Montgomery, AL to San Antonio, TX: A Complete Real Time Road Trip

[@oOBubbleStreamOo]

I love your channel! I'm from Europe and I've watched quite a few of your videos from beginning to end. I'm really grateful to have the opportunity to see these roadtrips here that I'll never be able to do myself (due to health issues).

[@unclecoolie]

Thank you! I really appreciate your support!

[@FunkyDPL]

8:43:32 Mile and Exit 880 on I-10 in Texas is the highest numbered mile marker and exit # in the entire country! It would be shorter to turn around and head to the end of I-10 East in Jacksonville, Fla than to continue on to mile 0 at the New Mexico State line! And a shout out to anyone who has traveled all 880 miles of I-10 in Texas like I have!

[@unclecoolie]

That's cool to know. I remember when I entered Texas and seeing the exit numbers in the 800s, which is double what I had ever seen before that.

[@jeansmith-v9b]

The best channel about car travel. A real relaxation. Image, and infographics. So that we can remember this world as it once was. Thanks, buddy!

[@unclecoolie]

Wow! My pleasure!

[@dartmayandartan1146]

Nice video uncle, thanks for your hard work

[@unclecoolie]

Thank you! I really appreciate it!

[@williamkinsey8174]

I've rode all your trips on my excercise bike clocked up thousands of virtual miles your a saint!

[@TimBoyd2012]

@@williamkinsey8174 With the high-end bikes (Peloton, et al), there should be a Street View-type program that lets you bike these roads.

[@dartmayandartan1146]

the transition from night to day and travel before sunrise in the morning was nice

[@bkwwilkes]

As a retired truck driver, I have traveled these roads a 1,000 of times thanks for the memories.

[@gilenobraga1925]

Thank you Unclecoolie! I really enjoy all your videos, in the USA and in Canada. Keep on driving!

[@unclecoolie]

Thank you! I will do!

[@bobby68ify]

Hello U.C. Thank you for this wonderful trip. Congrats! 👍 OMG, 5:52 a.m. till 8:52 p.m. exactly 15 hours on tour, that´s really hard work, but I had read other comments below, your scheduled arriving time in S.A. was 7:30 p.m. (heavy traffic) but never mind, I think, that was a great day for you! ...and of course much history, Selma, AL in the year 1965 ....until San Antonio, the famous Fort Alamo,..etc. ok, good luck, best regards, 👋 Robert.

[@unclecoolie]

Thanks! I got into S.A. late because of the heavy traffic in the Houston area. I had expected to get in about an hour before I actually did.

[@gamingninja_77]

The King of Road Trip Videos

[@glmarks61]

Yet another well-done video; can't wait to see the return trip. Keep up the good work.

[@unclecoolie]

Thank you! I'm working on that video now and hope to have it uploaded by the end of this month.

[@banksjim]

It must be really difficult to maintain such silence to capture the actual audio. This definitely helps your videos recreate the experience of being a passenger along for the ride. Have you ever considered trying to use a mic that sits outside the passenger cabin? Maybe wired up in the engine compartment to block cabin noises but still capture the road and engine sounds? Obviously, you'd need to bring down the audio levels in post production to make them sound more like cabin sounds. But it might relieve the pressure on you to keep total silence.

[@unclecoolie]

Believe it or not, I really don't have any issues with staying quiet. I do these drives by myself, which makes it a million times easier to do. Unless I'm driving through an urban area, I listen to music with my earbuds, but not too high of volumes so that I can't hear what's around me, of course.

[@Turkeyslam]

I think this is genuinely important footage for the historical record of it all. You drive right next to where I live, too. Excellent videos!

[@unclecoolie]

Thanks!

[@trevertravis8963]

Thanks again for these videos.

[@unclecoolie]

My pleasure!

[@rileybarker7482]

Another great road trip I just started watching I will be up late tonight watching

[@unclecoolie]

Thanks!

