A Drive Across DESOLATE WYOMING - Cheyenne To Cody

[@suzannejohnson9140]

I live in Wyoming. It's unique and beautiful. Different landscapes from prairies to breathtaking mountains.

[@FastJumpinJackFlash]

And your annual salary is $15,000 and my annual salary $160,000 and I live in Half Moon Bay in Northern California.

[@rajeevdeshpande7666]

Hi Please go through my Song of Wyoming. It's about land, people and culture of Wyoming. I am sure you will like it.

[@suzannejohnson9140]

@@FastJumpinJackFlash seriously? Rude.

[@murrayterry834]

i am really sorry for you.

[@suzannejohnson9140]

@@murrayterry834 sorry for me living in Wyoming?

[@Marilyns888]

Thanks for the video. I'm most likely going to move to Cheyenne in 3 months. I'm glad to see videos and even drone footage.

[@lawrencesheffield4759]

A real misnomer on how desolate that country is. Its beautiful. Pure virgin land

[@hikergirly]

I think it’s a tongue-in-cheek title as many of them are. Designed to pique your interest and get clicks ;)

[@PSTXFL]

I lived in Wyoming for a while and it’s one of my favorites. Big wide open beautiful country.

[@artwyoming]

I was born in Cody/Wapiti. I love my home state. Amazing, beautiful place to live away from so many people.

[@danielc.2042]

I love the drive through Wind River Canyon

[@mbrawthen]

Just Beautiful! Nothing I like better than driving through “Fly Over County”‼️😘

[@alankelly-hamm2702]

More amazing footage and good music. I get to see through your eyes parts of the US that I have never visited.

[@JoeandNicsRoadTrip]

Thank you, Alan.

[@justmyopinion9883]

Thank you for sharing your road trip. The scenery there in Wyoming is beautiful.

[@rowietappy187]

Really like these recent trips around Wyoming, this is beautiful state and amazing small towns or cities Really not keen on the big city’s such as New York, Chicago, LA, etc amazing as they are. This is the true America, I bet the locals are super friendly. Wonderful scenery, what’s not to like in this amazing part of the USA.

[@JoeandNicsRoadTrip]

Absolutely agree.

[@aquablue3803]

My Niece lived in Laramie. So beautiful

[@reanimator6217]

I'm moving to Gillette next week with my family, and it's wonderful there.

[@Ecox51719]

Born and raised in Cheyenne. I won't ever leave. There's a reason it's called wyHOMEing 💜

[@Yormsane]

I always stop in Chugwater - between Cheyenne and Douglas - for a bowl of their amazing local chili. One of America's essential roadside food stops!

[@tedpreston4155]

What!? You didn't stop in Chugwater for the ice cream? I can't count how many milkshakes I've enjoyed in Chugwater!

[@hughstephenson2957]

I was born and raised 50 miles east of Cody (Greybull area) and live in NE Wyoming now. I still get over there fairly frequently

[@robertspecht1911]

Wyoming isn't desolate. Now we do have some deserts, but wild life does abound in all the glorious a ray of colors.

[@scotcoon1186]

Desolate sounds so negative. Even in winter, grasslands have multiple colors. Here in southwest Nebraska you'll find light and dark greens, orange-reds, and browns. I believe it was Willa Cather who wrote anyone can love the mountains. It takes a soul to love the prairie.

[@maryholloway5487]

Thank you from Fort Collins, Colorado. I LOVE 💗 WYOMING.

[@daviddecelles8714]

The landscape, though desolate, is breathtaking. In Wyoming, Humanity is interspersed, but Nature dominates. (What you're doing must, in some ways, be exhausting. We're all the more grateful.)

[@JoeandNicsRoadTrip]

Perfect interpretation, David.

[@tumbleweed57]

This is my kind of trip. Driving through the west where aren’t many people. But the ones you meet are good people. I love WY.

[@funguy4utube]

Can’t help but think how brave the pioneers were. Imagine ! Just even imagine traveling by horse that distance. Even today one would be so dependent on your car not breaking down or running out of gas. There are so many long stretches without anything. Imagine the same mid winter and or at night.

