New York, NY to Santa Monica, CA: A Complete Road Trip

[@Daikenki01]

Ladies and gentlemen, he's back!

[@unclecoolie]

I'm not going anywhere. I sometimes get pretty busy and can't upload videos as often as I want, but I will keep doing so.

[@unclecoolie]

@@john-paulhunt6943 Nope. Still here.

[@Masonworld1000]

@Daikenki He told you something. So you should respond back.

[@danielm4114]

Another engrossing cross country sojourn from KZbin's best road dog. Really appreciate the thoroughness of the description and the unobtrusive and informative three corner heads up display during the video- fun to follow along. Thanks again UC.

[@unclecoolie]

Thank you! I really appreciate it!

[@williamkinsey8174]

I'm just about to reach Eisenhower tunnel and the crossing of the rocky mountains after finishing your Seattle to New York trip. Unfortunately this year the dewpoint is not cooperating. So things are taken longer than I like. I do have a backup plan but I much prefer being here. Hope you're well unclecoolie thanks so much for all the adventures.

[@dustinwall1552]

Thank you, Unclecoolie for sharing another epic journey. I appreciate the extra time and effort of getting off the interstate, especially in Western Kansas and Eastern Colorado. Strangely hypnotic to see such a featureless landscape filling the entire horizon!

[@unclecoolie]

Thank you! I loved doing this road trip. I also really liked driving in western KS-eastern CO. It was also cool watching the elevations continually increase on my GPS while doing the drive.

[@unclecoolie]

Also, I remember my ears popping while driving across Greeley County KS, which was a first for me while driving across the Great Plains.

[@centuryrox]

Nice route! It's really nice to see the country on roads other than Interstates! Love all the little towns in the midwest...and the vast spaces between them!

[@unclecoolie]

Thank you! I really enjoyed doing this, in large part, because I was able to mostly avoid interstates. I also loved seeing the small towns up, close and personal. Interstates just don't have that.

[@Carrick1]

I always feel sad when we get to the end of the journey! Thanks for the ride!

[@unclecoolie]

I hope to have my latest cross-country trip uploaded the first week of February. Stay tuned!

[@sgoldkuh]

For me as a German, it is unbelievable to see that there are stretches of road in the States where you can only drive straight for what feels like an eternity. Especially in Kansas and Colorado. Even if not much really happens, I love road trip videos across the country. As a non-American, you get a great impression of how diverse the country and nature is. Where are all the Cops, we see in Hollywood Roadmovies :D

[@unclecoolie]

Thanks! You can sometimes see cops, but overall I mostly only saw them while I was driving through bigger cities.

[@blckbldng]

you can get similar feeling in Europe driving through Spain

[@yassine20909]

I like real time versions with sound, they're more immersive. Thank you unclecoolie for all the rides you gave us.

[@unclecoolie]

Thank you! After I upload the real time of my TX-VA trip, I'll be uploading the real time versions of this trip.

[@kianyt7987]

@@unclecoolie yes please do so, I look forward to it!

[@llywelynapgruffyddapllywel3571]

There must be something wrong with me! I drive trucks for a living, albeit it in Europe, rather than the states, then when I come home, I watch hours of you driving across your great country!!! Well, I must be in the right profession. Thanks for sharing as ever Uncle.

[@unclecoolie]

Thank you! I appreciate your support! Since you drive a truck in Europe, you should get a dash cam. I've only had the chance to do a little bit of road trip video in southern Germany but nowhere else in Europe.

[@Tribeca40]

Great video! Saw it from start to finish. The variety of roads used in it made it very enjoyable! Also saw your Washington DC -Seattle video and thought it was very nice. Great job again!

[@unclecoolie]

Thank you! I enjoyed this road trip as much as any that I've ever done. I'd wanted to do a similar road trip to this all my life, and actively planned this for 3+ years, which made it all the more rewarding to have finally done it.

[@daveaufradern6658]

Thank you ! Through your videos i get a good picture of what the US looks like outside the big cities. Fascinating and very informative ! And all the additional information (city and county names, elevation, distance etc.) is simply great.

[@unclecoolie]

Thank you! I really appreciate it.

[@WiIDChilD]

@@unclecoolie please ADD sound to next videos , thanks!

[@unclecoolie]

@@WiIDChilD I add the ambient sound for my real time drives. But I only add music to my shorter time lapse videos. I know most of my views are from people watching on their TVs, so they have the option of listening to whatever they want instead.

[@WiIDChilD]

@@unclecoolie ok pal, thanks

[@johnmarks8637]

Thanks again, UC, for another great trip across this beautiful country. I’ve been on several portions of it myself, but it was great seeing some of “the roads less travelled.” Especially US 50, the Monument Valley/Navaho Nation roads, and the back door to LA thru the Mohave Desert. I hope you are doing well.

[@unclecoolie]

Thank you! I really appreciate it! I loved doing this drive, and I'm glad that I mostly avoided interstates, particularly in the central states of the US, such as Kansas. The drive through Kansas of this trip was much more enjoyable than the drive I did in 2018 which was entirely on I-70.

[@TheAlternativeDrivingChannel]

I've been waiting for this video for like 5 years now. Thank you! Greetings from Transylvania!

