Wildwood, MO to Aurora, CO - A Complete Real Time Road Trip

[@reteipdevries]

This means a lot for someone who has never been to the USA. Bucket List...........

[@unclecoolie]

Thanks.

[@Adam.deVries]

G'day from ADELAIDE Australia de Vries here too

[@reteipdevries]

@@Adam.deVries And a very nice evening from A'dam to you Adam. (A'dam is short for Amsterdam here :-)

[@kar460]

Where would you go in the U.S?

[@reteipdevries]

@@kar460 Washington Baltimore New York Boston or vv. That would be a dream come true!

[@ANTAlex-pe9li]

I always liked the Great Plains. It has a lot of cool little farming towns and it is really satisfying to see such large empty land it makes you appreciate every house or thing you pass

[@MyVadson]

I can't imagine how this can be overcome on horses and without roads ?!

[@spete4452]

Well yeah thats nice, but for me seeing all this fast open land is the essence of freedom. Nothing blocks your view. You can see up to the horizon. You could go in any direction. Nothing stops you, nothing blocks you way. Total freedom.

[@brianyoungberg9904]

We live in Wildwood. You go by the high school at 2:25 and by our subdivision around 5:25. I drive the roads at the start daily.

[@skulltrailRFL]

This channel is awesome. These videos reminds me when I was 7 years old, when my family lived in the US (i'm Portuguese), we used to do long cross country road trips, in a LS430 (miss that car), from NJ where we lived, to CA,FL,TX,etc,..., and this brings so many memories of certain places i've been. I miss those days. Thank you for the hard work in making these videos with so much details. I hope one day, I will do the cannonball route from NY to LA, which is a fabulous trip according to my dad, who did that route so many times. Subscribed. Cheers.

[@unclecoolie]

Thank you very much! I appreciate it. I should be able to upload day #3 of this drive tomorrow, and then day # next week. Then, I can finally start editing my next road trip. I have several more road trips ahead, so there will be no shortage of videos. I was a kid when my father drove us from NY to San Bernardino. We had several problems on that trip, such as the axle of our camping trailer breaking in the middle of Montana, and such. In retrospect, I have great memories from that trip, lol.

[@wythore]

Fellow Portuguese here ! :)

[@unclecoolie]

@@wythore A 2018 Nissan Pathfinder, which was a rental that I picked up at Dulles Airport and dropped off at SeaTac Airport.

[@dimitriosfromgreece4227]

Yes yes ❤❤❤

[@rafael.vitoria]

Rafael, também sou português e também sou Rafael xD, um dos meus maiores sonhos era mesmo fazer uma roadtrip assim nos EUA, dizem que uma experiência única para quem é estrangeiro aos EUA, acredito vivamente nisso

[@Blues666]

This Kansas-ride is something else. I'm more the mountain guy, but: there i see an open country with an open sky, ready for an open mind. I like it!

[@unclecoolie]

I actually enjoyed it, mainly because I watched the elevations increase while driving across, and I looked forward to first spotting the Rockies.

[@solliz666]

Day 2 is done. 1320 km, or 815 miles. It's a pleasure to ride with you. You are a very good driver. Thank you so much. And many greetings from East Germany

[@unclecoolie]

Thank you! I'm glad that you're enjoying it. Greetings from the Washington, DC area.

[@melvillebartleby6285]

Yeah! Really awesome, Unclecoolie, give us more real time road trip! Great job!!!!

[@unclecoolie]

I have many more road trips forthcoming, along with both the real-time and time-lapse versions. I've also received numerous requests for hyper-lapse versions, so I will eventually upload those as well.

[@melvillebartleby6285]

So I follow! Once again, great job😊

[@unclecoolie]

Christophe Chiozzini Thanks.

[@southernbiscuits1275]

The plains are not much fun. But, I have learned so much geography by watching your videos. I never knew the plains attained such a high elevation as they do. Also, I did not know Denver was in the plains. I always thought it was in the mountains. So grateful for your videoing your trip and sharing it with us!

[@unclecoolie]

Thank you very much. I really appreciate your feedback.