[@jonastorres8785]

Nice videos. When will you make a video in Mexico? I would like to watch the road trip from Mexico City to Cancun ( CDMX-Palenque-Bacalar-Tulum-Playa de Carmen-Cancun).

[@unclecoolie]

Thank you! I want to one day. I'm just not sure when I can.

[@Masonworld1000]

I’m glad you’ve made a video about from Newfoundland and Labrador to Florida. I’m in Ontario, Canada and i appreciate how you added my country. Thank you. You have earned a subscriber

[@unclecoolie]

@@Masonworld1000 My pleasure. Thank you!

[@marcusdzaozara3205]

Enfin une vidéo de 14h que j attendait tant

[@unclecoolie]

This was difficult to edit because it was originally almost 15 hours long before I edited out several stops and pauses.

[@rolux4853]

@@unclecoolie why do you edit them out? I love your videos, but I even more enjoy uncut one takes. Show us exactly the way it is in real life, if people don’t want to see the stops, they can skip. It just feels even more real with the stops etc :)

[@unclecoolie]

@@rolux4853 I always edit out the long pauses or stops because I find them boring when I'm watching the videos. Believe me, if there was anything interesting happening during the stops, I'd leave that part of the video in. Otherwise, it's just motionless video that I edit out. In this video, I edited out a 20-minute section of stopped video in traffic on I-10 near Houston that offered nothing interesting whatsoever.

[@wandabryantsmith2004]

Uncle Coolie, do you realize that you passed two Buc-ee’s and didn’t stop! I wanted to get a pecan log!😂 All kidding aside, I really enjoyed the drive! You passed through the southern part of my state, Louisiana. And have never been to New Orleans; unbelievable. And I see you’re passing north of me through Arkansas on your way back to Herndon. It’s taken me forever to finish this video because the road noise makes me so sleepy. I love it!

[@unclecoolie]

Thank you! I enjoyed this trip. I also plan to do a big road trip in a few weeks. If all goes well, I'll upload video from that video after I get the real time videos from the TX-VA uploaded.

[@johnthebomb06]

My week is sorted :) Thank you for this.

[@unclecoolie]

You’re welcome 😊

[@the937chef]

I love the El Paso 857 mileage sign in Pinehurst. Epic!

[@unclecoolie]

You don't see exit numbers that high anywhere else in the continental US.

[@joseburgos7803]

Excelente muy buen video saludos cordiales 😃😃👌

[@unclecoolie]

Thank you!

[@MichielRuiter]

Hi Uncle Coolie thanks very much for your videos. They are great, love to come over and do some of the trips myself one day. Love this one too. Have a question though: you seem to be following the I10 from Slidell the over lake Ponchartrain and through New Orleans to Baton Rouge. Why not following the I12 from Slidell to Baton Rouge which seems to quicker. Was it just for our viewing pleasure, or is the I10 quicker? What are the considerations for doing a route anyway when researching which route to film?

[@unclecoolie]

Hi. Thanks. I chose to drive through New Orleans just for the view and because I had never been to New Orleans before. I don't always choose the quickest route when I do these road trips. For example, in this trip, I also chose to drive over to Meridian, MS and down I-59/US-11 through Laurel instead of I-65 south of Montgomery to Mobile (which would've been faster) because I wanted to drive through Laurel as there's a popular show on HGTV that my wife and I watch that takes place there. Also, when I drove from New York to Santa Monica in September, I detoured in western Kansas northward so that I could drive through Colorado Springs.

[@MichielRuiter]

@@unclecoolie thank you for your answers! And I loved the drive along the I59 and I10 via New Orleans, especially the bridge over Lake Ponchartrain. Any hints on a next trip?

[@unclecoolie]

@@MichielRuiter Thanks. I'm not sure yet. I would like to drive up to Vermont, as that's the only state in the lower 48 that I haven't been to before, and I can also drive through the area where I grew up (Orange County, NY). I've also been wanting to drive to Alaska through British Columbia in Canada. I also want to visit Hawaii. Hawaii, Alaska, and Vermont are the only states that I've never been to.

