You have led a far too sheltered life. Buckee’s is a destination for everyone. We love them. Palm trees are in California, Arizona, Florida, Alabama on the coast. The fence is to keep the wild animals from going onto the highways. Telephone poles and lumber with the logs. Two of our children drive cross country semi trucks and are busy all of the time. The world is busy. Crepe Myrtles flower in August. The ones you saw with the thick trunks are very old. So glad you are having some good experiences.

@Lea941

2 ай бұрын

We have palm trees here in Louisiana too, not a whole lot but we do have them

@lisarossnagel7815

2 ай бұрын

I went to a wedding on the Jersey shore, and they had palm trees there. Of all things! And yes, they were live.

The fence along the interstate is to keep forest critters from getting on the roadway. That would be raccoon's possums, Armadillo's, turtles anything that lives in the woods that would try to cross the highway.

Thank you for checking in. I’ve followed you for years. Have the original “ Not just beans “ cookbook. You folks seem like family. Praying for all of you.

You have discoverd we are being lied to about product shortages. Semis are everywhere.😊

Just a frugal tip, Bucee’s sells brisket by the pound! We get it and take it to our hotel for a great dinner. (Plus, gluten free as needed)

dont get boiled peanuts from the gas station. find someone that has a road side stand. they are always the best.

@akbouton

2 ай бұрын

This!

@jimpickard3760

2 ай бұрын

Agree! If you like them, that's the best place to get them!

@donnagrifford7142

2 ай бұрын

Yes!!!!!!!!

@edefyinggravity

2 ай бұрын

Yes! And the worse the spelling/ grammar on the sign, the better. 😂

The fences are to keep deer off the interstate.

@jeanninedemers4277

2 ай бұрын

I agree.

@donnamiller-xe9bd

2 ай бұрын

It is all of the ports in the southeast. Savannah Charleston to Florida

@missy2986

2 ай бұрын

Yes to keep 🦌 off road.

Buckeeeesss!!!! Fun to go through. Great, clean bathrooms!!!😊

@leahbuchholz8556

2 ай бұрын

Soon to have one in northern Colorado. March 18

@rhondawelker6742

2 ай бұрын

Just had one open recently in Springfield,MO. Had never heard of them til shortly before they built the one here. Finally stopped to fuel up and get a beverage on the way home and see what it was like. Can’t figure out all the hype. We decided if we need to stop in the future, we will fuel up on the end where the soft drinks are located so we don’t have to walk through the store. Couldn’t get over the amount of money people were spending. To each his own. Just not for us. We did like the fuel price. That was the up side for us.

@pattyross2509

2 ай бұрын

We stopped in the Springfield Buckees a few weeks ago, our first experience too. I wasn't impressed with the prices on the decor, but I did like lots of it. Fun signs and things. The only thing we walked out with was some beer. Then, a couple of weeks after that I rode with a friend who was returning her father to his house. I did end up spending money that trip. I was in a different mindset and found a few good car toys for the grandchildren. We haven't tried the barbeque because we had plans for the Whole Hog restaurant off I44.

Bc Florida is not a pass through state. Semis have to go there then turn around and come back. They don’t pass through one state to get to another. Plus they pick up merch that’s shipped to the coast then distribute to places like Montana.

@jeanninedemers4277

2 ай бұрын

There are so many more semis on the road now than there were, let's say, 10 or 20 years ago.

There is no comparing Buc-ees to a small little Quick Trip!!

Wow! You are probably the first person I ever followed on KZread....and you are only a few miles from where I live in MS!!! I almost feel like I just missed meeting a celebrity in person!!!!

@apostolicmodestfashion

2 ай бұрын

I’m in Mississippi also 👋

@sharonhughes588

2 ай бұрын

@@apostolicmodestfashion where are you? I am just about 15-20 minutes north of Gulfport.

The fence is to keep deer off interstate, those were pine trees. Unfortunately the pine trees in Mississippi and Louisiana are dead because beetles have killed/infestation.

Im sorry you had an emergency but im glad you took us along on your way back!

Years ago, my 7 year old, who is now 38 exclaimed "BEACH TREES" when we got off the plane at airport in Orlando...lol

@darlys1962

2 ай бұрын

That's when you know you are on vacation... if you are from the north, lol! We live in OH 😊

I was cracking up at this video and the one from a few days ago. We live in North Central FL and our county has acres and acres of planted trees, both for harvesting the trees and for harvesting the pine straw. They used to use lots of them for poles, and now it's mainly for paper. The pine straw (pine needles used to mulch) is a great product and harvested each year. Yes, we have some cloudy days, but mostly we have sun, sun, and more sun. Glad you could visit even as I'm sorry you had a family emergency. Also, the fence is for keeping the wildlife off the highway.