[@whattheheckamidoinghere4305]

That why we called the great plains.

[@austinknox8088]

Denver is in the great plains near the mountains. Eastern Colorado is pretty much western Kansas. The Colorado mountains are western

[@guillermobarrio55]

Boy, it is so hypnotizing the open space and the humming sound... thnx for this.

[@unclecoolie]

Thank you!

[@vikingsbuckeyesfan]

Even though Colorado is well known for it’s mountains, there is a huge portion of Colorado that is just flat plains like Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas.

[@unclecoolie]

Very true. I drove for more than 3 hours before reaching the Denver area.

[@WackyFolf]

Yes. The mountains begin shortly after you leave Denver and continue west.

[@ANTAlex-pe9li]

Oh yeah as a Colorado resident I can confirm the Great Plains are a large part of the state

[@noahtassi131]

One of my ultimate goals in life is to drive from Vegas (where I’m from) all the way to Miami, then up to Portland, Maine and then all the way across to Seattle back down to Vegas. Watching these videos makes me want to do it even more because it just looks like fun.

[@darwinism18]

The painted clouds of Kansas sky - a visual wonder

[@KingOscar-hc3yp]

Missouri 0:11 - 3:19:41 Kansas 3:19:41 - 8:55:22 Coloando 8:55:22 - 11:05:20

[@emeritus2148]

I hope you liked driving through my home city (KC). love the videos!

[@unclecoolie]

Thanks. I did. I'd been there before a few years ago. I was pressed for time to get to Denver, but I wish that I'd stopped to get some good barbecue.

[@loganhann9140]

same here! go royals

[@adriancalderon1633]

go royals home town also

[@Stacky18]

Great channel, hoping to be in the USA next year and doing some sort of road trip. This channel is a huge help in my planning. Thanks

[@unclecoolie]

Thank you! I have many more videos forthcoming. I don't know what part of the US you want to see, but I can recommend some areas. The parts I enjoyed most are driving through the canyons of Utah (Bryce Canyon and Zion National Parks), the Grand Canyon in Arizona, the Rockies in both Colorado and Wyoming, and of course driving through California, especially along the coast (my video of that will be coming up in the next few weeks).

[@siemonblidener652]

Nice how the Rockies pop up in the very end

[@bobby68ify]

at first,... congratulation again for your Day 1, May 3rd. beautiful, wonderful, great job! after a 14 hours driving journey, I think, that must be very tiring. my respect. best greetings, Robert.

[@unclecoolie]

Thank you very much!

[@nikgeo8690]

Wow I just realised why the Great Plains are called Great....

[@Toni62R]

Yes, and also High Plains, up to 5000 feet and more...

[@milewayroads]

3:19:40 Kansas 8:55:22 Colorado

[@VladisRed]

You must win this race. Do it!

[@MikesVoyagesAndDrives]

I drove the route from St. Louis to Denver in 1994, but took two or three days (I can't remember exactly) to do it. It is interesting. You think to drive through an endless flat, always straight ahead. But what you can see in the video thanks to the altimeter is that you are driving uphill all the time, and you overcome more than 4000 feet of altitude. Thanks for the memories that the video gave me. I picked out the photos from that time again.

[@unclecoolie]

Thanks. The ever increasing elevation while the topography seems to get flatter is the most interesting thing about the Great Plains. I hadn't noticed the elevation changes when I did my drive across Nebraska the previous summer, but I actually noticed the subtle changes in this drive.

[@ЮрийМихеев-у7у]

@@unclecoolie Я только не очень понимаю этого человека, который ездил из Сент-Луиса в Денвер в 1994, почему он ехал два или три дня, если из Сент-Луиса в Денвер можно добраться за 11 - 12 часов на автомобиле?

[@unclecoolie]

@@ЮрийМихеев-у7у He was probably sight-seeing. I did indeed do this drive from St Louis to Denver in one day, but I hardly stopped for anything other than for fuel, food and rest room breaks.