[@jip3443]

This has an amazing ASMR affect.

[@martinmachiels]

Hi, there is a mistake. Around 6:17:08 East Baton RouGE Parish is entered, but in the title which appears in the screen on bottom centre, it is mentioned as East Baton RouGH Parish.

[@unclecoolie]

Yes--that's a mistake! Thanks.

[@martinmachiels]

@@unclecoolie You're welcome!

[@aaviadd]

amazing. i see all and wait to the next

[@unclecoolie]

Thank you! I just got back from a beach vacation for the past week, so I will resume working on my next video which is the time lapse version of my trip back to Virginia from San Antonio. I plan to have it uploaded by the end of this month.

[@devsh0888]

Wonderful as always....would love to see one you taking route from NC to Tennessee with views of Smoky Mountains on the backdrop.

[@unclecoolie]

Thank you! Yes, I would love to go back to that part of TN again. I have never been to the Smokey Mountains. I already have a couple of trips planned in the next couple of months: a family beach vacation, and a business trip to Las Vegas. I plan to do some mountain driving when I go to Vegas. Doing a trip to the Smokeys is high on my list, and I may do that early next year or this winter.

[@devsh0888]

@@unclecoolie cool.... thanks

[@daniel4655]

Was the initial plan to go into the New Orleans downtown but changed when you saw the stopped traffic? 5:21:48 I guess it would have made what was already a long day an extremely long one

[@unclecoolie]

Actually, no. I realized that I was under a time crunch on this day of driving, so I only intended to stay on I-10 the entirety through New Orleans.

[@jamesburrelljr.8561]

A friend of mine has to drive from NH to Florida on her own during the Christmas holiday. I wish you could be her co-pilot. She is young and it will be her first cross-country drive.

[@unclecoolie]

Thanks for the vote of confidence. As someone with a young daughter myself (who's not yet old enough to drive), I can say that I would be a little nervous about having such a young woman drive a long distance by herself. You should consider riding with her, if she doesn't have someone else trustworthy to ride with her.

[@jamesburrelljr.8561]

@@unclecoolie Thats the plan if the stars line up right I will do it unfortunately its hard to get time off on that part of the year fingers crossed

[@unclecoolie]

@@jamesburrelljr.8561 I understand that.

[@TimBoyd2012]

I-59 south of Hattiesburg: Holy county line straddling, Batman!

[@ADAMISNISE]

I love watching road trips and your my favorite channel to watch!

[@unclecoolie]

Thank you! I really appreciate it.

[@floridaandpuertoricomappin9893]

Awesome this is amazing can't wait for your next roadtrip

[@unclecoolie]

Thank you! It will be the time lapse version of my drive back to Virginia from San Antonio. I took a more northerly route for that trip, and I drove through Dallas, OK, AR, TN, KY, WV, and of course VA. I will have that uploaded in August, followed by the two days of real time afterwards.

[@floridaandpuertoricomappin9893]

@@unclecoolie I am really looking foward to the next video😁😁😁😁😁

[@colar8826]

A shorter route would have been I12 from Slidell Louisiana to Baton Rouge Louisiana then I10 to San Antonio bypassing I10 through New Orleans Louisiana. A nice video.

[@unclecoolie]

Thank you. I wanted to drive through Laurel, MS and New Orleans, because I had never been to New Orleans before.

[@colar8826]

Ok. Did see the Sanderson Farms chicken plant next to the interstate in Laurel, MS?

[@unclecoolie]

@@colar8826 No, I missed that. I was too busy looking for the old Chevy truck that is featured in the HGTV show, Home Town.

[@canadianv1nce175]

I love how you start right before sunrise and stop at a hotel right before night.

[@unclecoolie]

This day went longer than expected due to heavy traffic in eastern Texas. I had hoped to arrive in San Antonio by 7:30.

[@RoadsOfAsiaBen]

Great drive! Would you play the Mega Millions? The jackpot is at $790 million.

