You know what’s cool about America ? We have different neighborhoods with different nationalities and we get to eat different foods from different countries
Especially the larger Metro areas. I lived in Downey, CA and I could get the BEST of ANYTHING within 2-30 minutes max , meaning a town or district I think you call it, not a single shop.
@@56kwith200ping yeah man I’m Italian in queens ny and I love flushing ,its the biggest Chinatown in the USA the food is absolutely amazing and super cheap .. very authentic. We definitely got it good here
I once took my mom and dad on a road trip to visit my sister. We started in Northwest Arkansas and ended in San Simone, New Mexico. In the 2 days it took us to get there we hit every weather type you could imagine, i.e. Rain, Hail, Dust Storm, Snow, and mostly Sunny/Cloudy skies. Now that they are both gone, it's one of my most treasured memories. Love your episodes!!❤️
My wife and I live in Northwest Arkansas and have since 1999. One of the many things we love about living here is the fact that a two day road trip in any direction can find you pretty much anywhere you’d want to go in the US. This Summer we road tripped up to Duluth Minnesota and then further up to Lutsen. It’s a beautiful road trip and driving alongside Lake Superior is awe inspiring.
@@kevinbrown3075 I moved here in 1991, from the panhandle of Texas, but I came here every summer to visit my grandma, so NWA has been a part of my life for as long as I can remember... It sure is different now, from 32 years ago...lol 😋
Fall colors will be peaking early November, definitely taking I 49/Bobby Harper Tunnel from Fayetteville to Ft Smith just to see Ozark fall foliage!😁😁😁😁
I drive a big rig hauling beer all over the US. My life is a never ending road trip, and I get paid to do it. I do agree that our highway system has a ton of attractions, sights, sounds, and smells that make road trips so fun in the US. Each state has unique sunrises, sunsets, and amazing weather systems (storms) that are just amazing at times.
What we do well is bring others from all over the world with their unique cultures and mix them into the fabric of America to enhance our experiences! 🇺🇲❤🇺🇲❤🇺🇲
No we don't. We have traditionally forced them to assimilate. The melting pot metaphor where they are expected to meld with the existing crap in the pot and lose what makes them unique rather than the mixing pot where everything maintains its identity but still combines to make something better than the component parts. Creates toxic concepts like the model minority.
I like how when a person immigrates and they start a restaurant and serve an Americanized version due to ever tastes or lack of access to authentic ingredients. But lowly and surely they introduce us to the authentic as they start to source the original ingredients. And we like that typically just a much if not more.
As a native Iowan I know for a fact that you would be warmly welcomed anywhere in the American Heartland! We are always welcoming and generally always friendly! Mark in Iowa.
If you hit Iowa, you MUST hit Pella Iowa. Hit the bakeries on the town square and get some Dutch Letters. Yup, it's a very Dutch town. 1st weekend in May is always their Tulip festival. They have TONS!
Street names and numbers…we’ve lived mostly in two places during our marriage, both for 20 plus years. Street names were Sunscape and Sunset, both with two number addresses! And they are 100 miles apart! Crazy!
I love the fact that the U. S. has so many types of climate and ecological niches. You can go from a desert to a tropical forest and everything in between. The scenery is amazing,p! 10:25
Especially on Hawaii's Big Island, despite being largely tropical, it's huge and steeply mountainous enough to have 11 of this planet's 13 official climate zones - depending on your elevation.
I've lived in small Southern towns all my life and they do something that I don't see in cities as far as street names. A couple would buy land and build a house out in the country. They'd have kids who the parents gave some of the land to, and the kids build houses and live on the land behind Ma and Pa. Depending on how much land there is, this might go on for a couple of generations. The dirt roads that are formed with each house will eventually get a name for mail delivery and it usually ends up as the name of the first person who built a house there, so there are roads like Jesse Green Rd., Harald Smith Rd., etc. Driving out of town, I see a lot of roads like that.
My husband's family had a farm and gave each son land to build on. The street is not named after them, but there is a road close by with their name. This is in Eastern Pa.
Diners are the lifeblood of America. Cup of Coffee in Pensacola was amazing. It has been ran by the same family since 1945 with the same grill ( That is key grill keeps the flavor) and nickel bar stools. Plus the outside is all original with new paint but still stays Air-Conditioned on the outside which was a premium service down South in 1945 and was widely advertised. So look for those places!