[@lupine25]

Thanks for doing this! Seriously, it takes a lot of effort to capture an entire trip so this is just awesome! ... on a more personal note, I took almost this exact route during the last cross country trip I went on (started in Seattle to DC and North Carolina then back again...). But reason I mention is, on the way back we pretty much followed this exact routing from WV through Colorado. So, kinda fun "reliving" that trip through this video! :)

[@unclecoolie]

Thanks. It was a lot of work, but having so many people appreciate it makes it worthwhile. I chose I-64/I-70 through until Colorado to get to Seattle because I drove on both I-80 and I-90 extensively last year, and the other options would have been to either drive farther to the south (and therefore be way out of the way to go to Seattle) or to drive I-94 up north. The problem with I-94 is that once you get west of Minneapolis, there's not much of anything until you get to Washington state, and the Great Plains are twice as wide as they are in Kansas/Colorado.

[@lupine25]

Yeah we pretty much had the same motivation -- in that we'd taken I-90 during the eastbound part of our trip so we wanted to take a different way home. Kinda funny though because we were going from NC to WA by way of a week-long stayover in Salt Lake City so I guess we could have gone several different ways but... ... ... someone (waving hand in the air) insisted on going through St. Louis because there was a video game/coin op/pinball museum he wanted to check out...... :) Haha! But yeah, I'm hoping to one day do a southern road trip.... I have a lot of people in Texas I want to look up anyway....

[@johnbrewer62]

I’m from Denver and I used to take road trips as a kid to see my moms family in Kansas. Great to see it without having to spend the gas money myself

[@unclecoolie]

Awesome. I really enjoyed this part of the trip.

[@newjawn9004]

Twice I driven nonstop Lexington, KY to Golden, Co -- about 17.5 hours. Exhausting, but I have to say that eastern CO (in the Limon area), with all of its vast emptiness, is to me one of the most beautiful places in the US. Colorado just has so much scenic beauty -- snow capped mts to arid plains. Just wow.

[@unclecoolie]

I actually enjoyed driving across the Plains very much. It was nice how the topography got flatter the higher the elevations went, and I looked forward to seeing the Front Range of the Rockies, which I saw for the first time near Limon.

[@tylerbeatty8657]

Dang I miss these vibes waking up at 5 am and going on 8 hour drives and being excited the whole way there

[@unclecoolie]

Same here. I long to be able to do these types of trips again.

[@terryleddra1973]

Love these trips. Thank you

[@unclecoolie]

Thank you. I appreciate it.

[@MrGOOMBAGUY]

We literally drove the other way down I-70 less than two weeks after this went up, heading home from Las Vegas. Greetings from Southern IL!

[@unclecoolie]

Cool.

[@cherylgreene7958]

Enjoying your road trip. WOW! I don't drive that far; but I wouldn't mind riding with someone who wants to drive across the US.

[@unclecoolie]

Thanks. I would like to have my family accompany me on a long road trip at some point, but right now it's difficult with young children, and my wife doesn't appreciate road trips like I do.

[@unclecoolie]

@@notsoaverageslovenian It's not easy. I can only justify a few days per year as I have to leave my wife and children home. I do that because it would make doing a road trip video impossible.

[@andrewhobbs24]

This is weird bc i used to live in Wildwood and I’d drive to Denver regularly for family. I know this whole route

[@unclecoolie]

Cool! 😎

[@corytaylor6739]

My family would take this exact same route to visit family in Denver when I was a kid. Kansas was soooo boring that you didn’t feel like you were actually climbing in elevation.

[@trucker-vx1sv]

mommy said 1 video before bed time (also great vid earned a new sub)

[@unclecoolie]

Thanks!

[@CAROLDDISCOVER-2025]

Nice road trip footage

[@unclecoolie]

Thanks!

[@DavidMullins-qu8mk]

I'm just very surprised that in Central Missouri it was cloudy, but in Western Missouri all the way from Colorado, it was very sunny.

[@unclecoolie]

I lucked out with the weather on this trip.

[@christianengest7283]

Thanks alot for the second part i really enjoyed the first part regards from aalesund norway:)Small fishingtown on the west coast of norway.