[@unclecoolie]

Greetings from Virginia. Thanks! 😁

[@mattsarizonaaerials]

I literally just got done with a 31-day trip around the U.S.A., beginning and ending in Glendale, AZ (6/30/2023-8/5/2023). Went through 26 states in sort of a counter-clockwise circular fashion. I captured dash cam video of the entire trip as well. In looking for ideas on how to publish it, I stumbled across your channel. You must put a lot of thought, planning, and post-edit work into these videos. I love these videos, and you've given me some great ideas. Keep them up. I subbed your channel, and look forward to more from you.

[@unclecoolie]

Wow. Great job! That's something that I would really love to do, especially in an RV. One day. Yeah, the amount of effort to make these videos is a lot. After finishing my trip, I open up Virb on my MacBook and go through the video clips (recorded in 25-minute increments) and make sure that the GPS data matches the clips, and then I usually speed up the clips to 4x (although I chose 2x for my upload last night) which takes some time. After exporting the video clip from Virb (which is usually a whole day's worth for each export), I then go through the video and make a list of different points of interests, such as when I enter a county, change roads, or make stops. I track the list in Excel, and put the time stamp next to each item. I also make a separate list of which highway signs I will need to create. Once I'm done going through the whole clip and listing the POIs, I then create the graphic overlays (the map overlay of the white route line in the top left corner, and the highway signs). Then I remove the backgrounds to all of these .png files (because I create each .png as a 1920x1080 image so that they overlay seamlessly onto the video during editing). Then I do the editing using Final Cut Pro. This whole process took me about 60 hours to create this NY-CA video, because I did the initial exports from Virb in 5 different videos--one for each day of driving.

[@mattsarizonaaerials]

@@unclecoolie thank you for your response. As I thought, you put an incredible amount of work into producing your road trip videos, and it shows. If I had to guess, I'd say you are either retired, and have lots of time to do this stuff, or you are self-made somehow, and have lots of time to do this stuff. 🙂 Either way, I love what you have done. I am not retired...yet...but getting close. I work full-time, therefore I do not have nearly as much time as I would like to enable me to apply as much attention to my hobby as you. I am also relatively new to the editing and post processing process. I only started because I enjoy flying my drones, and I wanted to be able to produce some nice aerial videos to share on KZbin. I have subbed your channel, so I will get notified when you submit new work. Again, I look forward to more from you, and thank you. ❤👏👍

[@mungoslade]

Love this! I don't know how other people enjoy these videos, but i like to put on my favorite road trip music, sit on the couch with a drink and a book, and watch you drive. I've been on countless roadtrips, and the view out the windshield is nostalgic

[@unclecoolie]

Thank you! I have to admit that I do that myself. I've even watched others who have started uploading videos like these with information.

[@tr00th]

Guess who back, back again! King of road trips with yet another amazing adventure. Thanks!

[@unclecoolie]

😎

[@tonybates6551]

One of my favorite videos you've done. Love the state/county roads throughout.

[@unclecoolie]

Thank you! This was my favorite road trip I've done to date.

[@Slockgaming750]

​@@unclecoolieit's also my favourite road trip

[@elpabli001]

Wow, I'm very impressed, this is one of the best road trip videos I have ever watched from you, and you perfectly hit on the decision to drive aside of the interstates, because I was able to see new towns, monuments and landscapes I had no idea that they existed. I love especially when you drove US-50 crossing Missouri, the forest, the towns and the farms gave me a feeling of relaxation, adding the detail of a cloudy day. I almost fall asleep when you were crossing second half of Kansas but at least as I listen to my music in parallel with your road trip videos, I didn't fall asleep in that part lol. When you entered to Colorado, you were right about the state of road maintenance, especially CO-94, it's been one of the worst highways I've been able to see, even any regional highway of my country (Chile) is better maintained than that highway and other roads of Colorado, seriously, poor signage and repaint of white and yellow stripes. And when you entered to the Rocky Mountains, it gave me lots of flashbacks from the California to New York video, you drove by many routes you drove that time in that video and I was able to discover monument valley and see again Grand canyon, simply beautiful. You're the king of the kings of road trip videos, this video bring me a lot of nostalgic moments when I watched your first long road trip videos, especially when you drove between Colorado and California lol. I have a question about this: how did you organize your eating times when you do road trips like this or what do you eat when you do road trips like this? I hope your reply bro, greetings from Chile and keep doing well unclecoolie :DD

[@unclecoolie]

Greetings from Virginia (outside of Washington, DC area). Thanks. I appreciate it. When I plan my trip my trips, I do so in advance. With the video editing itself, I used the Garmin Virb Ultra 30, which records GPS information, with a 512 GB micro SD card. The Virb software displays the GPS information per my selection, and I use Final Cut Pro for all other editing. I use Paint/Photoshop for all of the graphics, such as the highway signs and the map overlays.

[@AmbientWalking]

Liking this 101%! So much to see! So much to hear! Thank YOU!

[@unclecoolie]

Thank you!

[@elpabli001]

The king of the road trip videos has returned with a surprise video :DD Well I'll be watching detailed this road trip video when I finish watching the other road trip going through Texas :>

[@unclecoolie]

😊

[@soluuution8721]

Awesome job, wonderful video. I truly appreciate how you tracked all that information on the overlay, it must have taken a while to edit all this.

