Love this video. Many folks who haven't traveled extensively by car have no idea just how empty parts of this country are. I have had similar experiences to this in Utah and Arizona. Well done.

@JoeandNicsRoadTrip

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for that. And yes, so many great places like this in the US.

@krakenwoodfloorservicemcma5975

Жыл бұрын

It feels even more empty when you live there.

@MeadowDay

Жыл бұрын

Let’s hope the peace of these areas last forever

This is one of my fave of y'alls road trips. The terrible loneliness and grandeur of Hiawatha Rd was really something

@JoeandNicsRoadTrip

11 ай бұрын

Thank you!

I enjoy traveling with y'all. The census data you provide for each of the little towns is informative and interesting.

I've gone through Southern Wyoming, but never been any farther North. The vids you made of Cody and Yellowstone made me rethink Wyoming. The Southern part reminds me of pictures I've seen of the surface of the moon.

Brings back happy memories of so many roads like this that I often drove through WY, UT, CO and Montana (and NoDak) now most driving is through NV, which is also desolate and beautiful. I think when driving through the desert is when I am absolutely the happiest

@JoeandNicsRoadTrip

Жыл бұрын

I'm with you on that. This was one of my favorite drives ever.

@jeepgirljody

Жыл бұрын

Nice!

Beautiful. I had dreams of a landscape just like this as a kid. I found out I was adopted and that my father grew up on a ranch in Colorado, and this basically looks like his back yard view!.

@Imagineitisraining

Жыл бұрын

That must have been very exciting for you. Great story

I meandered 1000 miles in these same areas for the last solar eclipse, iti s truly magnificent country. Thanks for the return trip.

Incredible road trip, a marvel…..the open, 😊lonely landscape is both beautiful and fearsome,….❤❤❤

I drove southwestern Wyoming in winter. It's far more desolate that time of year. As I recall, heading to higher elevations it ranged between merely snowing, to near blizzard conditions, near zero degrees, at times could not see the road, high or low beam, unless I turned off the headlights, completely but kept the sidelamps on - this cut down the blinding headlight glare on blowing snow, making the roadway apparent, again. There was zero traffic for hours - haha, no worries about traffic, yet, not a good place to be stranded. That's why a kept moving. But THEN, heading westward, finally, into Utah, I entered what seemed a magical oasis place - the Salt Lake City valley, which was a spring like 40 degrees F, and NO SNOW, an enormous relief after hours of barren, bitter cold, nearly featureless landscape driving. On a city park picnic table, in these lowlands, you could look up to the higher surrounding mountains and watch the storms snow line slowly descending lower and lower. That's an amazing sight for someone from the flatter, American midwest, lacking such high elevations.

😂😂 when you showed the kum n Go gas station, I started the jokes immediately 😅😅😅

Love your adventures. You definitely take the road less traveled. Have fun and stay safe.

@JoeandNicsRoadTrip

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching. :)

Awesome that you took the back roads. I used to live in Clark, CO...NW CO one of my favorite places ever!

Hi Lord Spoda Thank you again for this superb video. As you stopped 'in the mid of nowhere', I remembered Ned Le Doux's song 'Some people do' from his album 'Sagebrush', particularly the line : It's not the place to breakdown, just keep driving through..... A trip to Devil's Tower would have been a cherry on the cake. Also Chris Le Doux's newly installed life size statue in Cheyenne during pandemic, I was waiting for to see. Best wishes for your onward journey!💐

@JoeandNicsRoadTrip

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the great comment, Rajeev. We will be going to Devil's Tower in time.

I have seen many trucker videos of these areas and they are so desolate. It is good to see that not all of America is crowded. I live in Australia and I can tell you that many parts of iot are exactly like that. Safe travels to you!!

Love your videos on the West, so desolate, good u had your wife with u too. Ya'll compliment one another quite well. RB, Conyers, GA

There's a great hot spring up on the mountain just outside of Steamboat Springs call Strawberry Park. Probably the best and most beautiful hot springs I've ever been to.