[@unclecoolie]

Greetings from the Washington, DC area. Thanks very much! I worried about this part of the trip as this is mostly the (very flat) Great Plains. Day 3 will is a lot more interesting, and I will be uploading it in the next few days. Truthfully, I actually enjoyed this day of driving as much as the first day, because of the gradual increasing elevation, and the fact that I would be able to see the Rocky Mountains from far out (actually near Limon, Colorado). I would love to do a road trip through Norway someday. The 10-hour train ride videos on KZbin from Trondheim to Bodo are some of my absolute favorite videos!

[@christianengest7283]

I watched that video aswell like 4 times now the trondheim bodø one:)Try the drive from oslo to kirkenes tht is a looong drive :)

[@unclecoolie]

I'll check that out, thanks!

[@pvdri82]

I'm really enjoying these videos, they are excellent. I'm curious, are these trips for pleasure or business? I commend you for doing all that driving without having the radio on! lol

[@unclecoolie]

Thank you. It's actually for both, but mostly for pleasure. 😊 I was listening to music using my earphones to avoid having the camera pick up any copyrighted audio that I would have to edit out later on.

[@AnimatingStudios2002]

@@unclecoolie I don't think that's legal. Wearing ear/headphones while driving.

[@NateCraven318]

3:48:23 I live there. Lovely Lawrence Kansas!

[@ChatGPT1111]

TonyTheCat1 I remember when that ‘83 doomsday movie, The Day After came out, set in Lawrence KS. I was in the service living in the UK at the time and remember that BBC TV there said the city was fictitious. They are still giving fake news like that today.

[@weneedfreedomtoo]

It's really a hard work to add so many details in a so long trip video. Thanks for your sharing. This shows to us how beautiful and great your country is.

[@unclecoolie]

Thank you for watching. I have many more videos to come.

[@fuun17]

thanks. endless horizon for 11-hour driving I can only dream of here in South Korea for my driving videos, but you've got plenty there.

[@unclecoolie]

This video showcases the North American Great Plains pretty well.

[@bloqk16]

This video is marvelous, as seeing the endless flatness of eastern Colorado has given me a better appreciation of the Interstate 5 drive, in California, between Stockton to just south of Bakersfield. For decades I considered that to be a most monotonous drive. But after seeing the I-70 West drive in Colorado, the I-5 drive is downright scenic in comparison.

[@unclecoolie]

Thanks! I've found that I-80 in Nebraska between the I-76 junction and York is pretty monotonous, as is I-95 in Florida.

[@k333rl]

got gas in my home town. though you also went to the 2nd most expensive station in town. their prices are always about 30 cents higher.

[@unclecoolie]

No doubt, because the closest gas stations to interstates are usually the most expensive.

[@k333rl]

@@unclecoolie I'm also amazed that you were able to get through kansas with no music or anything and not fall asleep. We stopped in salina once and met a guy headed west and he asked 'does this state ever end?' We had to give him the bad news that he had at least another 3 or 4 hours of nothingness in Kansas and then another couple hours into Colorado before he hit the mountains.

[@unclecoolie]

@@k333rl I actually enjoyed it. The endless openness, especially with the elevations ever increasing, was soothing. I listeded to music through my earphones (on low volume) to avoid copyright issues with the audio. I had to remove the music I had for my CA-NY video due to copyright violations.

[@k333rl]

@@unclecoolie understand. I grew up in west Kansas and then moved to the Eastern part of the state. I miss the wide open views and the wind. Out here we have too many trees and almost no wind. I get homesick on windy days now. But thanks for putting this video up, we get to make the 6 hr drive back to the KS CO border here in a couple days so this helped me to get ready to go.

[@bloxgaming7771]

Great video!

[@unclecoolie]

Thanks!

[@carloswilson671]

Day 2 almost straight Great Planes. I was amazed at all the places in Kansas with rather than being flat like a pancake roll slightly. This probably helps them drain when it storms. I learned some geography and a little geology. I was amazed at how vast Kansas is.

[@unclecoolie]

The one interesting thing about the Plains is that the elevations steadily increase as you go west toward Denver, but the topography seems to get flatter.