[@His_Name_Was_King]

They made of stern stuff way more than we are. We are just a very watered down version of what once was.

[@gplunk]

Highly 'diluted'....

[@earthangel3234]

I live in Southern Montana and love Wyoming and driving through it. A very beautiful State and the people are nice.

[@Veyronp87]

Wow much more diverse landscape than I thought

[@JoeandNicsRoadTrip]

Definitely. You go from flat plains to massive mountains quick.

[@seansutube5791]

I love this drive and state

[@222amJohn]

Went through Wyoming 22yrs ago on the Greyhound going from Denver to San Francisco. Beautiful.

[@user-qm9oo2fd2o]

We made the same drive this past June. We’re moving to Cheyenne from California. BIL lives in Cody. Love the wide open spaces.

[@Lalunabreeze]

Wow, lucky u. Wish I could leave ca.

[@user-qm9oo2fd2o]

@@Lalunabreeze Thanks man, we made the move the end of March and love it. We know the winters are brutal and we also have lived in the area before.

[@cliveashley9364]

Beautiful ♥️ scenery 👍😄 nice 👍 adventure 🦋☘️🌞 enjoying fr jamaica 🇯🇲🏖️🌞😎

[@donnasuzie64]

I moved to Wyoming about 5 years ago. I love it out here!! If you can handle the winters, it's beautiful country!

[@The2ndFirst]

Never let your tank get below 1/2 in Wyoming.

[@lynludwig1323]

I love Cody and anywhere north of New Castle ..more trees .beautiful scenery ..living out of Cheyenne and driving to Green River is the longest driest drive ever ..

[@JoeandNicsRoadTrip]

Cody is beautiful. I flew my drone over the city today. It looks amazing from the air.

[@joejohnson5115]

I-80 from Cheyenne to Green River/ Rock Springs is super super busy with semi traffic! I think they outnumber cars and trucks.

[@lynludwig1323]

@@joejohnson5115 to many semis 🚛! Its the same on I25 ..

[@BrunieStudios]

I’m from Brooklyn…so glad I get to go on this expansive road trip through Wyoming…I embrace and love the open road…❤❤❤

[@EthaKidd1]

Glad I found this channel. Watched 2 videos so far and I'm hooked. Liked the music in this one. Very chill vibe👍

[@JoeandNicsRoadTrip]

I'm glad you're here, Edson.

[@RichardFelstead1949]

Thanks for sharing. It's interesting " visiting" places far away. Greetings from Australia.

[@JoeandNicsRoadTrip]

Thank you for watching, Richard! Australian Siri guides me on my journeys, btw. You'll hear me talk to her in some videos. Some of your fellow Aussies love it! :)

[@edwardmiessner6502]

It doesn't look desolate at all! A drive on smooth, well-kept roads through a still beautiful 😍 landscape. They must be doing something right

[@gandhakey6030]

I went from new York through wyoming to San Francisco by greyhound back in the 70s, what an amazing journey. We stopped for 4:52 breakfast in Cheyenne. I'll never forget what an amazing country the US is.....

[@fuziface]

I,ve been enjoying your channel for some time now , just checking out some of your older videos , with no narriation , I would have passed on them back then , your new ones with info are much better . I've driven through Wyoming , miles and miles of nothing but mile and miles .😎

[@barkerjames1980]

You made it to my town! I just drove from Cody, through Thermopolis and Shoshoni yesterday to visit Castle Gardens. I made a video of the drive through the Wind River Canyon going the other way. Is uploading now! Trivia: that big reddish building you passed in Shoshoni (was on your left) is the former C.H. King building, built by Charles Henry King, former president Ford's paternal grandfather!

[@joycelebaron2582]

Interesting!

[@beerbottlebaby]

We live there too, great little town.

[@davy2022]

Hi guys, absolutely love your videos to parts of the USA we don’t think about. All the best for your travels…. Davy , Glasgow (Scotland)

[@JoeandNicsRoadTrip]

Thank you, Davy. I'm glad you're watching.