[@unclecoolie]

Wow! 👀

[@SPCFranklinCounty373]

Awesome! Do you think you can drive to Cleveland soon? Its one of my favorite cities.

[@unclecoolie]

I passed through part of Cleveland in my Seattle to Washington, DC road trip back in January.

[@MasonWright1234]

I been to San Antonio and I absolutely love it

[@unclecoolie]

I did too.

[@carlosalbertoramosrosales]

I been in San Antonio many times and my favorite places are the tower of the America and the Alamo

[@unclecoolie]

@@carlosalbertoramosrosales I didn't get the chance to see the Alamo during this trip, even though I stayed only blocks away from it, but I'm hoping to go back to San Antonio sometime in the next year.

[@chriswilliams2583]

Thanks for the real time road trip videos, You did a amazing job, and what kind of car did you drove? and also what kind of trim for this car?

[@unclecoolie]

Thank you! I drove a 2021 Nissan Altima that I rented from Dulles Airport. I don't remember much else regarding details.

[@daniel4655]

9:16:30 round about now you must have been thinking 'why didn't I fly'😂 What caused the traffic snarl? Accident?

[@unclecoolie]

Lol, not really. I knew traffic would get worse as I got closer to Houston.

[@unclecoolie]

I don't remember what caused that exactly. I didn't see anything.

[@jtdavis62]

Your elevation app goes out of whack somewhere before Pearl River. Also, I appreciate your taking the long way through New Orleans rather than the I-12 shortcut before Slidell. Longer drive, but better video.

[@unclecoolie]

Thanks! Yeah, occasionally the GPS is way off with the elevations, especially when it's close to sea-level. I made sure to drive through New Orleans because I had never been there before.

[@jtdavis62]

@@unclecoolie New Orleans is worth a deep exploration for sure. So much good food and music. Driving through, though, you can see how the city is really an island.

[@unclecoolie]

@@jtdavis62 I've always wanted to do Mardi Gras. Maybe next February I'll finally do it.

[@jackthirati866]

Nice video that helps me explore the US roads while work from home here in Thailand! keep up the good work! may i ask what kind of software or hardware that u use to display the map on the top left corner and also other indicators like the elevator and stuff? looks kinda cool

[@unclecoolie]

Thanks! 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. I may make a how-to video of how I make these videos.

[@williamkinsey8174]

@@unclecoolie what I love about your work is we both love the same things like interesting details and landmarks But mostly I love your total discipline. Nothing more annoying than travelling to a place you've never been to and someone spoils it by talking through it.

[@unclecoolie]

@@williamkinsey8174 Thanks a lot!

[@R08ERT]

Love the long car rides on here right across America Something to watch on a Sunday when the nothing to do or watch on tv 👍🚗🇺🇸

[@unclecoolie]

Thank you! At almost 14 hours, this is my longest video to date.

[@AaronDanielLIsles]

Nice video. What car did you drove here? And do you have a Ford, or a Chevy? Anyways I don't skip the ads.

[@unclecoolie]

Thank you! I drove a 2021 Nissan Altima for this drive, which I rented from Dulles Airport.

[@AaronDanielLIsles]

@@unclecoolie I wish you ever had a Ford F150.

[@unclecoolie]

@@AaronDanielLIsles I once rented an F-150 when I did my West Virginia drive in July 2019. It was very fitting to drive a pickup truck in WV. I rented a Dodge Ram when I did my first WV road trip in June 2017.

[@AaronDanielLIsles]

@@unclecoolie So you mostly rent vehicles in your videos?

[@unclecoolie]

@@AaronDanielLIsles Yes. For one thing, many of my road trips begin and end away from home.

[@UntitledKirk]

Question for you: what do you like listening to (if anything) on these long drives? Music? Audiobooks? Podcasts? Just curious :)

[@unclecoolie]

I remember listening to a lot of AC/DC on this trip, such as Highway to Hell and Back in Black, among other albums and artists.

[@floridaandpuertoricomappin9893]

When is the San Antonio TX-Dulles VA roadtrip coming

[@unclecoolie]

In the next several days. I got delayed by personal stuff.