[@carloswilson671]

@@unclecoolie I did notice that. It does seem strange. It seems the topography would roll move coming to higher evevations. Even weirder is how much the altitude increases on the flat topography.

[@jozefefe11]

another beautiful video just so I'm trying

[@unclecoolie]

Thank you! I'm about to upload day #3 right now.

[@paulschnitzel3022]

As I watch this captivating video I can't help thinking of the song Abilene sung by George Hamilton IV: Abilene, Abilene prettiest town I've ever seen. Women there don't treat you mean, in Abilene, my Abilene. Then again, I think the song is about Abilene, Texas.

[@george8873]

Must suck for those people needing to get to work in St. Loius @ 22:50. Just sitting there, not moving when ya need to get to work must be frustrating.

[@melvillebartleby6285]

Thanks a lot!!!

[@unclecoolie]

My pleasure!

[@bobby68ify]

Hi coolie, at 5:59:54 stop Ellsworth KS, Rest area I-70 westbound The flags on half mast. OMG, what was the reason? best greetings, Robert. ***btw*** west I-70 exit 199, Dorrance, KS - your closest position to "The geographic center of the United States" (near Lebanon, KS) *** I love your trip! wonderful, sunshine, best weather.

[@unclecoolie]

I'm not sure. I didn't notice that until now. Lebanon, Kansas, that looks about right, if you exclude Alaska and Hawaii. Thanks again!

[@chrismuller9289]

Thx for picking us up, it's a great tour through a beautiful landscape ;) I've just a little question. At 4:01:18 we can read "left lane closed mm 179 - 176". In several other Videos we can hear Mr. Navi telling us to take exit number --- on Highway.... and at the end we can hear "mm". What does this mean, this "mm"? Okay, here I imagine these are exit-numbers. But what does it mean at a navi?? Sorry for a stupid question... I'm a German ;) Edit: No, as I saw, mm 179 - 176 are not exit-numbers... maybe the mileage? Of the Interstate? I really have no idea ;)

[@unclecoolie]

Thanks. That "MM" stood for mile marker. The mile markers start from 0 at the state borders, with 0 being the western border for east-west routes, and 0 being the southern border for north-south routes. Most states also peg the exit numbers based on these mile markers, so if you see an "exit #175", that means that there is about 175 miles left in that state, assuming that you're traveling westbound.

[@chrismuller9289]

Ah, I see, thank you. So if I drive westward then the kilometers decrease to the next state border. And it may mean the exit? So these are not numbered throughout the route? Sometimes, but not everytime, depending from state to state? I gladly admit: Every time I think I understand the system I understand it even less :) Here in Germany, the highways in north-south direction are marked like A 1, A 3, A5..., in east-west direction like A 2, A 4, A 6... and the numbering of the exits is continuous throughout the route. But Germany is also, in comparison, only a small area. Our longest highway runs from the Danish border in the north to the Austrian in the south and is sensational 962.2 km long (that's 597.8 miles). And that's even the second longest highway in Europe... ;)

[@kaijatuuna9566]

Is this 4:18:15 the same as The Great Plains? Is it mentioned at any trip, which goes across The Plains?

[@unclecoolie]

That's the Great Plains. I mentioned it in my DC-WA video, but not my CA-NY video.

[@AnimatingStudios2002]

While you were driving through Central Kansas, the audio was not in sync. For example, i hear the bridge crossing, but I don't see it.

[@unclecoolie]

Interesting that you noticed that. I had to remove the audio for a few minutes' worth of video in central KS because I was having a phone conversation with my wife that I didn't exactly want the world to hear.

[@kaijatuuna9566]

There seem to be letters as road names, eg. 2:51:33 and 2:56:40. What for? How do you choose the names to the map in the upper left corner?

[@unclecoolie]

Those are just secondary or supplemental routes that Missouri implemented. It is odd, and I remember thinking that when I drove through there. I don't remember seeing anything like that anywhere else, but I remember seeing designated farm roads in Texas when i drove through there last year. The camera's software (Virb) generates the route line, and I create the skeletal map overlay separately for it.

