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I was so disappointed when you visited the Lake District, it was a horrible gloomy day and on a scale of 1-10 (10 being the most impressive), I'd say you saw it as barely a 2. You asked us to guess what you call those signs, I'm guessing that you call them titties or boobies!!. 😚😛

I always found it quite a desolate and forbidding, inhospitable landscape, when passing through it in my childhood and teens. I felt temporarily suspended from civilisation, be it Manchester or Sheffield. Lol I,ve felt a kind of wonderment travelling snake pass, but never thought of it as straightforwardly beautiful or pretty, I.e, like a Constable painting or Vaughan Williams' Lark Ascending, Lol I enjoyed the video and seeing it from a different perspective, so to speak.

I'm 37yrs old. $73,000 biweekly and I'm retired, this video has inspired me greatly in many ways!!!!!!!!!!!!♥️💜

Sheffield to Manchester. Lady Bower Reservoir on router with giant plug hole and submerged village. Then Glossop lovely little gaff.

The curved arrows painted on the road: side roads off the main road? Or curves in the main road? And/or laybys? Sometimes I don't really see anything!

From comments you both made in earlier video's... it appears Chris's deployment will end quite soon. When you return to the U.S. will you recommend to your friends that they take a driving vacation to our small and humble island? But when you leave... I'll miss your videos. And II hope you will return again once more. LOVE :)

You may not have seen it but at Ladybower reservoir there is a village under the water flooded to create the reservoir back around the Second World War There Heston be a church tower sticking up through the water until they blew it up for safety reasons.

There aren't trees on the tops because at a certain height, trees don't survive. If you look at a mountain, you can see a definitive line where the trees stop, a bit like the snow line. As soon as it snows in the area. the Snake Pass is the first to close to traffic.

The building you passed was the snake pass inn a pub about half way over but it looks closed.

Enjoyed this drive through The Snake Pass, not a part of the UK I've done yet but it's on my list!

You should take a trip to Chester

Thanks for that beautiful car journey ❤😊 🌲🌲🌲

Wow. The Snake Pass looks amazing. However - I was even more blown away by the beauty of the winter sky. That was something else. Great vlog 😊

Thanks for the drive over snake pass .brought back happy memories. Wishing you all the best.

You guys are certainly filling your boots with our countryside. You have travelled more in my idle 60 yrs of life. I feel a little bit ashamed. Well done!

Snake pass is my favourite motorbike ride in the whole of England, there are equal rides in Wales and Scotland but nothing else in England beats it... I learnt a few weeks ago that the Country I was born in 53 years ago is roughly the size of Oregon in the US... The UK has a population of 68 million and Oregon's population is 4 million... it blows my mind, and when you see how densely populated the UK is, you find it really hard to believe that the UK is still 90% countryside, the city's and towns/villages only take up about 10% of the land mass. There are society's and UK legislation that protect old and existing footpaths and ancient track ways allowing the population to roam the land freely, and even now they fight to increase our rights to roam in the more restricted areas. So a heartfelt thank you to yourselves and other non UK citizens who come to our beautiful country and remind us of how priveledged we are to actually be able to live where we do, through your videos and reactions on your youtube channel.

I live near here, driven the road may times. However, that sky though. You were blessed. Never seen it so pretty. HOPE this road does not close. It is really under threat. Costs of repair.

A road I know very well it can be bleak in winter but stunning in summer, I really hope you're enjoying England.

So envious of those cyclists and their ride down after the long slog up.

Speaking from the ‘other side’, I.e. an English family living the US (I have driven the pass many times; I am a lancashire lad after all) once the elevations level out and the trees disappear, it reminds of the road to Devil’s Tower heading out of South Dakota. From Minnie, that was an awesome road trip…

Hiya Jess, Chris, Colette and Shane hope you are all well my friends 🙏. Love these tiny streets full of quaint shops and hidden gems. It was a shame the city wall was closed but the rest of your walk more than made up for it 😊 Thank you for all the time and effort you invest in your incredible channel. Wishing you a great Friday and an even better weekend. ❤ xx

It’s taken an American couple to travel the ‘entire’ north rural roads of UK during most if not all of the Winter. That’s not for the faint hearted. Not even Brits would do this. It’s opened my eyes to places I had no idea existed .

You should drive the "Bealach na Ba "on the west coast of Scotland. Also, "Wrynose Pass and Hardknott Pass" in the Lake District.

Great video love Norfolk my family come from norfolk

It's a shame you didn't come in summur, the hikes are fantastic.