Jolly did a reaction to a Detroit style pizza place in London! You should check it out! Being from Michigan, I am proud to see our pizza crossing the pond!
Road trips: From April 16 - June 5 this year (2023), we drove from Chicagoland to Houston (and back) for a family funeral: 2175 miles (3500 km) total. Then I rode with a friend to the National Ham Radio Convention in Xenia OH, to and back in one day: 668 miles (1075 km) total. Then we drove to Beaverton OR to visit our son, stopped off at the family farm in northern Missouri, then back home. That loop was about 4550 miles (7161 km) total. Road trips, back-to-back!
I can only speak for where I live in South Carolina but there's a place here called "Toni's Detroit Style Pizza" and it's awful. My wife and I both felt sick after eating it. It's not getting good representation outside of Detroit in my experience at least.
I really like Detroit style since it's lighter than it looks, however, I must concede to CT as the best pizza. Apizza - Sallys, Pepe, etc, are just a different style and crisp, light, and just the best in my opinion.
@@jeffobrien8329 Detroit-Style Pizza is a deep-dish, square cut pizza that's baked in a rectangle steel pan. The dough has a high hydration level, so it bakes bubbly and fluffy in the center, and crispy and golden on the edges where the cheese melts down.
@jeffobrien8329 it is a square pizze with a fluffy crust but the cheese carmelizes on the edges to a crunch. The channel Jolly just reacted to eating a couple of weeks ago. Was a good video.
@@jeffobrien8329Detroit style pizza has a thicker fluffy crust with a crunch to it on the edges because cheese flows over it and caramelizes. They goto a place on the Jolly channel that does Detroit style. You would get a much better idea of what it is by watching that video.
I grew up moving from state to state due to being in a military family, so I've had my share of road trips. There's something so comforting about the whole experience, listening to the same old CDs, playing "I Spy," stopping at some of the quirkiest little gas stations and motels, trying to guess at the different accents. Seeing all the beautiful landscapes, forests, rivers, and tiny little towns the backroads have to offer. I remember stopping to have picnics at the ruins of old Spanish forts in Texas when I was a kid. Just an endless list of things to see and experience, not to mention the things that give you a sense of the people that came before you. There is a hillside in the Red Hills of East Texas that are covered with thousands of daffodils every spring because my Great Grandmother liked them so much she spent decades planting them.
America does music well. We invented Jazz, Blues, Rock and Roll, Rock music, Soul, Country, Folk, Gospel, Disco, Motown, Hip-hop, Heavy metal, New Wave, Punk, Rap. Probably missing a couple ❤🇺🇸👊🏻👊🏻
The old Country and Western too. Like Kitty Wells, Hank Williams and the like. The kind of music my mom and her immediate family liked. I didn’t like it. I started liking it when it was Country music in the 1970s on. Patsy Cline, Tammy Wynette, B. J. Thomas, Conway Twiity, Marty Robbins, George Jones and many more of that time period on.
I think the British invented Punk, and Jazz and Blues came out of African slave culture. I think Europe invented New Wave. I think Hip Hop, Rap and Motown are really American. Country is too diverse but Bluegrass came out of Scots-Irish tradition.
@@moorek1967 Punk rock was invented in New York City in 1974. Jazz music was invented in New Orleans over a hundred years ago. Blues music was invented in the Deep South in the 1860s. The very first New Wave group was the talking heads and Blondie and was invented in New York City and London at the same time.
As someone who’s watched Lawrence’s videos for many years now, I have to applaud your choice of getting his perspective since he isn’t native either & therefore his take is fresh & authentic imo 👍 He’s also very funny 😊
We do have high speed rail. The Amtrak Acela train is a bullet train that goes up to 150mph. It's not as fast as the ones I was on in Japan (186mph) but still pretty fast. While they're not all bullet trains Amtrak covers most of the country.
My ex roommate from Rome loved American Pizza. He would order it about 3 times a week. At first, he acted like most Italians and complained about it, but once he ate some he was hooked.