[@dogaming0426]

Thanks but I'm confused with the DC TO WA now it says MO to CO still I liked

[@unclecoolie]

Thanks. I just wanted to convey in the title that this is part of the whole DC - WA trip. I might just change the title to state what it is and leave the DC-WA reference in the description.

[@stephenbryant1107]

It's amazing to think some of that land in the great plains is higher the Appalachian mtns. It's just so dang flat. What did you use to track elevation?

[@unclecoolie]

Yeah, the Plains are unique, especially since the elevations gradually increase as you drive west. The elevations shown are courtesy of the GPS data that the camera records, which is the Garmin Virb Ultra 30.

[@gillesbronchain442]

Please, can you tell me the car you drived? Thanks for your videos, I visit your country from France 😊🙏

[@unclecoolie]

Thank you! I drove a 2018 Nissan Pathfinder that I rented from Dulles Airport and dropped off at Sea-Tac Airport at the end (I took a flight back to DC that afternoon at the end).

[@gillesbronchain442]

Lucky guy. Thanks for your answer.

[@AnimatingStudios2002]

@@unclecoolie Why couldn't you use your own car?

[@wintrooz7861]

@@AnimatingStudios2002 because you need to rent a car when you get off a plane

[@dimitriosfromgreece4227]

BRAVO AMAZING VIDEO ❤❤❤

[@unclecoolie]

Thank you!

[@dimitriosfromgreece4227]

@@unclecoolie Thanks ❤❤❤

[@konsojo5229]

hi, completed day one, now beginning day two

[@unclecoolie]

👍

[@tentenchu8140]

Damn, the western half of Kansas is a complete snoozefest.

[@unclecoolie]

The interesting part of that drive was the fact that the elevation kept increasing.

[@johnwesleyhuss2327]

I live in northeast kansas, and it looks like the lowlands. Even though it elevates.

[@sethgrey4389]

I literally drive this exact route every 6 months to hang out with my family in Aurora

[@unclecoolie]

😊

[@dr.chaluvarajub.v.5434]

Hi, I saw agriculture in east Missouri fist time in USA.

[@unclecoolie]

Most of the Midwest is agriculture, especially corn production.

[@TM-bd7nf]

Please tell what equipment you used for this? What kind of dash cam and what apps allow you to put the GOS locations in the corners. This is awesome.

[@unclecoolie]

I used the Garmin Virb Ultra 30 with a 256 GB micro SD card that can hold a whole day's worth of video at a time. The camera records GPS in separate files, and the Virb software that the camera uses extracts the GPS and puts the information on the video in the manner that I choose. I do all of the rest of the editing using Final Cut Pro.

[@TM-bd7nf]

@@unclecoolie thank you for all the work you do putting these videos together.

[@imwwwer]

Wonderful

[@unclecoolie]

Thank you!

[@squeaksvids5886]

And I thought Norfolk was flat! Wouldn’t want to be driving through Kansas in a snow storm.

[@unclecoolie]

And especially tornadoes.

[@kar460]

I live in ND.. During the winters I don't recommend it. People always end up in the ditch🤦‍♂️

[@squeaksvids5886]

This is a great video, this will probably be the closest I’ll get to go to the US. I take it truck don’t have speed limiters on them in the US?

[@unclecoolie]

Oh, they do. They usually know where most of the speed traps are.

[@MyVadson]

At 3:09:45 is this the Anaheim Ducks' bus by chance ?!

[@unclecoolie]

I actually remember that bus. I followed it into Kansas. It has Montana plates, so I doubt it.

[@bloqk16]

Gee! Can you imagine driving this stretch back in the days of 55 mph/89 kph? For those younger folks out there: The gasoline shortages in the Fall of 1973 forced federal legislation to be enacted to lower the speed limits to 55 mph, as a means to conserve fuel, in 1974. Although the law was flagrantly disregarded by many motorists, it was the law of the land . . . and law enforcement found it a good source of revenue with citing speeders. From 1987 to the 1990s, the 55 mph law was being relaxed on a state-by-state basis. By 1995, a federal transportation act relegated the setting of speed limits to the individual states.