Wow... Love this video and the soundtrack. Greetings from France.

If your ever in Tombstone go east out in the desert in the middle if nowhere there is a huge antique place full of things gathered from the desert. They have Spanish tin uniforms worn by Conquistadors and from their horses armor. Very interesting place but while my friend and I was there nobody came out to talk with us. A little creepy.

@dopeMike_

11 ай бұрын

You got a town name?

Kum & Go?! A commercial franchise with a suggestive name utterly unknown to we uppity New Englanders. The two of you were still kidding about it in the car probably some distance from where you too were, I take it, first introduced to its notable name. More seriously, your viewers can only repeat our thanks for your taking the time to pull over and give us a longer panoramic view of an amazingly beautiful but completely unpopulated stretch of our nation along the Wyoming/Colorado border. May it forever remain just as it is!

@JoeandNicsRoadTrip

Жыл бұрын

I agree, I hope the road is never paved and people stay away. The USA needs places like this. The gas station chain, btw, is pretty large in the middle of the country. Its corporate headquarters are in Des Moines, and you can find them in Arkansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Colorado and of course Iowa. A lot of them are pretty nice, and have sandwich shops inside. Reminds a bit of WaWa's in the East.

Wow, true back roads. Makes one appreciate all the wide open spaces.

I have driven this section of road many times since the mid 70’s. I lived in both Rock Springs & Steamboat Springs. Long before cell phones were in use. A lot of this section does not have cell service now. Have seen many wild horses, deer, & antelope on this route. It’s definitely a different experience in the winter. Irish Canyon is a must see. There is now an unimproved campground near there.

@JoeandNicsRoadTrip

Жыл бұрын

It was a great drive. Enjoyed it a lot.

@jeepgirljody

Жыл бұрын

I love Irish Canyon... I have studied the geology and history and I adventure around here often. Did you know at one time it had a drainage out of both ends of the canyon?

Living in the West, and having traveled extensively throughout the West, if find this is the most fascinating and enthralling video that I have ever seen anywhere. Just fascinating from beginning to end.

@JoeandNicsRoadTrip

Жыл бұрын

Wow, thank you, Cosmo! :)

I love this stuff! Amazing. You sure get a kick out of those kum and go's!

@Imagineitisraining

Жыл бұрын

Yep, he did. I bet he wanted to say a lot. 😂

Hi, I just started watching your travels. I am really enjoying them. When you were in Santa Fe you kept saying Puwayblow. It is pronounced Pu ebb lo(Pueblo). I am from New Mexico and was happy to see your vlog. Sandee

@dopeMike_

11 ай бұрын

Poo web blow Cala Raydah

just after you got back in the car, headed down the road, it looked like a small town on the left. actually you passed a few small places. what were they? private homesteads, mining camps? to me that is so cool living out in the middle of nowhere. i love videos like this, just open space, no people around for miles.

@JoeandNicsRoadTrip

Жыл бұрын

It was about 30 miles down the road, and it was a ranch. It was a creepy looking ranch, btw, with wrecked cars and old barns that looked like they were disintegrating where they stood. I wanted to get a closer look, but it was closed off by a gate.

@davidbreen4727

Жыл бұрын

@@JoeandNicsRoadTrip yeah, i did notice a lot of stuff all around. just my curiosity. thanks. way out there would be spooky.

im a tad late on this post but I worked in that area for about a year,was staying in Rock Springs. I had to drive it every day,seven days a week .that is a trip that will mentally drain you.We mostly worked off Bittercreek road and the road there on,I was surveying for Green River,I have a cool topo map of that whole area. Did yoyu see the place with the wood AKJ47s on the no trespassing signs going over the road lol. Wild horses everywhere ,just a great place to see wild life,the wind is crazy in the Wyo. Im from Alabama,I got to really explore a lot of cool places,Adobe Town also pretty neat place noth of there.