[@kcn-qt6fc]

Wyoming is beautiful! I have only seen a portion of the state and want to see more. I would also say that the downtown centers of the towns you drove through were thriving! A very good sign.

[@davidmclaughlin2796]

This a great video. I love Wyoming. Thank you. David.

[@JoeandNicsRoadTrip]

Thank you, David!!

[@OldMiner-wj6rr]

What a beautiful state!

[@mariawalsh335]

I love your adventures but this one is amazing with the beautiful landscape

[@JoeandNicsRoadTrip]

Thank you, Maria!

[@rajeevdeshpande7666]

Hi Lord Spoda Wow! Thanks. I too am travelling vicariously! You are translating my Song of Wyoming into your wonderful wandering. In my last comment I posted you six lines of the song out of twenty four lines total. All the best!👍

[@donaldmilhoan6379]

Amazing scenic countryside!

[@Moon-eg3vm]

Loved this video. Been to most of WY & the route you took. Spent 2 summers in WY all over the state in ‘71 & ‘73. Took my boys back in ‘86. Stayed in Gillette several weeks. Met my good friend Connie there & still friends. Spent 3 weeks in Casper & a week on Casper Mt. They took us to Yellowstone., went back in ‘86 with hubby & kids. Was a week in Lander, Rawlings & Kimball NE. Everyone was great. Drove across the mts at Ten Sleep to Worland for a week & kids took us to Thermop hot springs. Saratoga also has a hot springs, Hobo Pool. Never made it to Cody, turned & went across the mts via Shell (beautiful drive) to Ranchester on way to Billings MT. I visited Jackson Hole before it became a “celeb” center. It was just another unique town. Wish you’d have done audio. WY & MT are beautiful states & most friendly people. Took my laundry to laundromat & someone had taken my clothes & put in washer so they could use the washer. Never happen in the south - they’d steal your clothes first! Wish you’d have made it to the Tetons. Our drive from Casper to Lander was uneventful (except Hell’s Half Acre) until we topped a hill & saw the Tetons for the first time. They just “appeared” & looked so majestic! You also missed Teapot Dome & the river that runs uphill. Lander has the “sinks” of the Popo Aggie (Poposia) River. Also Hellfighters with John Wayne was filmed there. Also they have ghost towns: Atlantic City & South Pass City. FYI: WY was the first state to have a woman governor & first female judge.

[@JoeandNicsRoadTrip]

Thank you for the comment. I enjoyed reading it. :)

[@randygibbons4570]

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[@adnilgee4652]

Thanks Mr. Spoda... another day of virtual travel around "State- sides' Have a safe.. driving and vlogging. always...😊

[@JoeandNicsRoadTrip]

Thank you, Adnil. :)

[@quarrellousquaker]

Proof that there is beauty in desolation.

[@donphillips5957]

1974, Labor Day weekend we were heading east. Friday we went out in the Salt Lake desert, I got a miserable sunburn. Saturday we left SLC in the morning, it was drizzling and chilly. Saturday night we were snow bound in Rock Springs.

[@doctorshawzy6477]

wonderful..just saw more of wyoming than ever before..

[@andrewolawoye6171]

I'm always impressed about your touring through different places in America, your narrative is very soothing and simplified, it's like Im there, you must be a good instructor, I also like the way you passionately relate to your wife it's beautiful ❤️. I will continue to follow your travelling and you get my A+, God bless you and your family

[@JoeandNicsRoadTrip]

Thank you for this, Andrew.

[@kire115]

We did that one from Denver to Jackson Hole for a long ski weekend February 2021, freedom.

[@ColdSprite]

Ain’t that funny.. some people travel to Denver for skiing and you being from there go somewhere else lol it’s like me who’s never been to Disney land and it’s 15 min from my house lol

[@JudithSchoner]

A lot of open land, love it. Wyoming was always one of my fav US States, hate the crowds, love nature and history ❤. 😊

[@sailingonasummerbreeze7892]

I love the barren, wide open road - there is just something about it....