[@unclecoolie]

I remember that 55 MPH time period well. In 1991 my family made a trip down to WV (from NY), and I first saw a 65 MPH sign in WV. I thought that was cool enough to take a picture of.

[@terryleddra1973]

At 4:01:40 I have to ask, is there any rule such as drive on the right unless overtaking?

[@unclecoolie]

Slower traffic is supposed to keep right, but it rarely enforced.

[@ScottsShots]

So why do you usually leave your clothes on your dashboard?

[@unclecoolie]

Lol. I put the clothes there to try to reduce the glare from the dashboard.

[@whattheheckamidoinghere4305]

Yup, just how my family does it, we trip in the car to Colorado where we have family there, same goes for Ohio.

[@bwcbiz]

What caused the compass heading to do a 270 as you left KC starting around 3:19:00? Navigation data based on cell towers?

[@unclecoolie]

I love the Garmin camera, but the software, especially for the heading could be improved. It's not like the GPS information is inaccurate: I've spot checked several points shown on the video to see if those were actually the correct locations, and each time it was within 50 feet of being spot on.

[@MrJamontoroja]

Ver el recorrido en tiempo real, es perfecto

[@unclecoolie]

Thanks!

[@dallasheltzell]

Good grief! You made it from St. Louis to Denver in 11 hours??? You averaged more than 74 mph even counting getting from Wildwood up onto 64/40 and then slower speeds through Kansas City? And you never got pulled over? Next time I want to go from my home north of Denver to see family in mid-Missouri, I want to ride with you! ;-)

[@unclecoolie]

Lol. I really don't speed much, but with 75 MPH speed limits, I usually keep the cruise control at 79 MPH.

[@leonidverevkin4927]

Cool! Why did you reupload though?

[@unclecoolie]

For some reason, it only rendered to 360p. I thought that maybe it would change after awhile, even though it finished processing and went live, but it didn't after more than 12 hours (I made it private after I first noticed the problem), so I just went ahead and re-uploaded, and this time it rendered properly. :O)

[@leonidverevkin4927]

unclecoolie Thanks for replying, now I understand why I couldn't watch the video.

[@unclecoolie]

My apologies for that mishap. I'll make sure the videos I upload are good before I let them go live.

[@ScottsShots]

Cough at 2:31:46

[@daniel4655]

After a long day behind the wheel last thing you need is some fool not looking before pulling out nearly causing a prang 11:04:20

[@unclecoolie]

I remember that, Lol.

[@scottbridge9391]

Great video. What kind of camera do you use to get this kind of video footage?

[@unclecoolie]

Thank you. I used the Garmin Virb Ultra 30.

[@scottbridge9391]

@@unclecoolie Wow... you must go thru a lot of memory cards! And a lot of cloud storage space as well.

[@unclecoolie]

@@scottbridge9391 Actually, no. I can record an entire day's drive on one memory card (256 GB Micro SD) that I backup every night onto a portable 4 TB hard drive.

[@scottbridge9391]

@@unclecoolie Wow.

[@dennismcclatchey1303]

Love the video, but for some strange reason I can't get day one up.

[@unclecoolie]

Thanks. Day one is pretty long - over 13 hours - so sometimes that might be the reason.

[@sudipta1502]

How long did this journey took?

[@unclecoolie]

The overall trip was around 44 hours, not counting stops.

[@부채삼성라이온스]

KC Royals home stadium at 3:10:18

[@commaphy8101]

May I ask how you recorded the whole trip?

[@unclecoolie]

I used A Garmin Virb Ultra 30 with a 256GB micro SD card.

[@dimitriosfromgreece4227]

@@unclecoolie AMAZING VIDEO BRAVO!!!!!! LOVE FROM SWEDEN ❤❤❤

[@unclecoolie]

@@dimitriosfromgreece4227 👍👍

[@McLovin1776]

Were you at least listening to music or a podcast or something? Holy crap, West Kansas would make me wanna blow my brains out if I was alone.