Firstly always love all your videos, I love to travel and road-trips so much. I’ve been to the states and seen a lot also. I live down in Perth Western Australia and large parts of Western Australia are some of the emptiest places on earth. The part where you got out of the Bronco is very similar to the big empty parts of Western Australia, hours even full days where you won’t see anyone, another car or building. Love your channel I’ve watched all “the travel around the USA” videos

@JoeandNicsRoadTrip

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the kind words, Chris. And I hope you enjoy our traveling companion, Australian Siri. She's become a character in our videos herself. :)

@dopeMike_

11 ай бұрын

Been out to Broken Hill and when hes standing on the road in BFE thats what Sturt Hwy looks like, well that and dead kangaroos.

These rural country videos seem to be more entertaining than big city reviews!

At 6:18 I love how you came to a cautious FULL STOP at the stop sign.

I'm from Delta Colorado and live in Albuquerque NM. One thing that is for sure, you can always tell when you are in Colorful Colorado 💞

"The Middle of Nowhere." As a dyed-in-the-wool misanthrope who also hates NOISE, that's just where I want to be!🤗

The Wyoming/Colorado border country you drove through looks to have the perfect population density.

Wow what nice video love you guys ❤️❤️❤️👏👏👏👏👏

That bird on the grain silo is a Sandhill Crane.

@JoeandNicsRoadTrip

Жыл бұрын

Cool, thank you for the info. :)

You left from my hometown! ❤️

I would love to go to Wyoming and have a taste of solitude!

Great video. Loved the long segments with the music. Stunning scenery too. Can you shed some light on the music?

@JoeandNicsRoadTrip

Жыл бұрын

It should be listed in the description field. :)

The Hayden Grain Company, that huge metal building that looked so interesting is called a "grain elevator." It's where farmers take their crops and sell them to a middleman/proccessor, who "elevates" the grain, and then drops it down through drying equipment (so the wet grain won't spoil). After drying, the grain is elevated again, and dropped into those huge round storage silos, where the elevator owner stores the grain until prices rise. Then the elevator operator loads train cars and ships the grain to be processed in the cities. Most small towns throughout the farming areas of the country will have a grain elevator business. Elevators offer other services too. We used to take our grain to the elevator, where we paid them to crush it (sort of like pre-chewing the grain to make it more easily digestible) and add molasses, then we took the calorie-dense grain home again, where we would feed it to our young cattle to fatten them over the fall and winter, before selling them at the local "sale barn" auction house, where meat proccessors would buy them, fatten them some more and then butcher them.

I was born in Wyoming...if it could be that way year round, I would probably still live there. Yes you will see millions of stars at night.

I was out that way once and it felt like hours of endless rolling sage hills. Kinda crazy and mesmerizing actually.

Love the video’ I dream of driving these types of roads in the uk 😆 then I wake up and fall out of bed 🛌 America 🇺🇸 is so beautiful’ lucky people living there’ Thanks to Lord Spoda again’ he’s doing the travelling for everyone 👍

I have done the drive through these parts from CO up to Grand Teton via Lander, WY a couple of times now. It's long hours of driving, but so pretty, at least for long stretches. Way more fun than taking I-25/I-80.

@JoeandNicsRoadTrip

Жыл бұрын

Totally agree. One of my favorite drives ever.

8:37 The hay bales sailing by point to some sort of local productivity, however muted.

I remember back in the 70's Steamboat Springs Colorado wasn't much of anything. We used to live in Denver Colorado and go fishing up there and ski mobileing 😎

I did the same drive but opposite from Denver to Cody Wyoming. I saw some pretty unbelievable things

Much of Wyoming is sagebrush. It's a high plains desert after all. From the perspective of a beautiful desert area, it's better than most. Antelope are my favorite ( amazing and really tough prairie goats) Yellowstone and Jackson are nice.

My favorites places to explore nice trip.