[@unclecoolie]

Thanks! Yes, it took me several days to edit this.

[@whateversusan]

This was great! I loved that you got off the highways and went through the countryside. Monument Valley was amazing.

[@unclecoolie]

Thank you! I enjoyed this drive the most of all of my drives to date, and I was glad that I could mostly avoid interstates. My only regrets are not driving up Pikes Peak in Colorado Springs, and not stopping at the Totem Pole when I entered Arizona. I guess I now have reasons for revisiting these areas in the future. 😊

[@FunkyDPL]

10:09:52 When we visited the 4 Corners on our cross-country drive, we stayed at the Cozy Inn there on the left as you turned south on US-491. Cortez was a neat little town. It was also the first time I got to see snow-covered mountains. There aren't any of those where we live in Florida!

[@unclecoolie]

Cool. I've never driven in the southwest part of the country in winter. I hear Grand Canyon and Bryce Canyon are spectacular with snow cover.

[@joelchong5562]

What a huge country...seeing the topographic slowly changing from Kansas to Colorado

[@unclecoolie]

I agree. I had turned on my portable GPS when I was in eastern KS, and it was cool to slowly see the elevations gradually increase, while it appeared to get flatter. I also didn't realized that the first mountain that I saw soon after I entered CO-94 West was Pikes Peak, and that it took forever to get close to it--well over an hour. Now I wish I'd stopped to drive up Pikes Peak as I had enough time to get to my motel in Salida. Next time.

[@josphatmuiruri3271]

Uncle at it again....I was starting to think you'll probably not post any trips soon...Thanks for this,let me get right on it👍👍👍👍

[@unclecoolie]

Thanks! After doing this, I plan to take a break from long road trips for a while. However, if an opportunity comes up in near future, I'll go for it. Otherwise, it will likely be next summer before I plan to do another trip. I now have tons of real time video to upload in the meantime.

[@phoque022]

10:00:59 Lmaooo I like how the milepost says "68.9" instead of 69. Reminds me of how the 420s are replaced with 419.9 or something similar

[@wolfboy701]

The on-screen information in this video is incredible and very helpful, just wish the speed was in MPH instead of KM/H and the distance was in miles instead of kilometers so I won’t be guessing everything and then having to look it up. Love the fact that the temperature is in both Celsius and Fahrenheit so I can get a sense of both. Really amazing video. Subscribed for sure!

[@unclecoolie]

Thanks! nearly 2/3 of all my viewers are from outside the U.S., which is why I use metric. I will use feet and miles for the real time videos of this trip though.

[@unclecoolie]

The Virb software that the camera uses only displays metric or English, not both, unfortunately.

[@wolfboy701]

Thank you because I’m from the United States in Pennsylvania and it would be easier for me to see the feet and miles in distance instead of the other way.

[@unclecoolie]

@@wolfboy701 I have the first part--NYC to Cincinnati--uploaded in real time already.

[@penguinsfan1216]

Awesome video as always, these videos are awesome to scratch that road trip itch! You actually went right through my hometown of Newton, KS on the US-50!

[@unclecoolie]

Awesome, thanks! When I originally planned this road trip, I had tentatively planned to spend the night in Newton because I was originally going to do the road trip starting from Washington, DC instead of NYC.

[@penguinsfan1216]

@@unclecoolieMan, small world! That’s awesome, I definitley think you picked a fantastic route to say the least with a great combination of Midwest scenery, desert scenery (that drive through Monument Valley and the Joshua Trees, wow!) keep up the awesome trips! This one and the LA to NYC time lapse are my favorites but really enjoy the speed on this one. You can really notice the small details, seriously awesome job!

[@rafael.vitoria]

Soo! Another coast to coast video. It's nice to see you still doing, these long trips in specific. I discovered your channel back in 2018 and I even listened to music while watching some of your shortest videos, even commented back then. If things go well I might visit US this year, I have family there. As I am from Portugal, it's sure an experience beyond anything I can have in expectations.

[@unclecoolie]

Thanks! I also plan to visit Portugal. I'd love to do a road trip from there to to eastern Europe.

[@rafael.vitoria]

@@unclecoolie the closest I saw to that was back in October/November, some teens from Lisbon decided to hitchhike from Lisbon to Qatar. Ever since I never saw something like that done here in Europe. In case you wonder, their channel is ''Andamente''. Although their content is often based on trips (and interaction with the places), it's sad they don't have their videos translated to english, I'm sure their channel would blow.

[@unclecoolie]

@@rafael.vitoria Yeah. But there are some overseas videos that I've watched with non-English subtitles and speech. YT does have the ability to translate the languages for CC, but it has to be setup for that during editing I think.

[@iainbarlow7977]

It is so good to watch these road trips in USA , I'm in the UK with a great interest in anything American, I thank very much for doing these road trip good to watch and very relaxing please keep it up 😊

[@unclecoolie]

Thank you!