[@unclecoolie]

I didn't want to use copyrighted music. The one thing about western KS/eastern CO is looking forward to seeing the Rockies eventually.

[@yuukinishimura9346]

7:20:21 W100°

[@unclecoolie]

😊

[@ЮрийМихеев-у7у]

В штате Миссури есть очень красивые места.

[@unclecoolie]

I was a little surprised that there were. I pictured Missouri being completely flat, so I was glad to see some nice, rolling hills and small mountains.

[@konsojo5229]

hi i completed the end of day 2

[@dennismcclatchey1303]

What a pity that Dashcams don't come with a radar, like saying north-east or south west. And have an arrow moving in the direction the driver is going.

[@unclecoolie]

No. All that I had available is the heading shown in degrees, and that's not always accurate.

[@GregHeffleyPlays1995]

4:04:00 where I live

[@unclecoolie]

At the toll plaza? 😊

[@GregHeffleyPlays1995]

No I live at exit 353 in kansas

[@DonutBork]

think your heading is really very confused towards the end of the video lol

[@unclecoolie]

Yeah, it's not always very accurate.

[@dennismcclatchey1011]

Any chance of doing one unedited? Or would that be an impossible task?

[@unclecoolie]

Maybe one day. But you are the first and only one who's requested a totally unedited version.

[@brownyeet3981]

Was here

[@AnimatingStudios2002]

9:26:15 Birdy took a doo doo

[@unclecoolie]

The bug guts really piled up on my windshield in western KS, eastern CO.

[@AbdulE46]

What car??

[@unclecoolie]

A Nissan Pathfinder.

[@jonathangottlieb3975]

Did it take forever to get through Kansas? Have you been to all 50 states in your lifetime?

[@unclecoolie]

It went surprisingly fast for me. I have been to 43 states so far. Only Vermont, Michigan, Mississippi, Louisiana, North Dakota, Alaska and Hawaii I haven't been to yet.

[@jonathangottlieb3975]

I've been to about half the states in the country, all of New England, most of the east coast expect for South Carolina and Georgia. Been to Chicago, IL, lay overs in Milwauke, WI and Phoenix,AZ, been to Ohio, PA and Nevada inland and been to all 3 west coast states and Hawaii the island of Maui.

[@jonathangottlieb3975]

Haven't been anywhere in the Rockies yet

[@kar460]

Do not come to ND if you think Kansas is bad ND may be worst. West side of the state though is kind of hilly. From Fargo ( east side) to Bismarck/Mandan is all flat. After Mandan is kind of hilly. Lol North Dakota is boring to drive through.

[@omersar3765]

Please come to turkey

[@unclecoolie]

Maybe one day I will. I want to do more road trips overseas at some point.

[@connorbullough3349]

11:04:23 That was close

[@unclecoolie]

It was. I remember that well.

[@zacharyowens3547]

3:23:06 highway 69

[@meghan7421]

This day of driving semes really boring driving through the plains. How bored were you?

[@unclecoolie]

It was the excitement of things to come that got me through, especially through western Kansas and eastern Colorado. I kept looking to see if I could see the Rockies up ahead, but it wasn't until I was close to Limon, Colorado before I could finally see them. Day 3 was definitely the most scenic day of this drive.

[@meghan7421]

Wait a minute, why did you go to seattle in the first place?

[@cjbwvuit]

Meghan Sullivan I think he said he never did a cross country road trip before

[@theactivegamers]

Voice reveal 4:04:24

[@unclecoolie]

Correct. 😊

[@tylerhodge6597]

May4 that's my bday

[@Didine-z4c]

😍😍😍

[@ibrahimjalloh6603]

This is not 12 Hours

[@radixs]

ur drying pants in yer car?

[@unclecoolie]

Lol. No. I put my shorts on the dashboard to reduce the glare that reflects off of the windshield onto the camera.

[@sitymusic]

А собственно зачем человек поехал так далеко?

[@unclecoolie]

This was part of my drive from Washington, DC to Washington state. I had never driven across the U.S. before, so that's why did this drive.