Pizza in Italy is not the same. American G.I.'s in Italy during WW2 quickly realized it's potential and brought the concept home, where it was adapted, American style. The rest is history. The pizza that the world now loves is American style.
@@allanboyer2769I lived in Italy for 3 years. While I enjoyed it, I also can’t pass up pizza in the states. I’ve had the really thick kin$ that most associate with the place called UNO’s, I didn’t think I’d ever try thin. I did. Now I like many thin styled pizza. 🎉👍
Last weekend I took a little road trip from my home in Pennsylvania just across the border in Maryland. It was about 2.5 hours driving and all through farm country. I saw almost no cars on the road for most of it so it was a very relaxing drive.
I hope you guys have a wonderful time in America and hopefully you don’t have any issues that make you feel less about us most of us are good people. Can’t wait for your story’s about what you saw and did while here
I just found you guys and I have to say… this is a family channel done right! You all are so stinking adorable!!! I can’t take it!! I’m a new fan! Though food is expensive these days, I’d love to try sending you another America package! ✌🏻🇺🇸❤️
I’m taking a road trip tomorrow, and I love the open road too. Sam you’re correct. It’s not just pizza, it’s burgers and barbecue. I’m looking forward to seeing your lists.
I would also like to add the country fried steak and fried chicken here in the south are both top notch. Country fried steak topped with gravy especially, is just so damn good.
I've went to Kings Island a lot as a teen in Cincy. My best friend and I had summer passes. We would go in the middle of the week so there were no lines. Even the best roller coasters had no lines. I now live 2 miles from old Route 66 in NM.
America does food that is a blend or fusion of some 56 major and minor cultures which have come here. Many cultures took their native dishes and adapted them to locally cheap and available ingredients. I have some friends who were born in India. They just love Mexican restaurants because the spices are similar to home. How is that? Mexico got spices from Spain who in turn imported them from India many years ago. And of course we also added species native to the Americans (not found in Europe or Asia) like potatoes, tomatoes, corn (maize), peppers, vanilla, pineapple, blueberry, peanuts, maple syrup, and chocolate.
Watch the great movie Diner if you want to see what the great All American diner is all about. A gem of a movie set in Baltimore in the late 50s. Funny as hell.
Sports we do well here! I love the baseball, basketball and American football seasons. We have soccer season too! We have hockey, volleyball and so many other sports hence all the sports entrances in the Olympics!
Take a trip to see Lake Superior , world's largest fresh water lake , you can stand on the shore an when you look out toward the horizon , you will realize that lake goes OVER THE HORIZON .
There is a big difference between old US towns in the east from the 1600's and new towns created in the west in the 1890's. The newer ones have been planned and laid out with large amounts of land with very straight streets and thought out systems. Places like New England have winding odd, short, streets sometimes. Besides Presidents and trees (very true) common themes are Native American tribes and birds. There is an answer for Atlanta and the long numbers. In the places that are newer and highly planned, those numbers are unique for the whole town. It helps the post office so that even if all they have is number 10632, they already know the only street with numbers from 10600 to 10699.
5:36 King's Island Baby I Grew Up in Dayton, Ohio and every year Dad's Job would do a free King's Island Day with picnic and We Fell in-love with RollerCoasters!!!
You can watch Lost in the Pond's explanation of street numbers but they are number based on how far away from the city center (or some other point). For instance the 100 block is 1 mile from the center point, 200 block is 2 miles away. Or the numbers may start with 1000 for the 1 mile point. Depends on how many number might be needed on that block. Anyway it's not just start at 1 and go up.
Yes, you should do positives, negatives, unusual things, what you expected vs. what you experienced, best and worst food you tried, driving positives/negatives, etc. Hope you are having fun!
Road trips are the BEST. I've been in all but 6 states and every time I do one, I discover something new. To me, diners go hand in hand with road trips. I was lost on the backroads in W. Virginia and stumbled across a little diner run by an Italian woman who cooked only Italian food and could barely speak English. It had all of 5 or 6 tables in it and looked like a shack from the outside. The menu, all 5 items, was written on the wall in chalk. I had stopped to ask directions and ended up eating the BEST Italian food I've ever had in my life! I learned that a large amount of Italian immigrants settled in W. Virginia. That's the part of America I love. This little place was an absolute gem; I went back several times.