[@highway2heaven91]

Finally able to get a chance to watch this road trip, just over a year to the date that it was posted. It was a pretty great video from start to finish. It was a long one, taking almost two weeks to finish (About 1 hour per day) but it was well worth the drive. It was also great to include landmarks such as Coney Island, Pike's Peak, The Grand Canyon, One World Trade Center and Santa Monica Beach. While many people commented positively on the lack of continuous interstate driving used in this video, the points where you used it (such as I-68 in Maryland or I-44 in Missouri) really mattered. You also did a good job of trying to keep the scenery going by driving through areas such as the Ohio River Valley or the Ozarks in Missouri to keep the viewer from getting too bored from seeing too much farmland in the Great Plains, although I loved the transition from more forested east to the near-barren High Plains starting in Western Kansas and ending at the Rockies. The most breathtaking part were the buttes in Monument Valley at the Utah-Arizona border. Much of this drive purposely avoided cities as the only major cities in this video were Cincinnati, St. Louis, Kansas City and Colorado Springs (aside from NYC and LA) and of these, only the downtowns of NYC, Cincinnati, and Colorado Springs were featured in this video. It seemed like the purpose of this drive was to showcase rural America to international viewers, which was more than accomplished if it was. The only downside was that there were a few longer parts recorded at night, particularly in the drive out of the Appalachians and the transition from forest back to desert in Arizona but these were probably unavoidable due to scheduling and longer driving times. Also it would have been nice to somehow squeeze in the Four Corners Monument. I was also wondering if you could include mileage signs in your videos. All in all, this was another enjoyable masterpiece. I can't wait to see which drive you will do next!

[@unclecoolie]

Thank you! I'd always wanted to do this road trip, since I was a kid when my dad took us to Santa Monica on a week-long road trip. I tried to avoid interstate highways too much, but, as you pointed out, I did use them a lot on the first day, mainly because I was running behind in time. I had considered just staying on US-22 all the way into Ohio, but I got delayed, which is why I still didn't get to Chillicothe until late in the evening. One other thing that I regret not doing is driving up Pikes Peak when I had the extra time to do it that day. Next time.

[@andreszeledon5273]

Omg you made it, you have for sure that I gonna watch it to the end

[@ringa1770]

this video brings back great memories from past roadtrips ive been on. im about to go on a road trip today and head from kansas city to oklahoma city. although the great plains may look boring, i find it comforting lol. i love driving through kansas. thank you for these videos.

[@unclecoolie]

Thank you! I agree about driving across the Great Plains. It's cool watching the elevations gradually increase, while the topography seems to get flatter.

[@kaijatuuna9566]

Thanks again for an excellent video! A great plus is the total length of the trip, after resetting the trip meter on "pit stops". I try to read road signs very carefully in order to learn geography and sights (I do not live in U.S.). Sometimes it is very difficult, especially on cloudy and rainy weather. It is very fine to choose "minor" roads instead of main roads. I read somewhere that the road 50 is called "the loneliest road in the whole U.S.". Why is it so? Specially I like "watery" landscapes (sea, lakes), mountains and fine bridges, like 3:17:11. I also have noticed that you honor your veterans and presidents by owning them bridges and roads, like 3:26:07.

[@unclecoolie]

Hi, thanks! I tried to use side roads more often than freeways, although it's difficult to avoid freeways completely. US-50 is known as the loneliest road in America in the Nevada desert, due to that part of the country being so desolate. I have done a drive across that part of US-50 in this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/l2WueWVtZpedg9E starting at about the 8:00:00 mark in it.

[@treyxo_]

Love watching these videos while listening to music in the background. Was cool to see you driving through the city I live at when you were in SoCal!

[@unclecoolie]

Awesome!

[@richardthomas5362]

Finished. I really liked this trip. Thanks for doing it.

[@unclecoolie]

Thank you! I really appreciate it. I enjoyed doing this road trip more than any other that I've done over the last 5.5 years.

[@loupohl6991]

Was cool seeing 50 through Missouri, surprised me how nice and scenic that state is. Indiana and Illinois were putting me to sleep and then Kansas put me right back to sleep, hahaha. Nice vid altogether. Look forward to the next one.

[@unclecoolie]

Thank you! I agree. The drive through Missouri was very scenic--more scenic than I expected. Even Indiana has some nice lush woods and hills in some places, which also surprised me. Illinois, well, I've driven across Illinois in several places, and that state just lacks any topography. Kansas was nice for me because of the gradual increase in elevations in the western part of the state. My ears even popped while I was driving in Greeley County, which had never happened to me driving across the Great Plains before.

[@motorradler1982]

Thank You for uploading. The best video I have ever seen.❤❤❤❤❤

[@unclecoolie]

Thanks! My pleasure! 😊

[@MrNinja-xh1ys]

Awesome video!! The road trips I like the most are the East-West road trips! It feels like going home, although I don't even live in the United States. Thanks again a lot for all the roads trips you've uploaded, and especially this new one! I really enjoy your videos!

[@unclecoolie]

Thank you very much!

[@antontupchii6457]

And I was one of those who used to request this. Thank you!

[@unclecoolie]

This trip has been the most requested ever since I first uploaded the CA-NY video. 😎

[@aaronates3095]

You satisfied my Hwy 50 fetish. I live at “route” 50’s terminus on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. I’ve wondered about taking it all the way West. Also, my grandparents took 50 west from Cincy to St. Louis… P.S… I’m thankful that you showcased a journey through the Eastern Shore down to Miami. 😌

[@unclecoolie]

Thanks! I've always wanted to do the entirety of US-50, so I was happy to at least do almost two days' driving on it. In October 2019, I drove on it eastbound from Lake Tahoe to central Utah, so I'm missing the section in eastern Utah, nearly all of Colorado and California, and western Kansas to do.