Hi, as you traveled I10 between Panama City and Pensacola you saw signs for NAS Whiting Field and Milton. That's home for me. The walls in Pensacola are sound barriers. 50 Years ago all Palms were transplants, but not any more . I was allowed to dig up some monkey grass that grew beneath Palm trees. I mow down tiny palms every time I mow

The fences are to keep deer and other animals off the highway. You will see these in a lot of states. You’ll also see wildlife crossing above highways, in some places to give animals a safe place to cross. Basically a bridge over the highway for animals.

The fences are for deer, and the logs are for all kinds of paper products. Disposable diapers, TP, etc.

Yes! Palms grow in florida. It's the state tree. Palmettos, sable palms are native

The fences are to keep deer out. The wood is to make paper products.

@cathywhisenhunt9860

2 ай бұрын

Or charcoal

I thank God for answered prayers along the way with your trip! As an Aussie I love seeing your travels & hearing your "enquiring minds" questions! Looking forward to the answers!! 🥰Blessings from South Australia💕🐨

Your dramatic music for Buccees cracked me up. The Babylon Bee did an entire episode of their "Californians Moving to Texas" Series😂😂 I still remember stopping at the original Buccees at Luling going home to San Antonio from Texas A&M College Station. ❤🥰

We live in Alabama and visit my folks down in Florida. That high fence I think is to keep deer off the road. The log trucks are taking the logs to the paper mills.

Pulp is made from trees for paper. Fences are to keep animals off the highway. There are many varieties of palm trees. Most native to Florida. I think the peanut is a bean, not a nut. The economy isn't great, but a lot of goods continue to be hauled. People still need what they need. There is no shortage of anything in any stores I go to. People are consumers.

Logs are for paper, mulch, etc. There may be tree farms nearby. Near Lufkin, Texas there is a paper plant and a few miles away is a forest that grows trees for the paper plant. Could be the fence you saw on I-10 was a forest of trees for paper .. you’d think we need less paper now days. Also some trees are sold for light poles

@marciebray5303

2 ай бұрын

Some people eat them not me but some people

@marciebray5303

2 ай бұрын

To keep the trees in

@marciebray5303

2 ай бұрын

Make paper wood building material

@michellepickering2271

2 ай бұрын

Power poles

Praying for safe travels!!!

I live in the south so I’m familiar with everything that you’re questioning. Watching y’all is like watching someone visiting a foreign country. I wonder if I’d feel the same if I visited the the part of our country you live in?

Love and prayers being sent!

Sending more prayers. Thanks for the cool tours

I just had those last summer on our trip to florida. I thought they tasted just like beans also. The lady at the gas station told me that during the depression they ate alot of boiled peanuts!

Squid is “Calamari”, a popular fried appetizer.

Thank you for inviting us along, so refreshing to feel warmth from our colder states

The reason they use water tanks, or some other wooden box by the road is because the garbage company doesn't supply a trash can. The trash guys hand take the trash out of the containers. This was how it was when we lived on a farm in West Virginia. We used a Rubbermaid storage box with a hinged lid. You have to try to keep the animals out of the trash.

I’m a southerner and its funny to see your amazement at what I know as normal!

Sending love and prayers for you and your family God Bless you all.🙏🙏🙏

Good morning, prayers and travel mercies. ❤️

The cheesecake fudge is wonderful !! Buckeyes is a wonderful place to visit !!🎉 Prayers for whatever’s happening !🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

i make my own boiled pnuts. raw peanuts in a crockpot with too much salt, for 3 days

I enjoyed your travels in the south. Prayers for your safe return home. Melbourne Australia

Continued prayers for your family! I have never been in that part of the country either so it sure is interesting to see the things you are pointing out. A friend of mine went to a Bucees when they took a trip to Tennessee; she said it was the most amazing place and a must-see if you are ever by one. Glad that God has been looking out for you on this trip and that you have had some time to visit with friends along the way.