[@ruthlessgoat3702]

I've made this drive. There is a wonderful Retro Motel in Riverton, the Paintbrush Motel. It is charming, squeaky clean and a perfect step back in time. Another great retro is The Rocket in Custer, S.D.

[@jennyt7612]

Thanks for a great video. I really like the frequent American flags flying too. Wish we were as patriotic here in Australia! This is a part of America I loved from the time I was a little girl growing up in a city on the other side of the world, & read the Mary O'Hara trilogy of the Goose Bar Ranch.

[@JoeandNicsRoadTrip]

Thank you, Jenny!

[@stevekelly8898]

If you go to Yellowstone and are staying in Cody you need to leave the park at the northeast entrance once and take highway 212 to 296 and take that to 120 on your way back to Cody. Highway 296 (also known as the Chief Joseph Scenic Byway) is a must. It is one of the most beautiful drives you will ever take.

[@seant1133]

Northeast entrance is still closed from the flooding

[@JoeandNicsRoadTrip]

Yeah, we noticed that.

[@stevekelly8898]

@@seant1133 That sucks, it is an amazing drive.

[@chinglembanahakpam]

Its inevitable to watch the rural & small towns of America through your fantastic channel before going to bed. It’s night here at Manipur , India ( it’s small state in north east India , next to Myanmar & China side. We actually don’t look like mainland Indians 😃😃 , but we are very much Indian from the heart 😄

[@JoeandNicsRoadTrip]

Thank you for watching!! :)

[@kamranshabbir6258]

i love wild western movies. wyoming is like old west that i saw in western movies. love to watch from pakistan.😊

[@peterparr3079]

That was great. thanks for recording and showing.

[@JoeandNicsRoadTrip]

Thank you for the kind words, Peter. :)

[@ryanlevron1972]

I used to live in Worland.....i was renting for 18 months and drove thru Wind River Canyon many times.....now we own 4 acres in Wyoming......its a beautiful state

[@JoeandNicsRoadTrip]

I've been to Worland a couple times. It's nice!

[@livingeveryday777]

I love that alot of Wyomingites still have American flags on buildings and even some still on their houses. So rare these alphabet days

[@davidjohnson519]

Another great road trip video! I see that road construction is still going on in Casper. It was like that last year in August when I drove through there.

[@JoeandNicsRoadTrip]

Right!!? We were there this past April and saw it then as well. It seems never-ending! :)

[@DenaInWyo]

@@JoeandNicsRoadTrip It IS never-ending.

[@quintenmccormick6900]

Yep. Lol. We have 4. seasons here. And one is constrution because most things cant be worked on in winter we will most likly have snow by or right after Halloween.

[@BillKing3456]

I googled the towns u drove thru. Shoshini had an instragrammable section of their downtown that was the definition of forlorn. Thermopolis I would have wanted to stop at for the hot springs. Cody looks interesting, ditto the whole part of Wyoming you drove thru. We visited Devil's Tower, which was fantastic, in northeastern Wyoming in June when we were in South Dakota but you're a long ways away from that now. Yellowstone is worth all the hype if you've never been. Keep on truckin'.

[@JoeandNicsRoadTrip]

Thank you, Bill. :)

[@ALWilde-LibertyTree]

Thermopolis also has a excellent museum with very impressive fossil collection! I love my state I'll miss it the real estate is to much though

[@petehillberry5564]

You didn't do meeteetse my home years ago seattle wa niw

[@keithw1885]

Talk about being desolate! Wow!

[@Jferriera5894]

Cool music!

[@leemaddox5785]

And we love Wyoming the way it is, desolation and all!!! Oh, and we have really big scary bears!!!😉😂

[@JoeandNicsRoadTrip]

It’s one of my favorite things about it.

[@hdtraincam]

awesome i felt like Jesse James just looking at the scenery your doing a beyond excellant job on your video cross country series

[@JoeandNicsRoadTrip]

Wow, thank you. You just made my day! :)

[@johnsmith-ug5tp]

Beautiful.