[@ILikeActions]

Thank you so much for this videos, my biggest dream is to do trip like this by myself someday

[@unclecoolie]

My pleasure! I'd wanted to do this road trip for many years.

[@TristanWiggins-m7k]

Very nice video! Diverse country right? I like how the landscape went from trees to very little trees to no trees at all and completely flat 7:50:32 to mountains to desert. You should make a hyperlapse version of this like the ultimate east coast road trip. Would be crazy to see the full scenery in just under an hour!

[@unclecoolie]

Thank you! This was my favorite road trip to date. That part that you referenced in western KS, while very flat, is higher in elevation than most of the mountains on the east coast, which is interesting to me. I will be doing a hyperlapse of this, but first I will be uploading videos from my trip to Kenya that I just got back from this week.

[@TristanWiggins-m7k]

Oh yeah I did see that amazing African safari video. It reminded me of the Madagascar movie.

[@musicmann9]

very cool. I played this back at 300%, knocking it back to about 4 hours, and it was perfect!!!

[@unclecoolie]

Cool. I'm actually working on the hyper-lapse version of this video now that will be under 2 hours.

[@qnader9195]

i wish i could have time to travel across the country several times like you > thank you for all your videos

[@unclecoolie]

This was a trip that I had wanted to do for many years, and probably the most-requested road trip that I've ever had. I really enjoyed finally being able to do this.

[@you2be839]

Gee man, I'm still somewhat mentally exhausted just from watching and deeply analyzing your California to New York video some 2 years ago... and there you are, again at it with another long road trip across the same region! haha I guess I really don't have what it takes to do such long road trips on a regular basis!!

[@unclecoolie]

This trip was tiring, but I loved every moment of it. With that said, it will likely be at least 6 months before I do another big road trip, which will likely not even be as big as this.

[@matthansen401]

Great video :) also would love if you uploaded more hyper lapses! Those ones always help when you're on a tight schedule but still wanna watch the full trips

[@unclecoolie]

Thank you! I will do a hyper lapse of this trip eventually. First, I have a slew of real time videos that I will be uploading: the two days of my TX-VA trip; this trip (Five days' worth of videos); and a bonus video from this trip: Santa Monica to Las Vegas. After that, which will take me several months, I'll work on this in hyper lapse.

[@floridaandpuertoricomappin9893]

I LOVE IT UNCLECOOLIE I WILL WATCH IT RIGHT NOW, KEEP IT UP

[@unclecoolie]

Thank you! I will try.

[@michaelhall74]

Great video, one that includes roads I have been on, including Wolf Creek Pass and the historic U.S. 66. When we took 66 in 1959, it was famous, thanks to Steinbeck, but it hadn't yet been replaced by the interstates. It was one of the greatest experiences of my life.

[@unclecoolie]

Thank you! I only got to know US-66 after first watching National Lampoon's Vacation when I was little.

[@DarkElvishChick98]

These videos are amazing

[@glenn07777]

Unclecoolie is back! What a trip! Amazing western Kansas, the infinity itself.

[@unclecoolie]

I agree! I really enjoyed western Kansas. It was cool seeing how high the elevations were getting even though it was pretty flat. My ears actually popped while I was driving through Greeley County, which never happened while driving across the Great Plains before.

[@glenn07777]

@@unclecoolie Hi again Unclecoolie! If you remember, we where talking a couple of years ago, I was about to publish a trip of mine but I was too lazy. Well, I finished it and you can check it in my channel. It was from northern Denmark to Greece. Speed x 4, 7h30m. I do this trip alone every year in two legs spending a night at Vienna, cutting the distance into two halves. However in this particular wife and kids were with me, so it took 3 legs for obvious reasons. One night in Dresden and two nights in Belgrade thus cutting the distance in three equals. Countries: Denmark, Germany, Czech, Slovakia, Hungary, Serbia, North Macedonia, Greece. Distance 2756 Km. Car: Yaris Hybrid. Camera: Garmin dashcam 55. Worth seeing: A storm while entering Belgrade and a subsequent flooding in the streets after 13+ hours of driving. 4am and is already dusk in Denmark (57 degrees north), sunset at about 10:30pm. Tip: Never attempt to drive in a river with a hybrid.

[@unclecoolie]

@@glenn07777 Awesome. I'll check it out.

[@Tomsbananacakes]

Yes! Finally! Yet another cross country road trip video! I was just in CO this past summer and we drove from Rochester, NY. Thank you for uploading this, I'm looking forward to it!

[@unclecoolie]

Thank you! I loved doing this road trip about as much as any road trips that I've ever done. That's why I immediately started editing the video of this when I got back home instead of the real time versions of my TX-VA trip. Now I'll work on those and the real time versions of this trip.

[@autumnarisal]

1:17:10 strange coming across this random video and finding that you made a pit stop at a Sheetz ive gone to probably hundreds of times now, really enjoyed that you stayed in Williamsport :]

[@unclecoolie]

Awesome! I'd never been to Williamsport before, even though I've traveled on I-70 through that area a million times.