At around the 8 minute point in your video, marks the location where my friend collided with a sheep which jumped out in front of us whilst descending on our road bikes, he was doing around 45mph, broke his pelvis and the sheep walked away, paramedics and ambulance came out to take him to the hospital, and for some reason the police arrived because of the sheep wandering in the road, not sure what they intended to do about the sheep, arrest it 😂. Nice video, good to see it from someone else’s perspective, living here we simply take it for granted.

I’ve been to the Peak District several times but never driven Snake Pass. Beautiful. Always the first road to become impassable when it snows though 😂

My Son was in Uni in Sheffield for 5 years and the Snake Pass was the best way to get their from Liverpool, that aside, it is the only road I've driven that I thought I was going to die, Hit an extremely thick bank of fog at 60mph, hit the brakes and so, very nearly went over the edge. 60 mph was never a speed again. Snake Pass needs to be respected.

Spooky -there was a piece on the radio yesterday about the land slides (slips!) along Snake Pass and I wondered what it would be like to drive it . Then today I found your video and now I know ! 🙏

It's probably the most closed road in Britain is Snake Pass.

Sheep aren’t “allowed” on the road. But sheep are very good at getting through fences, so … best warn drivers. Once again, thanks for showing me this through new eyes: I drive this road often, just as a means to get from A to B, and had forgotten how beautiful it is.

I know the road well. In fact in a former life I used to drive trucks and have driven artics ( trailer trucks) Glossop to Sheffield for a bakery on night trunk runs. Great fun.

heard of Snake Pass(in the news for being closed due to snow usually)..but never been,,,thanks for the ride and look-see...))

Really enjoying your vlog and it brings back lots of memories of driving my son, with his stuff, back and forth from Sheffield where he was at Uni, at the start and end of every term (semester) along that very same road. Greatly appreciate the effort you put into exploring the UK and making the most of your time here....😊

Reminds me of being in Yorkshire on holiday but having to go back to Manchester to take my wife to a hospital appointment that we got the day before we had to go on holiday the quick way back

Better in opposite direction, Beautiful

That used to be my route to work, never tired of it

Sometimes it takes an "outsider" to remind us how beautiful and varied the country we are so fortunate to live in truly is and my sincere thanks for that.

Superb video guys, and in Jan- Feb too! You are very lucky with your weather, your pioneering spirit is helping obviously! 😮 Glad my country is proving a gift. Best wishes & take care ✌️

No kind of pun intended but that sky is heavenly.

Try the Hardknott Pass in the Lake District but it is very narrow with hairpin bends so only for the brave.

Trees are scarce above about 1500 feet in the UK. Above 2,000 feet they only usually grow in very sheltered locations to modest heights. Obviously the further north you go the lower the height that trees thrive at our latitudes. Trees also will struggle because of the poor, waterlogged, acidic peat soil in places like the peak district. Another big reason that trees don't grow are those white, fluffy mowing machines called sheep which eat saplings before they get a chance to grow. Deer also do this where they are common, mostly red deer in upland areas. Unfortunately deer numbers are kept artificially high by the estates in Scotland and elsewhere by feeding them throughout the winter and sometimes all year round. This is to increase their revenue for commercial deer hunting/stalking. Finally, a lot of moorland is burnt in late summer to encourage regeneration of the heather as grouse favour the young heather shoots. This also burns young saplings and destroys a lot of other plants and also kills wildlife. Again, this is done for commercial reasons for the estates' grouse shooting businesses.

I've said it before but excuse me, I'll say it again. Rather impressed by Chriss driving skills in unfamiliar territory.

Well you are such a beautiful couple and it’s nice to see someone from another country appreciate the beauty of the U.K.

People just don’t realise how much beautiful open country side there is in the U.K.

it's good when new builds are in keeping with the village's rustic aesthetic

That is the first time I've heard the dark peak (the gritstone moorlands this journey took you through) compared to California. And you passed close to the site of USAF B29 which crashed on those hills in the late 1940s and still always has a stars and stripes flying in memory of those who lost their lives that winter morning in 1948.

Thanks for another lovely video. The Snake pass is well worth a drive in Spring as you mentioned. Please try to make it to the Hardknott Pass in the Lake District - you’ll really enjoy it!

If you'd been getting eroded and weathered for as long as the old volcanos you were driving around, bits of you would be falling off too. That's probably why it reminds you of Cali, similar geological process formed a lot of there. The nearby Lake district is an ancient super-volcano caldera and Hadrian built his wall along the edge of massive horizontal eruption between crust layers, the top layers got eroded away.

The USA and the UK comparison is a matter of sixmze: in UK, past and present meet at the end of the street.