[@davidphoenix5352]

Will be doing that route in a few weeks' time !! Denver to Cheyenne, Casper, Cody, Yellowstone, Rexburg, Hailey, Boise, Bend, Eugene, Oregon Coast, Medford, Ukiah and onto SFO to fly back to the UK YIPPEEE !!!

[@JoeandNicsRoadTrip]

That's a great trip!

[@doriWyo]

Wyoming has a rugged beauty, which you can only glimpse from the highways.

[@tedpreston4155]

That is so true! The best parts of Wyoming are far from any roads: The Wind River Mountains, Sweetwater Rocks and Adobe Town are some of my favorite parts! All of them are protected wilderness, with no roads at all.

[@karljacobson1575]

Used to haul cattle out of Montana and down that corridor to Kansas!!! In the early 90 s!!

[@JoeandNicsRoadTrip]

Wow!

[@scotcoon1186]

I always thought I'd like to live in the middle of Wyoming, without another soul in sight. Then I stood at Panorama Point in the wind, with the nearest visible place easily over 5 miles away.

[@GeorgeWashingtonX]

Very cool, I've unfortunately never been there..

[@stevencole9387]

I camped overnight to see the total solar eclipse on August 21, 2017 in the middle of nowhere Wyoming. The road back to Cheyenne was bumper to bumper traffic for hours when thousands of people broke camp and headed south all at the same time.

[@markbajek2541]

I did that in southern illinois, what a nightmare traffic was for hundreds of miles. and luckily the weather worked out, 20 miles over they got cloud cover in Carbondale. Luck of the draw. I'd recommend everyone see a total eclipse at least once in their lives, next one is in april 2024 in the US

[@namkill8886]

We had a million people in and around Casper! It was a big deal.

[@robertpolnicky7702]

I went from Cheyenne to glendo. 2 30 in the morning. Bumper to bumper going north in the middle of the night. I've never seen Wyoming like that. I that video is still on you tube. Going back people were stopped on the interstate getting out of their cars and jogging.

[@vernafairleigh7566]

You should try the grasslands north of Glenrock/Douglas next time.

[@tedpreston4155]

I remember that traffic too! we waited near Torrington, and got on the road toward Denver around four in the morning, thinking that traffic would have subsided by then. But traffic on I-25 was still crawling southward all the way from Cheyenne to Denver, even the next morning after the eclipse! I had invited some thirty or so friends to stay at our ranch to watch the eclipse. Most of them left that evening, right after the eclipse, and I don't even want to imagine the traffic they experienced!

[@KenVet]

Did you happen to tour Warren AFB yesterday ?

[@MrReymoclif714]

Remember a 1977 Bus approaching Cheyenne,Wyoming! Lotsa wooden small cowboy houses and then WHAM,The Capitol Dome +Indians fighting for the tourists outside of the Bus Station. Not one of my longer layovers back then.

[@stevenjeffrey4637]

I really wish this video had been made in the spring when everything is green, so much more beautiful. There are also so many other parts of Wyo that are absolutely beautiful that aren't represented in this video. Otherwise,..very cool video!

[@JoeandNicsRoadTrip]

I thought it was crazy beautiful when I filmed it.

[@stevenjeffrey4637]

@@JoeandNicsRoadTrip You are absolutely right,..but when it is green it is even more amazing.

[@JoeandNicsRoadTrip]

@@stevenjeffrey4637 I did drive through Wyoming into Montana last May. It was incredibly green and beautiful.

[@marwanitani4269]

Howdy my favourite channel !

[@bradleymorrison5100]

You should have stopped at the hot springs in Thermopolis. We love going there in the cooler months..

[@JoeandNicsRoadTrip]

AI future video.

[@thepurpleufo]

Wow...really cool!!!

[@shoestringhomestead3323]

Next time you run the 25 stop in chug water at the little soda fountain. It is really a nice place it is owned by The prairie homestead they also have you tube channel 🤩 love your travels.