Australian Ciri needs to Chill out.......I'm thinking that maybe she needs to "Kum & Go" more often...hahaha.... Great video LS, just love the "magnificent desolation of Western Colorado & Wyoming. So nice of Nicole to clean your windows too... wish I could get my wife to do that! Keep the great videos coming !

@JoeandNicsRoadTrip

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the great comment, Jimmy. I got a well needed chuckle while reading it. :)

@dopeMike_

11 ай бұрын

Just speak Australian to her maybe shes homesick.

Absolutely beautiful.

I lived in Kemmerer, Wyoming for a few years (location of the first J.C. Penney store). There is a 'Kum & Go' there, used to call it the 'jizz and split'.... That bird you mentioned on that grain silo is a Sandhill Crane.

@JoeandNicsRoadTrip

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for that. I have been to Kemmerer and seen that JC Penney downtown! :)

@barkerjames1980

Жыл бұрын

@@JoeandNicsRoadTrip nice little town, gets awfully cold and bleak in the winter!

@JoeandNicsRoadTrip

Жыл бұрын

@@barkerjames1980 Yeah, it was winter when I was there years ago. It was so cold snow flakes would fall from the sky, and there were no clouds. I had never seen that before!

@barkerjames1980

Жыл бұрын

@@JoeandNicsRoadTrip saw that lots of times! I was at a jobsite in the mountains north of town in January of 2002. The elevation was about 9,700', the temperature hovered around -72° for the entire night I was there. Was happy to get back to Kemmerer and its balmy -59°!

My fiancée always washes the windows while I pump the gas too. I'm following along with my atlas. There really is absolutely nothing in the NW section of Colorado. Craig looks like the very first town of significant size that you come to. Beautiful area!

@dopeMike_

11 ай бұрын

Fiancee.....that all changes when they get the "ring"

Magnificent desolation!! Ensure you check the tools are there, the spare tyre is inflated to proper pressure and bring along a Jerry can of petrol. Great video!!!

@JoeandNicsRoadTrip

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely. Better be ready - there's no phone service either. :)

@marywinn8953

Жыл бұрын

Petrol? Tyre not tire? Me thinks you are from across the pond.

@envitech02

Жыл бұрын

@@marywinn8953 LOL Almost correct Mary. I'm from Malaysia, formerly British Malaya. The influence is strong.

@dopeMike_

11 ай бұрын

@@marywinn8953 yea,nah,nah,yeah, mate.

I lived east of there. It’s better at night, you can drive by starlight without headlights. Saw a sign once in Baggs that said, “You have to be nuts to live in Baggs”.

@dopeMike_

11 ай бұрын

Ive done that in Texas and Oklahoma. Good times. I would have edited the sign to read "You have to have nuts to live in Baggs"

Hello from Fort Collins.💜

Ive been thereat graig to have a couple of my surgeries all the way from lander to craig

Love your video! In case you need cheap gas Costco and Sam's Clubs are selling gas at about $1 a gallon less than everyone. Check gas buddy. To help prevent breathing/ colds issues as you arrive in dry hotel rooms run some cold water in tub and then run hot shower to manufacture some humidly in your very dry hotel room helps breathing. Much of your areas are high desert low humidly. Enjoy Colorado.

@JoeandNicsRoadTrip

Жыл бұрын

Cool, thank you for the tips, Joan. :)

i haven't watched the entire video yet, just had to say, that is paradise. now the rest of the video.

I am surprised is so desolate! This is America. The greatest country in the world!

There are huge diamond deposits along the Colorado Wyoming border. Mostly colored diamonds. A lot of them just lying on the surface.

@dopeMike_

11 ай бұрын

I had some redneck diamonds in my back seat last weekend.

The really amazing thing about being out there is that 90% of that land is bureau of land management and you can go wherever you want

@dopeMike_

11 ай бұрын

Do they allow you to camp out there?

Thanks!