Glad ya'll are okay. Thanks for the update. Were in Ft Lauderdale, the sub tropic portion of Florida. Love panhandle of Florida too but its like a different country between terrain, weather and people compared to here. Safe travels and blessings

Love watching you guys. May god keep you and your family in his loving care. Have a safe trip. 😊

10 is a major trucking highway. More than likely they were to be turned into telephone poles, and Buckys is known for clean restrooms.

Im glad yall are getting to have a good time among the bad. Keeping yall in my prayers. ❤

I had the same reaction to Bucees! Last year my husband and I went to one. I walked in while my husband was fueling up. I said a swear word to myself and walked right back out. Found him and said we better go through together because there is a good chance we will get lost by ourselves.

Happy to see y'all checking in. I hope everything gets better for you and your family.

Glad you are safe and sound. Continued travel mercies. I have a winter hardy crepe myrtle here in Ohio that is quite small. Have lived in both FL and NC and the crepe myrtle varieties there grow much larger.

The turnpijes on the radt coast arr loaded with semi yrucks all the time. My husband liked to drive at night because there were far less cars on the road . He did alot of runs to Florda and hauled all kinds of fruit and flowers depending on the season.

I have wild palms around me in north florida.

I went to church today. It was good. Sending prayers.

Fun show............drive safely.

Ugh, sorry you ended up in PCB. That doesn’t represent FL very well. Anyway, to answer your question, palm trees naturally grow in FL. The cabbage palm is the state tree.

Hope you made it back safe if you did and hope you do if you havent yet! Looks like you made the best of the adventure in the situation.

Crepe Myrtle have varying trunk sizes, depending on type. Pine trees have numerous applications; paper, flooring, paneling, and various building supplies.

Hope you get some rest. You look very tired. Family emergencies are so hard. May God be with you and your family and protect you all.

Prayers for you and your family. Safe travels too. Love Buc-ees! The bathrooms are the BEST ever and all the things. We live 20 minutes from one in Madisonville, Texas off I-45. :) The fence is a game fence to keep deer etc... on the other side and prevent them from entering the Highway. the Trees are logged for various products. The semi truck are always abundant here, or so it seems. Not sure that it is more than normal?

Squid is Calimari they bread it and it looks like little onion rings. They are really good if it is fresh. The fence is to keep deer off the highway.

Praying for safe and fun travels!❤🎉😊

Sending prayers, safe travels

How cool to see - Thanks for sharing! Take care.

Prayers for continued safe travels! The only native palm type plant in the SE US is the Palmetto shrub. All the Palm trees have otherwise been imported mostly from the SE Pacific and Asia. The only thing I use Squid for is to make calamari but it does have other preparations in Mediterranean style cooking. It is a fairly inexpensive protein and it is easily caught if you live near the ocean.

Loved the tour show. Plan some more for the future

Praying for everyone 🙏 ❤️

The truckers are delivering to Florida, a great red state. Remember Florida did not shut down during COVID. Now with NYC and CA problems, lots of businesses moved to Florida. Many folks following the jobs to Florida. The Georgia pine is used for many things like furniture and pallets. I-40 through Tennessee is also a very busy truck route. I-10 across the south, I-40 across the middle and I-90 across the north when traveling east to west. We've taken each route multiple times in our travels. We prefer taking I-75 north to I-65 north to I-90 west. We prefer I-90 to I-10 or I-40. Although, the scenery is definitively diverse and beautiful. We're from Ft. Laud, FL and worked on Miami Beach for decades. We moved to SE (Ketchikan) Alaska for 5 years. Now we are in E Tennessee where the grand children are. Military brats as well. Grew up traveling. Nurses now. Still love traveling. I'm glad things are looking up for your family. I'm still sorry it rained for days in Florida while you were there. Safe travels.

They water containers are trash receptacles. They have a lid that attaches and locks so the animals don’t get in them. They have them In Louisiana as well. They are quite ingenious and recycle something. The logs are probably going to the paper mills. Highway 10 is a huge travel highway through the southern states. There are lots of truckingcompanies in the south.

I love your reaction to the boiled peanuts! I feel the same. I do not like them at all.

I was in Miami Florida for 3 mos when i was in the Air Force. I drove all the way to SW Virginia for Christmas. It took me 1 day to get to Jacksonville and I had to go to JC Penney and buy a winter coat!

Safe travels!

Glad you enjoyed your stop at Bucee's. I work in one of the Alabama stores. Yes, brisket is my favorite.