[@floridaandpuertoricomappin9893]

@@unclecoolie ok srry I got too excited

[@unclecoolie]

@@floridaandpuertoricomappin9893 I'm uploading it now, which means that it could still take a few days to finish uploading and processing. I've made some slight changes to this upcoming video.

[@cutekittyiscuteronnie]

how many road trips have you taken lol. i would get carsick in like 30 minutes

[@unclecoolie]

In the last 5 years, well more than a dozen.

[@cutekittyiscuteronnie]

@@unclecoolie wow

[@AWCTB]

I know I’m late to this one and you might not recognize me, but I’m the guy who originally suggest Anchorage to Miami all across North America, some day.

[@unclecoolie]

Oh, hi! I remember that comment.

[@ThatCarGuy2]

Cool video! Are you driving an Altima?

[@unclecoolie]

Thank you! yes, I'm driving a 2021 Altima in this video that I rented from Dulles Airport.

[@ThatCarGuy2]

Nice! We had a 2021 Altima rental last year and it was a good car. What trim was yours?

[@unclecoolie]

@@ThatCarGuy2 It was a good car. I don't remember the trim. I think it was all black inside, but I can't remember if the seats were leather or cloth. Most of the time, it's cloth with rental cars.

[@ThatCarGuy2]

@@unclecoolie Yeah, it's usually cloth unless we get lucky and get a nice one.

[@unclecoolie]

@@ThatCarGuy2 Yep.

[@switchpiece]

Can you drive to Boston sometime?

[@unclecoolie]

Possibly. I want to visit the only state in the lower 48 that I've never visited: Vermont, so it might include a trip to Boston.

[@switchpiece]

@@unclecoolie Vermont is beautiful, you should drive from Montreal to Boston then onto DC or something like that

[@unclecoolie]

@@switchpiece I might do just that.

[@switchpiece]

@@unclecoolie You could also do US-7 south from Burlington through the Berkshire mountains in massachusetts to New York City

[@JulioDagulio]

You gone to Iowa before?

[@unclecoolie]

Yes, in my Nebraska to California trip (August, 2017). So far only 3 states have I not been to on any of my road trips over the last 5 years; and they are AK, HI, and VT.

[@vasy_5177]

Love it

[@unclecoolie]

Thank you!

[@TimBoyd2012]

4:45:53 Move over, Badwater, we have a new low point!

[@unclecoolie]

Yeah, the GPS elevations get really screwy at times.

[@stimpyueediot]

UCP slapping out another 13 hour 600gb video. yeah yeahhh

[@unclecoolie]

I actually reduced the size to below 250 GB due to size limitations of YT.

[@stimpyueediot]

@@unclecoolie lol thats still HUGE. love it.

[@actionkey8042]

AWESOME

[@unclecoolie]

Thanks 🤗

[@actionkey8042]

@@unclecoolie ))

[@daniel4655]

No real time video of the return trip mate?

[@unclecoolie]

Yes, there will be. I'm working on that as well as my NY-CA real time videos.

[@daniel4655]

Excellent. Thank you@@unclecoolie

[@ЮрийМихеев-у7у]

Unclecoolie, скажите, пожалуйста, есть ли в Америке те, кто едет со скоростью исключительно не выше лимита? Например, максимум 70 в зоне 70, максимум 65 в зоне 65... На всех дорогах при любых дорожных условиях? Или все превышают скорость (78 - 80 в зоне 70, 73 - 75 в зоне 65 и тому подобное)?

[@unclecoolie]

People speed frequently. Even I'm guilty of it.

[@carlosalbertoramosrosales]

Welcome to Texas you know that I live in Houston Texas

[@unclecoolie]

Thank you! The traffic reminded me of where I live, which is in Fairfax County, Virginia.

[@AviSpace]

Hi, I have a question - How did you upload a video that long? Isn't maximum lenght for KZbin video 12 hours?

[@unclecoolie]

There is no maximum length, only maximum size: 256 GB.