[@offydannerson8049]

YES YES YES! Perfect route, I am SO looking forward to watching this

[@unclecoolie]

Thank you! I had a tough time deciding which routing to do. Driving extensively on US-50, if not the entirety of US-50, was something that I had really wanted to do, but not more than driving from Coney Island, NY to Santa Monica, which I had visualized doing for many years. So, I sort've combined the two trips: I drove on US-50 for more than 1250 miles in this trip.

[@doowop54]

So nice to see a new video from you

[@unclecoolie]

I have many more to come.

[@eastpeak74]

Love this one!! Have been reliving my last trip on your 101 west coast drive. Can’t wait to get back, but it’s a long way from NZ!!

[@unclecoolie]

Awesome! Thanks!

[@AllyMcLesbian]

Thank you for posting again - there is no substitute for driving between New York and Los Angeles, and I had enjoyed your previous video too! (P.S. Wolf Creek Pass is definitely worth driving through as well.)

[@unclecoolie]

Thank you! I enjoyed doing this road trip about as much as any road trip that I've ever done.

[@whosjah4473]

Oh god I can’t keep up with the videos. I haven’t watched half of the Seattle to Washington videos. Have barely even made it quarter way with the Virginia to Texas and now here am I watching the New York to California video 😭. But I really love the uploads. Really gets me through tough times. ❤️ Also I love how u hardly ever stop at fast food places for breakfast lunch or dinner. U just depend on gas station supermarket. I like that mindset

[@unclecoolie]

Thank you very much! Once in a while I'll stop at a fast food place, but usually it's at a place that I don't see on the east coast, such as In N' Out Burger, which I did when I drove to Las Vegas after this video. Otherwise, I get snacks such as nuts, trail mix, peanut butter crackers, etc., along with a case of water bottles, before I do long drives like this.

[@davidstronach3261]

I am very impressed you drove on the interstate the whole way almost well done video.

[@unclecoolie]

Thanks! Actually, I only drove on interstates for about 40% of this road trip.

[@happygoth09]

I've watched and/or played the Washington, DC to Seattle, WA video last 2020 while we're all indoors because of the lockdown and will complete viewing this another great road trip video! 💕

[@unclecoolie]

Thanks! I remember watching a lot of my old videos that year too.

[@goodgirlOshi]

Thank you for this roadtrip. Amazing!

[@unclecoolie]

My pleasure! This is a road trip that I'd wanted to do for many years, and I enjoyed doing this as much as any road trip that I've ever done.

[@Slockgaming750]

This video was really good, I loved it

[@williamkinsey4979]

Absolutely awesome unclecoolie! Thank you! Your like wish forfillment! This is going to be fun!lol Right now I'm still trying to make way slowly from Seattle to Washington DC but when that's done this is absolutely next on my list.

[@unclecoolie]

Thank you! I really appreciate that!

[@paull2937]

Which states have you NOT been to? I don’t think you went to Vermont, Alaska, or Hawaii before. It would have been nice if you did a New England road trip in mid-late October, it gets colorful here. Right now color is at its peak here in coastal Connecticut, however lower elevation Vermont, peak is probably around October 10th. It would be cool if there was a road trip from Key West to Barrow, Alaska. And it would be cool (or hot depending on how you look at it) if you did a road trip across the big island in Hawaii. Also why at 12:59:39 there is a sudden drop in temperature from 100° to 90°?

[@unclecoolie]

Correct. Those are the only 3 states that I haven't been to. I had planned doing a trip up to New England this October, and driving into Vermont, but having just done this road trip (which was combined with a work trip that took me away from my family for 9 days), I couldn't justify doing yet another one so soon. Doing that NE road trip in the fall is the ideal time to do it, but I also don't want to wait another year to do it. I'll do it eventually, along with visiting AK and HI too.

[@jamesparson]

Time to visit Canada

[@kaijatuuna9566]

@@jamesparson, there are some trips from Canada 😊.

[@AmericanOutbackAmazing]

I love your road trips! I wish I could travel outside the PNW more. My favorite videos of yours are the ones of winter that have snow. 😀

[@unclecoolie]

Thanks! After doing the drive from Seattle to Washington, DC last January, I don't think I'll be doing any more winter road trips, at least not in the northern states.

[@AmericanOutbackAmazing]

@@unclecoolie Any drive you do will be fun, I don't get a chance to drive over most of the country that often. With gas prices so high out west it is even worse, when it cost $90-100 to fill up a 20 gallon tank it takes some of the fun out of traveling.

[@unclecoolie]

@@AmericanOutbackAmazing I understand that. I think I spent $500 at least in gas for this trip.

[@Eachitndie]

The mark of a true road professional is the use of a dark towel to prevent sun glare from the shiny vinyl dash. And for that reason alone...I'm in.

[@unclecoolie]

I learned that lesson from my drive back in August 2017 from Omaha to Santa Monica.

[@t1r3deye5]

This was my favorite drive for decades (before an illness stopped me from driving). Watching the country change differently in different seasons, feeling the flow of the road as a living river of sorts, stopping in smaller towns, taking 2-lane whenever possible--far better than a meditation retreat! (and cheaper, if you sleep in the car!)

[@unclecoolie]

I'd always wanted to do this drive since I was a kid when my father did a similar drive.