Buc-ees opening this spring in Johnstown, Co

Thank you for sharing. Loving the travel videos. We just had to go to buccees when we were in MO to see what the hype was too

They are for trash. Mostly prevent dogs from tearing up trash. We love our boiled peanuts down here in South Mississippi.

Safe travels ❤

Prayers safe travels

I love hearing what you think about the South and asking questions. Buc-ee's has the best brisket sandwich. Sometimes I just go to that one in Alabama on I-10 just for that. I live in Gulf Breeze, Florida, so not far from that one. 1-10 is a huge corridor from east to west so that's why you see so many trucks. If you drive I-75 south and north in Florida you see a lot of trucks headed to Miami and that's a big shipping port there. Jacksonville has a big port so trucks carry from there all across the U.S. Logging trucks usually do not travel too far. They are very dangerous to be near. Lots of accidents with those.

Continued prayers for you and your family. ❤I’m originally from New England but have lived in Florida many years now . I never had boiled peanuts until I moved to Florida. You would probably like boiled peanuts better if you had them homemade. My husband buys raw peanuts from a produce farm stand type of store and boils them. He adds salt and crushed red pepper ( the pepper you add to pizza ) . His homemade peanuts are delicious. Bucee’s is definitely unique gas station/country store. The first time you go in one it’s wow 🤩. I like stopping there because they have something for everyone. My husband likes it ok but thinks it’s a tourist trap. You can easily spend lots of $$ at a Bucee’s . Though we do usually stop on a road trip because it has everything . Thanks for sharing your road trip . I love videos about travel and reviews of regional foods .

Don't get boiled peanuts from gas stations or cans. Get them from roadside stands or produce stands.

Aww stop and eat supper with us if you're coming thru Meridian! I have followed for years and would love to have y'all! The harshly pruned crepe myrtles actually bloom out pretty in the spring and summer. It's called crepe murder 😂

Hi from east central MS! I am a MA transplant and have never tried the boiled peanuts...lol. Have a safe trip and prayers to you and your family! 🙏

You will find more native palm trees in south Florida. In north Florida they are planted. BTW, you need to try boiled peanuts again but from a roadside vendor, spicy is best!! The fence along the highway is to keep the deer off the highway.

👍😊❣️ They are building a Buckeys along I 25 around the Johnston, Loveland Exits? Somewhere through there. I don't know if you still go back and forth to Colorado. 😊

@LivingOnADime

2 ай бұрын

Yep! Drove past it and missed the grand opening by a week. :-)

Safe travels to your family 🙏🏻

The logs are for paper.

Wow, that was a long drive! So interesting.

Palm trees do grow naturally in Florida but they like areas like the pine forest you saw running along I 95 or I75A couple of days ago. This is where your paper products come from.

Take good care and all the best--- always..

There is a Bucees near our son in Texas. I don't get it personally. Tried the brisket. It was just ok. They did have some really good caramel popcorn. Just ok. As for the wood, maybe for paper?

My husband and I just did a 5920 mile road trip to MS and LA. Absolutely LOVED Vicksburg Battlefield National Park!

Thank the Lord for His help! There are crazy drivers everywhere! Still praying 🙏 for you!

You guys are loved why wouldn't we wish you well w prayers. Although I respect your wishes regarding privacy I secretly would love to know what happened simply bcoz I love hearing stories about how God intervenes and protects his children. Wishing u all nothing less then peace-comfort-and I hope u feel our love for u and yours

❤Weyerhauser has huge tree farms for lumber, veneer, furniture, and other things. Telephone poles, fence poles, wood pulp for making paper.

Wow nice to see patty and Tommy!

The boiled peanuts from the convience store come from a can. If you see someone selling them by the side of the road get those.

Glad to hear you got to meet up with some friends and you had a little fun while taking care of things. Hope all is well now. Love and miss you guys. Take care, safe travels and God bless. 😊❤❤❤❤❤

Travel safely,,, Angels encamp round about you all. Enjoy the scenery and treats. I miss our traveling days with our son, across several states. We built wonderful memories. 🤗 Hugs and prayers... 💖 🌼🙏🏻🕊 Blessings.

Those white tanks are often used for water storage but at a curb unsure. Could be bad water so get a tankful delivery.

Wow buckees is amazing. Gas is 3.20 in milwaukee today.

Palm trees are VERY NATIVE.

I have not watched you in a long time… I miss seeing you with your mom

That is how it is going to Fla from Ohio and back home again. So many semi’s. I wish they had their own road. This is from someone whose husband has driven a semi most of his life.