@JoeandNicsRoadTrip

6 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Nice road trip and thanks for sharing! I LOVE the desolate parts during the day but NOT at night for visibility and safety reasons. Have you done drives in Kansas? It is my most favorite state for so many reasons, even though I am a native from San Jose, CA. Happy Traveling! 😎

@JoeandNicsRoadTrip

Ай бұрын

I have done several rural Kansas drives, as well as visits to Dodge City, Topeka & Wichita. :)

@DougCeleste

Ай бұрын

@@JoeandNicsRoadTrip Are those Kansas road trips on KZread? If so, I will have to find them. I have a dear friend who lives northeast of Wichita in cozy Peabody. I will be in my beloved Kansas in September. So many interesting towns and tourist areas to see in Kansas, especially Mt. Sunflower and the Cathedral of the Plains. 😎

@JoeandNicsRoadTrip

Ай бұрын

@@DougCeleste They are. There’s quite a few, actually. 😀

@DougCeleste

Ай бұрын

@@JoeandNicsRoadTrip Thanks for letting me know. I just discovered and subscribed to your very interesting KZread channel. I will have to look up more of your videos for viewing since I share your LOVE for the open road since doing long road trips ever since the early 1970's. Cheers to you two from New Mexico and be safe out there on the road like I try to be, also! 😎

I hated being places like this when I was an OTR truck driver.

I worked in Southwest Wyoming for many years. We used to say about Wamsutter Wyoming. "Its not the end of the world, but you can see it from there"

Beautiful country, on the subject of gas stations I have noticed over probably 20+ years now a lot of small operators have opened up as opposed to the majors like Shell, Texaco etc but I'm guessing this might be in name only and the big multi nationals still own them, I've seen many disappear from the scene over my lifetime.

Give me a simple home in that stunning landscape and I am a happy camper.

You want to check out an architectural achievement take I70 West from Aspen to Glenwood Springs. Check out Breckenridge too.

That my friend is exactly why I live in Wyoming and not California. Awesome video.

@JoeandNicsRoadTrip

Жыл бұрын

Thank you, Martin! 😀

How many miles have you put on that Bronco since starting your journey? Awesome channel.

@JoeandNicsRoadTrip

Жыл бұрын

We're at 11 months on the road, and we've put just shy of 47,000 miles on it.

I really loved that area of southern Wyoming. So desolate, yet so beautiful. I'd love to live out there... where the people AIN'T! LOL

Reminds me of the road the family went through in the movie the hills have eyes lol

Where do you get your music? Nice, modern grooves, go well with your drives and drone shots.

@JoeandNicsRoadTrip

Жыл бұрын

From KZread. They have made a huge library available to use cost free.

looks like you were on a dirt road most of the way. You should have a survival kit with you in these totally desolate areas.

@JoeandNicsRoadTrip

Жыл бұрын

Right!? :)

Theirs also historical building there in Colorado I went to Colorado ones a year

Gorgeous

Sometime you should come back and go to Hiawatha and Powder Wash. Two places where my dad grew up, and no one lives anymore. They were oilfield man camps. Now I think they send a couple workers there and that’s it.

3:57 - "A" button in circle is off :) Stop - start system, right...? If so, good job ;) Thank God my old 2009 Charger does not have it :)

I wonder if Kum & Go might also own the Pump n' Munch convenience store chain?

@dopeMike_

11 ай бұрын

No they recently changed the name to Pump N Dump so the people in RVs wouldnt get confused and it made the single mothers of the area happier.

Traffic Jams are not really a problem in Wyoming.

Very nice drive !! I come here to Wyoming every summer for work in Saratoga Can you tell me the road name or number the one that took you to wy, colo, border pls. Thanks Be safe

@JoeandNicsRoadTrip

Жыл бұрын

The road is Snake River Spur Road 129.

@ramirozamora8117

Жыл бұрын

@@JoeandNicsRoadTrip thank you

Country Roads Take Me Home... Thought you're going to make tracks to Provo, Utah?

