This is a complete road trip compilation from Santa Monica, California to New York City over eight different days from June-September, 2017 – all recorded in time-lapse at 4fps (nearly 100,000 frames total). Of the 3,253 miles (5,235 kilometers) driven, about 3 miles of this drive is missing, mostly in Colorado near Poncha Springs. Nearly all of this drive was done in daytime, but there is about 10 minutes of this video done in darkness in Arizona (about 1:00:00 to 1:10:00). The weather was good for the most part, except from Pennsylvania all the way to the Bronx, before clearing up in Manhattan. This trip also includes driving through the solar eclipse of August 21 in Nebraska (at about 3:30:00), as well as driving over the old Tappan Zee Bridge in upstate NY, which permanently closed a month later with the opening of the new Mario M Cuomo Bridge adjacent to it.
The states passed through are
California (0:00:35-0:40:54)
Arizona (0:40:54-1:40:26)
New Mexico (1:40:26-1:41:09)
Colorado (1:41:09-3:07:17)
Nebraska (3:07:17-3:51:05)
Iowa (3:51:05-4:24:17)
Illinois (4:24:17-4:50:42)
Indiana (4:50:42-5:10:51)
Ohio (5:10:51-5:39:13)
West Virginia (5:39:13-5:40:48 & 5:47:09-5:51:52)
Pennsylvania (5:40:48-5:47:09 & 6:04:43-6:32:49)
Maryland (5:51:52-6:04:43)
New York (6:32:49-6:50:03)
The highest elevation of the drive was 11,539 ft (3,517 m) at 2:28:10. The highest elevation anywhere on the U.S. interstate system is 11,158 ft (3,401 m) at 2:33:41. Both of these elevations are two of the three continental divide crossings; the other, at 2:04:38 (10,856 ft / 3,309 m), is the first.
The hottest temperature of this trip was 110 F (43 C) in Needles, California (about 0:40:16), and the coldest temperature of this trip was 53 F (11 C) in Tusayan, Arizona (about 1:10:04) – only about 230 miles (370 km) from Needles.
Here’s the compilation of New York to California:
NY-VA: https://youtu.be/Hov8R0Ad4g0
VA-NE: https://youtu.be/n2MwuYkOOWs
NE-CA: https://youtu.be/qrhdQfBYAfY
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How did you manage to travel back in time from August 21 to July 17 halfway across the country like your date indicator states? I know that is not my imagination!
thanks for being on my city by ontario
6 days driving thru an unremarkable flat land full of nothing but trees, big trucks and chain restaurants. BORING
All i have seen from the thumbnail was:
California to New York: A Complete Road Trip, Video length: 6:50:15
I thought: You must have a really fast car.
Mom: how much gas money do you need?
Son: Yes
You passed by my hometown at 4:37:58 (Morton,IL)
At the beginning it looks exactly like GTA Los Santos beach cause GTA copies off LA
Perhaps for a musical background, one could open another window, and listen to this playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeLRYog22tq925C2or5FYIZWdssWeV8WW
Listen simultaneously.
Colorado is by far the most beautiful state on this trip, no doubt!
Just add lo-fi…
40:47 I literally found this exact location on Google Maps. Some trees grew there and it looked slightly different. Creepy.
38:56 why are THEIR so many trucks??!?
Miami to Seattle
great
省了去美国自驾游的钱
beautiful nature. awesome country. Greetings from germany. …. but is it timelaps? looks like normal speed 😀
I'm sorry, but who the Hell are you? This is totally fantastic!! Back in 1962 my family lived in Pasadena. I was born in Santa Monica. During that summer, we took 2 months (4 girls, 1 boy, and 2 parents) to drive on Route 66 back to New York in a Chevy Greenbriar van. I have not watched your entire video, yet, but I will. We photographed and used an 8mm camera to record the trip. Great video. Thumb's UP.
I like how midway through Colorado the graphic engine just quit on us and distant objects weren't even displayed anymore ^^
Aka fog
Funny how one of the things my european brain misses in these videos are ruins of castles and fortresses on some hilltops and cliffsides…but since there was no medieval civilization there to build any of them…seems odd but at some places i expect to see a castle^^
Hey. How's your engine oil after a long drive?
Was it sped up by the same rate all the time? I felt it took ages to get from LA to Omaha, and then I was suddenly in New York… ?
1:12:48
When you drink that nitro cold brew early in the a.m, and you get early stages of muddbutt and start to prairiedog, so you pull over to shit in a home depot bucket and wipe your ass with yesterday's old pair of socks.
This video made me so tired that I just booked my airline tickets to NY.
From Nairobi Kenya, twas awesome watching solar eclipse.
This journey could have been 5 hrs. You driving slow,. With that road I can use 100KPH
how many days did you spend on driving ?
My wife worked at Scattergood Friends School at 4:19:27 on the left. True story.