[@redwhiteblueyou520]

My son loves to watch your road trip videos. We live in the same county as you, in Centreville!!!!

[@unclecoolie]

Hey, that's awesome! Yep, I'm just south of Reston Town Center.

[@thomasvlaskampiii6850]

That's a long journey. I hope to make it one day. Or something longer. My wife and I are discussing driving from Indiana to Costa Rica but we'll see

[@unclecoolie]

That would be awesome.

[@vitorants72]

My favorite video! Beautiful trip

[@unclecoolie]

Thank you! This was my favorite trip to date!

[@alexdavid6878]

Congratulations for the beautiful work

[@unclecoolie]

Thank you!

[@rafael.vitoria]

After my US experience it was a must for me to comment this video, again. If I had to pick only, one KZbin video I could watch for the rest of my life, this one should be. After my trip to that country I can say I witnessed a lot and yet, the only place I've been to that appears in video was the WTC in Manhattan (a reference point shown in video as well), the sight from the top of the Tower is breathtaking. Same way it hasn't been pleasant to see with my eyes the cemetery right at the next block. In rest, my trip's main destination was Alaska. I wonder whether you thought about a cross country trip from the US main land to Fairbanks or even Anchorage where I've been to. Clearly a dream I accomplished, Alaska earned a place in my heart with no doubt. I hope I will be able to visit Colorado one day, that one is another bucket list place for me side by side with Alaska.

[@unclecoolie]

I want to do a trip up to Alaska soon, as well as Hawaii. Those are the only two states that I've never been to.

[@brendanshaw2057]

thank you for using my suggestion w/ CA-62!

[@unclecoolie]

Oh absolutely! The only other would've been to stay on I-40 until I-15, but I wanted to drive back through the areas that I drove through in my CA-NY video.

[@V01t2]

I think this is my favorite video. I'm an ex trucker and completely recognize stretches of 50. Thank you so much for not driving the freeway. It's funny because in the beginning I'm like; he's not driving this the whole way is he? Two days later, I'm still watching it. ❤‍🔥❤‍🔥❤‍🔥 The thing I miss most of my million mile plus career is going through these little towns and boroughs you've never heard of in the middle of the night - and imagining what life would be like ONLY knowing that "insignificant" little corner. What if I were the one asleep while one of THEM were rolling through? The takeaway is I'm a fan😀

[@unclecoolie]

Thank you! I've done several road trips over the last 5 years, but too often I've had to mostly remain on interstates due to lack of time available to do the trips. I was glad that I was able to have 5 full days to do this road trip. I agree that being able to see small towns up and close is so much more rewarding than the rather limited views from the interstates.

[@thuncourt013]

why is most of the overlay gone after the grand canyon until the hotel departure (the next morning)?

[@unclecoolie]

I had to use a backup camera when I left Grand Canyon Village, because I accidentally forgot to turn off my Garmin when I stopped to walk around, and the Garmin overheated and wouldn't turn back on when I was ready to leave. In hind sight, I could've waited to let the camera cool off as the backup camera doesn't record GPS.

[@lmellobarbosa]

Thank you for this amazing video! Could you make a list of the needed equipment?

[@unclecoolie]

Thanks! For four years now I've been using the Garmin Virb Ultra 30, which records GPS information, with a 512 GB micro SD card. The Virb software displays the GPS information per my selection, and I use Final Cut Pro for all other editing. I use Paint/Photoshop for all of the graphics, such as the highway signs and the map overlays. The 512 GM micro SD card can record about 16 hours' worth of 2160p video at 30fps. I bring my MacBook Pro with an external hard drive (a 5 TB drive in this case) to back up the video each night at the hotel.

[@JavaFoxholery]

Wooooo!!!!! It's in kilometers!!! This Canadian thanks you

[@andylee2766]

I think this is your the best video

[@unclecoolie]

Thank you! This was my favorite drive of all of the drives that I've done over the last 5.5 years.

[@missingchannel]

Sweet trip! ❤The added bonus is to bump my own listening music whiles you drive. 😊😀

[@unclecoolie]

Thanks!

[@thimiosskrimpas4232]

Cool roadtrip, up n down the roads was same with CA-NY in 2017 but with differences the miled road in this roadtrip was the US-50, pass through the Missouri and Kansas states and Utah with Monumental Valley from Colorado and some miles on Historic US-66. Please make roadtrip full drive on existing segments of Historic US-66.

[@unclecoolie]

I've considered doing that one day.

[@TrangleC]

Thanks for sharing. I'm really jealous. Would love to do a trip like that myself.

[@unclecoolie]

You should.

[@sagarsehrawat6622]

Driving into the monument valley through forrest gump hill was awesome! Can't wait for the real time videos. Thanks Unclecoolie for your work.

[@unclecoolie]

Thank you! The next video will be real time.

[@nickgodoy7682]

The Colorado part is breathtaking

[@unclecoolie]

I agree. I especially loved being able to see Pikes Peak from about 100 miles away. I didn't know that that was Pikes Peak until after I got to Colorado Springs.

[@deaustin4018]

would love to see NY to Fairbanks, AK. I did that in the seventies in 7 days, long before there was pavement on the Alaska Highway. Would love to see what it looks like today.