@JoeandNicsRoadTrip

Жыл бұрын

Yes, this summer. St. George, Moab, Provo, some smaller towns as well.

You should see those flatlands in a blizzard.

0:14 - Yup , not a lot out there , except Dinosaur National Monu. , not many people, you can get the solitude in bunches!! 2:26 - just imagine what the sky would look like at night, if no clouds??

Wyoming is Beautiful. My Sister and Her Husband lived there. But there both Deceased. There Daughter still lived there

@JoeandNicsRoadTrip

Жыл бұрын

It really is.

Ah 430! Irish Canyon! Lovely area.

The West is where I spent most of my life. You won't know the middle of nowhere until you take the Alcan Highway through Canada, Yukon and into Alaska.

you have lived my dream dude..

The southern Red Desert. The Middle of nowhere? Yep. All of the Red Desert feels that way. Few towns, few people, but lots of wild horses, oil and gas wells and rattlesnakes. I'm surprised you didn't see any horses as you drove the dirt road that kept crossing back and forth over the border. (or maybe you did, and didn't realize they are wild.) I'm a bit anti-social, so the Red Desert is one of my favorite playgrounds. 🙃

@akafletcherforever

8 ай бұрын

im a tad late on this post but I worked in that area for about a year,was staying in Rock Springs. I had to drive it every day,seven days a week .that is a trip that will mentally drain you.We mostly worked off Bittercreek road and the road there on,I was surveying for Green River,I have a cool topo map of that whole area. I can't believe they didnt show the place with the wood AKJ47s on the no trespassing signs going over the road lol. Wild horses everywhere ,just a great place to see wild life,the wind is crazy in the Wyo. Im from Alabama,I got to really explore a lot of cool places,Adobe Town also pretty neat place noth of there.

@tedpreston4155

8 ай бұрын

@@akafletcherforever Adobe Town is among my favorites too! It's an especially good place to go when you don't want to see another human! People don't know what they're missing!

@akafletcherforever

8 ай бұрын

@@tedpreston4155 I agree,I think of that area alot

Question: Are you and the wife slowly heading back home to Texas? Or you be traveling some more? I'm enjoying your traveling videos, don't want it to end.

@JoeandNicsRoadTrip

Жыл бұрын

We are making our way to Texas, will take about 4 days off and then we’ll be back out on the road. Heading east this time.

@dopeMike_

11 ай бұрын

@@JoeandNicsRoadTrip Are you hoping to keep traveling indefinitely or are you planning on stopping at some point other than your quick stops in DFW?

that would be one amazing spot to see the sky at night.

@JoeandNicsRoadTrip

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely.

If y'all come back to Rock Springs, I'll take you to Brown's Park, where Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid would frequent

Wyoming that far off the beaten path..what would you do to make a living and where is the water?

Its a sandhill crane thats painted on silo

One of the Wyoming and Colorado's outback s high plains drifter.

Who is your cell provider? I noticed when you were out in BFE you still had a 3G signal.

@JoeandNicsRoadTrip

11 ай бұрын

T-Mobile.

Haha I was thinking I hate to get into it with road rage way out there. It's beautiful though.

@JoeandNicsRoadTrip

Жыл бұрын

Perfect place for a serial killer, lol.

@donaldmilhoan6379

Жыл бұрын

@@JoeandNicsRoadTrip I was thinking of that too haha

Sir, could you please share the name of the musical cd, you played, beginning at the 5:10 min mark, in this video. I've been trying to locate the name of that piece, without success. Thank You, Sir..

@JoeandNicsRoadTrip

Жыл бұрын

The name should be in the description field.

That's an old grain elevator where farmers sell crops.

Where you looking for a slap from your wife giving her the gears about cleaning windows lol. ATM Kum & Go lmao.

@JoeandNicsRoadTrip

Жыл бұрын

Right!!? Kum and Go, lol!!

Australian siri doesn't mess around

@JoeandNicsRoadTrip

Жыл бұрын

She can be hard to get along with. :)