[@JoeandNicsRoadTrip]

I will do that. :)

[@tedpreston4155]

I grew up near Chugwater, and drove through many times on the way to Cheyenne. Stopping for a milkshake at the soda fountain is a routine I still follow to this day! Oddly, I haven't stopped since the Prairie Homestead bought it, even though I watch her videos. I hope to stop and meet her one day!

[@unseenadventures8130]

Yep them rocks in the begining is chugwater where I live.

[@jeffhendrix7948]

That drive looks very nice!,try it in winter time, I live in cody and that drive can get really bad i minutes!

[@jeffmcmillan6554]

I love Wyoming

[@an80slady]

Love how they cut out the rock

[@hopecordova6754]

Excellent video!

[@JoeandNicsRoadTrip]

Wow, thank you, Hope. :)

[@bluemoon3964]

If you're going to spend any time in Cody I recommend the museum

[@JoeandNicsRoadTrip]

We went. It was awesome.

[@ALWilde-LibertyTree]

Did y'all drop in on Chugwater and get a prairie pie? If not you should've!!!

[@andreahicks967]

I've made this drive. Nice if you enjoy no people around. Peaceful and the parts were beautiful!

[@OceanusHelios]

I'm from Wyoming and have lived here for 50 years. I had to turn the volume all the way down because that musical score couldn't be more dijointed from the actual video or the feel of what Wyoming is like.

[@marywinn8953]

Yep, this is what it looks like.

[@joejohnson5115]

I absolutely love Wyoming! Nice video! So what was your final antelope tally?

[@JoeandNicsRoadTrip]

LOL, I think we saw three.

[@joejohnson5115]

Any video from Casper to Midwest to Reno Junction to Gillette?

[@marcusmassey231]

You should do a trip up into the Big Horn Mountains from Sheridan. It's worth the drive. It is gorgeous up there

[@JoeandNicsRoadTrip]

I will in time. :)

[@gonzothompson412]

If you stay in Meeteetse long enough, you can see the towns Family Tree…which is a Flag Pole right beside the post office! 😂🤣

[@longrider42]

Been there done that, more times then I like to think about. I live in Cheyenne. The drive from Cheyenne to Casper isn't so bad. But then it's off to Shoshone and that part is not so good. After Shoshone its not so bad. Just don't do it in the winter time.

[@ticnatz]

I've done desolate drives across Nebraska, Kansas, & Colorado looking for abandoned farmhouses & barns, for photographic reasons. Perhaps Wyoming should be next.....

[@ramirozamora8117]

Wyoming its beautiful I live in saratoga and i have travel most of wy, state

[@merrillbeck1575]

Almost certain the best part of the drive was from Casper to Shoshone

[@kyleelsbernd7566]

I know you're out West but is Knoxville on your list by chance?

[@JoeandNicsRoadTrip]

We've been to Knoxville and did a video - it's here on my channel. That said, Covid was still affecting things there so I didn't get to see everything I wanted. Will be returning eventually.

[@josiel152]

kinda reminds me of the road from Reno Nevada to Las Vegas Nevada -nothing there maybe a little more on your drive though.

[@CosmicStargoat]

Most people are under the impression that Wyoming is all tall, majestic mountains. Yes, you do have the Tetons, Yellowstone and Devil's Tower, but most of Wyoming looks more like Kansas and eastern Colorado. Desolate is right.

[@georgem7965]

IMO, you took the less scenic route. I think the route Cheyenne, Laramie, Rawlins, Riverton, Shoshoni is more interesting. More mountains and more varied scenery. According to Google maps this route is 22 minutes longer on a 6+ hour drive.

[@tedpreston4155]

You're absolutely right, George! The route you mentioned is far more beautiful! I-25 is the fastest way from point A to point B, but it's also the reason they used the word "Desolate" in the video title! The same can be said for most of of I-80: the interstate highways through Wyoming are certainly not the scenic route!

[@baileyreport.]

Look at all the skid marks on the highway of those who feel asleep or were bored to near death and woke up in time to save their lives.