[@unclecoolie]

I've been wanting to do a drive up to Alaska for at least 4 years now. I might be able to do it next year, but it will be a long shot.

[@danielmerklin5082]

Great to see you driving on the loneliest road in the us. Route 50 goes from ocean city MD to Sacramento CA area

[@unclecoolie]

Thanks. I've always wanted to do the complete drive of US-50, which is why I worked so much of it (~1,266 miles) into this drive. FYI, it's only called the Loneliest Road in America in Nevada, and when I drove across it in 2019, there were a decent number of vehicles on it to refute that claim. :)

[@christang2113]

What’s the use of the black towel on the dashboard? To reduce reflection for the camera?

[@unclecoolie]

That's exactly why. I used to use black clothes, but that looks ghetto in hindsight.

[@elenawester9359]

I would love if you made a hyperlapse version of this

[@unclecoolie]

I plan to. I just got back from Kenya, and I have lots of video from that trip that I will be uploading first though.

[@aldocuneo1140]

Da Verrazzano Bridge. If you go to Italy, Tuscany, go to Greve in Chianti and visit the Verrazzano Castle, where Giivanni da ( from ) Verrazzano was born.

[@unclecoolie]

Awesome. I've always wanted to go to Italy. That's where my maternal grandparents came from.

[@Barley150]

I'm at 9:22 and enjoying every soothing mile. Like you, I prefer to get off the interstates and get on the two-lane roads. Would it be possible to see a list of the routes you are taking on this trip? Charles Johnson, Sacramento CA

[@unclecoolie]

Thanks. I agree, although it's very difficult to stay off the interstates entirely. If you send me your email address, I can send you the list of points-of-interests for this video. My email is [e-mail].

[@williamkinsey4979]

Just about to cross into Minnesota unclecoolie Quarter speed is working well

[@unclecoolie]

Minnesota?

[@MatthewBluefox]

19:00 - After passing the truck, most people in Europe would go to the right lane, but I know it's different in the US, also seeing trucks going 130 km/h sometimes is crazy. :)

[@unclecoolie]

When there are 3 or more lanes, I tend to avoid the right-most lane as oftentimes it's occupied with slow vehicles, it has traffic entering the highway, or the lane ends as an exit-only.

[@accordwhip3467]

please upload the real-time video of this trip just like you did for the DC to SeaTac trip you did several years back! Would love to watch that and I'm sure it would be a hit

[@unclecoolie]

I have the first two days of this uploaded in real time already. Look for the links in this video's description. I'm working on part 3 now and should have it uploaded in the next 2 weeks.

[@Tomsbananacakes]

11:24:05 GPS signal lost Also just curious, which segments of US-50 from Ocean City, MD to Sacramento, CA have you NOT done in your videos?

[@unclecoolie]

Yeah, I accidentally forgot to make sure that I turned off the camera when I arrived at the Grand Canyon Village, so without any air moving in the car, and being in the sun, the camera overheated and turned off. Fortunately, I had a backup camera, which I used from GCV to Williams, but the GPS does not work on it for some reason. The only sections of US-50 that I've never been on, from east to west: the junction of I-495 (Capital Beltway) in MD to northeast DC; Deerfield, KS to Salida, CO; Poncha Springs, CO to Salina, UT; and Kingsbury, NV to Sacramento, CA.

[@johncook1076]

Thank you very much !!!

[@unclecoolie]

My pleasure! Thank you!

[@MangoTato]

Gran video. Puedes a futuro mostrar el recorrido de Miami a San Diego. Gracias.

[@unclecoolie]

Thank you! I've had a lot of requests for a similar trip, such as I-10. I'll see what the future brings. After doing this, it will most likely be sometime in 2023 before I do another big one.

[@MangoTato]

@@unclecoolie Grácias

[@Gonner-cd6xn]

I watched this video when I was sleeping. when I woke up I was on Kansas. This video is sooo long

[@unclecoolie]

Wait until I upload this in real time. It will be about 54 total hours, over at least 5 videos.

[@DavidMullins-qu8mk]

The farms in Kansas were super big!

[@unclecoolie]

Very true.

[@thelonelywolf88]

I never liked going along US 22 through Bethlehem and Allentown, PA. It's always crazy packed and the on ramps don't give you any time to merge

[@unclecoolie]

That was my first drive driving on US-22. It could've been much worse.

[@thelonelywolf88]

@@unclecoolie well I 80 going through East Stroudsburg, PA is far worse

[@unclecoolie]

@@thelonelywolf88 I can believe that.

[@silviomachado7238]

Amazing trip 🛣️

[@unclecoolie]

Thank you!

[@danirox4581]

This video deserves more views

[@unclecoolie]

Thank you!

[@outbackigloo6489]

At around 3:03:20, you misspelled Milford (just east of Cincinnati) as “Miflord.”

[@unclecoolie]

Those typos get me in every video. I actually try to do quality checks before I upload, and I found several big mistakes before uploading. I know that there will be others. It's difficult to catch them all in a 13.5 hour video.

[@outbackigloo6489]

@@unclecoolie - understood. 🙂 I have followed the first two days of your trip and that is the only typo I’ve found. I have enjoyed the video thus far.

[@unclecoolie]

@@outbackigloo6489 Thank you!