[@AviSpace]

@@unclecoolie Oh, thank you so much for answear. That's great news for me.

[@AmongUs-mb4qx]

@@AviSpace I think the real limit is 24 hours.

[@bongieger7871]

how come you drive so long jounreys all over the US? is this a hobby of yours or do you work with... idk... car driving?

[@unclecoolie]

I enjoy doing long road trips. This was a trip I did for work, and I just chose to drive instead of fly.

[@AmongUs-mb4qx]

I've one question, out of all the cars you've driven long distances, which one you found the most comfortable suspension wise? The kind that can take expansion joints and potholes smoothly.

[@unclecoolie]

Hmm. I'd say the pickup trucks that I've driven before (Dodge Ram in my first WV trip in June 2017; Ford F-150 in my 2nd WV trip in July 2019; and the Honda Ridgeline that I just drove in my NY-CA trip in September) are the smoothest vehicles that I've driven.

[@haraldsachwitz7515]

Hi, thank´s. Gruß aus Deutschland

[@unclecoolie]

Thank you! Greetings from Fairfax County, Virginia.

[@Saa42808]

Is it possible to make more real estate and try to get rid of lower part as much as possible.

[@unclecoolie]

Unfortunately, the camera doesn't have an optical zoom, and the only way to lesson the fish eye view some is to knock down the resolution to 1080p, which I don't want to do.

[@mustaphabajjari4905]

Bonjour Unclecoolie, j'adore vos vidéos et je vous suits du maroc, j'aimerai connaitre la marque de votre véhicule et vous ne pensez pas un jour faire la route 66 de Chicago à los angeles....???

[@unclecoolie]

Thank you! I drove a Nissan Altima, which I rented from Dulles Airport. I would love to do a US-66 trip one day, similar to National Lampoon's Vacation.

[@mustaphabajjari4905]

@@unclecoolie Thanks for the reply unclecoolie...

[@daniel4655]

Dog on the median strip🤔2:05:18

[@unclecoolie]

I don't remember seeing that during the drive.

[@TimBoyd2012]

Could have been a coyote. In either case, it looked like it was taking a dump.

[@lilmansnake2006]

Remember me? You know the largest city in Alabama?

[@unclecoolie]

I remember you. I had contemplated driving through Birmingham, but Montgomery made more sense given that I wanted to drive through Laurel, MS and down into New Orleans.

[@lilmansnake2006]

@@unclecoolie Actually, Huntsville is the largest city in Alabama now. It surpassed Birmingham a while back

[@unclecoolie]

@@lilmansnake2006 I didn't know that. Thanks. I've been to Huntsville before. I spent a week there for work back in 2015.

[@lilmansnake2006]

@@unclecoolie No problem. Enjoy your travels rich guy!

[@unclecoolie]

@@lilmansnake2006 Thanks. I wish.

[@nisavargas444]

San Antonio TX to los Ángeles CA

[@unclecoolie]

Not likely anytime soon.

[@Tarantula7Tom]

Yippee 😁

[@AmongUs-mb4qx]

You're taping history! I came back from a trip 2 days ago and stumbled upon this channel (Google spying me?), the air quality at my destination was so much better than at home so I'm missing it. I've read your comments and I love how you manually write down temps, overlay the GPS data, all this hard work is commendable apart from driving of course which takes sheer focus and stamina.

[@unclecoolie]

Thank you! It's a lot of effort, but it's worth it to know that it's appreciated.

[@TV3TOT]

My wish to be a driver.

[@Haseebkhan-11]

Are you earning from these type of videos?

[@unclecoolie]

Yes, but not quite enough to cover the costs. I do these because I enjoy it.

[@aldocuneo1140]

To travel by car in States is boring as a baseball match.

[@paull2937]

First

[@john1336]

San Antonio is boring

[@unclecoolie]

I had fun there. I'll have some daytime video for the San Antonio to Virginia video that I will publish next month.

[@MasonWright1234]

I love San Antonio