackyVSO]

7:33:04: I've heard about technology levels being lower in the countryside but wtf

[@JackyVSO]

Oh. Must be the Amish. Didn't know they hung out in New York.

[@jeffe9842]

Enjoyable video ruined by too many ads.

[@unclecoolie]

Thanks. I recommend getting Premium, which I have. With Premium you never have to see ads.

[@AaronDanielLIsles]

I Am Challenging You. Can you drive the worst US Road?

[@unclecoolie]

It's possible: I live close to DC, which has some of the worst roads in the country.

[@AaronDanielLIsles]

@@unclecoolie BTW why are there a lot of US roads created very bad?

[@unclecoolie]

@@AaronDanielLIsles It depends on the state. Pennsylvania and New York generally have worse roads than most states.

[@AaronDanielLIsles]

@@unclecoolie Like Michigan?? the worst roads.

[@AaronDanielLIsles]

@@unclecoolie BTW keep your work. I like your videos. :/

[@davidm5173]

What kind of car in this video?

[@unclecoolie]

A 2018 Kia Sorrento.

[@cc283gd8]

what is your main language?

[@unclecoolie]

Python.

[@SectionHikingTheAT]

Onondaga county (NYS)

[@singhpub6753]

What car you drive?

[@unclecoolie]

I drove a 2018 Kia Sorento.

[@alexdavid6878]

I miss the timelapse

[@unclecoolie]

I have the time lapse version of this whole trip to St. John's uploaded. The link to that video is in this video's description.

[@markbrown3348]

What's the next video?

[@unclecoolie]

My road trip from Hawkesbury to North Sydney, Nova Scotia. I'll try to have that uploaded in the next couple of weeks.

[@Savvyyy369]

Why hawkesbury?

[@unclecoolie]

I had planned this whole trip out (up into Canada, through Montreal over to NB and to North Sydney, NS and then back across NB and down the east coast of the U.S. back to Virginia) over 4 days total, and I determined that Hawkesbury was the best place to stay for the first night given how long it would take me to get to New Glasgow, NS, which is where I spent the second night.

[@user-zg6ud1lk7c]

How tall are you?

[@unclecoolie]

I'm 6'-2"

[@seanharkinl3555]

you go right by my house inVKH

[@legalnafikcjatv3184]

2222 view on 12/12/2020 at 00:35 London For the statistic

[@daniel4655]

Nearly an accident at 6:33:30

[@unclecoolie]

That was close.

[@yyprime6592]

16:40

[@der-e-wolf]

Waiting the whole Video to see the crossing of the Border and St. Lorentz River. And then? Cut. Seriously?

[@unclecoolie]

I didn't want to get harassed by the border guards, so I turned the camera off.

[@der-e-wolf]

@@unclecoolie okay, are they so strict?

[@unclecoolie]

@@der-e-wolf I've been harassed in crossing the border before, mostly when I return back into the States, and I didn't want to give the border guards any excuse to detain me.

[@jmylee]

I am expecting to see how to cross the border too, anyway I understand now, don’t get trouble, correct. Thank you