I thought for sure I saw Atlanta and Nadine at the supermarket last week. I was about to ask Atlanta what she’d be cooking next, but alas, it wasn’t y’all. Lol
As another Michigander, I agree with Road trips in what they call fly over country. You can find some interesting things, odd things, and beautiful things. I hope at some point you can go to a Pow Wow and learn about the American Indian traditions and see their crafts.
If you can meet a family in or near Michigan and go to one of their family dinner's that is something very American that most families enjoy weekly or bi- weekly
Yes to Road Trips! My favorite memory is a 2 week road trip through Colorado, Utah and Arizona with my best friend. We hiked from North Rim to South rim of the Grand Canyon and visited 9 National Parks on this trip! It will forever be my favorite memory!
Having visited many, many places around the world, the best laid out streets are in McAllen, Texas. All streets go north/south or east/west. East/west are alphabetical by groups; trees, flowers, cities, etc. North/south streets are numerical. It's very hard to get lost there.
Hi, I'm a USA. girl from Kansas, we don't have a WIZARD OF OZ. park. No Toto, Dorthy or Scarecrow. But anywhere in other states we are always asked about a YELLOW BRICK RD. The closest would be a Dog park, where they get to run all over the place. The dogs also have a swimming lake at all the Dog parks too. LOVE YOU GUYS!!!
In many US cities the addresses are broken down by intersection. So letter named streets run one way and numbered streets perpendicular to them. Between first street and second street (or A and Bst) address numbers go from 100 to 199. Between second and Third street (or B st and C st) the numbers are from 200 to 299. That pattern continues incrementing the numbers by 100 for each major intersection. It is handy for knowing how many blocks you need to continue driving rather that constantly checking numbers. It becomes a fair bit easier to anticipate things like 601 Third street will probably be on the left hand corner of 3rd and F street (just past F) as you approach from the intersection of 3rd and E st. However, in the New England cities all such bets are off. Lol!
Here in Chicago, we do have the center of the city which is State street and Madison street. It's 0 North, 0 West. And that's where the single digits start in every direction. East doesn't go far because of the lake which stops human life and the aquatic life begins.
Your family is so very precious!!! I just came across your videos, and I am starting from the beginning and watching them! #somanylaughs #loveyouguys 😍
The next time you go to the USA, put the Wisconsin Dells on the list. It has so many attractions, amusement parks, water parks, and other entertainment that I don't think one can get it done in two weeks!
I had a relative in Kansas that got very wealthy from real estate and oil exploration. He built a lake - dammed up an area and a lake was formed - and put two houses on it. His house was designed by Buckminster Fuller and was the "Dymaxion House" and the other house was for my grandparents and sat on stilts over the water, you had to cross a footbridge to get to the front door! In my grandparents house, there was a small panel in the floor by the fireplace. You could pull out the panel and go fishing while sitting in the living room in front of a nice warm fire! We spent a lot of time at the Dymaxion House playing; my relative would hit golf balls off of a deck on the back of the house and would pay us $0.05 / ball to retrieve them from the field. He also had a floating trampoline that we would bounce on and do tricks and land in the water - it was awesome. The point is, however, that my relative named the road leading to the houses "Easy Street" and his house number changed every year to be the year. So,, in 1969, his address was 1969 Easy Street, then 1970 Easy Street, etc. I used to do road trips every year, now in my "old age" I don't do the long drives too often and really miss them. We would drive from Kansas to the West Coast, Canada, or to New England, Washington D.C. when I was a kid. In college we would drive from Dallas to Boston or New York to visit friends or family or to Colorado to go skiing. Driving down the open road was awesome and much better than taking a plane, train, or bus as you could stop to see things on a whim with nobody stopping you. The biggest frying pan in the world, the biggest ball of twine, a small state park with unusual features, a cool looking roadside diner, etc. Half of the fun of taking trips was getting there rather than being at the destination (which wasn't too bad either).
Lawrence has another video in which he explains why US addresses are four digits. Each city has a center point and the first number in your address indicates how many miles you are away from that center point.
America does professional sports like no other place. We have everything and the football, baseball, basketball season overlap. Just when you start to get burnt out on one sport another is starting. Sports are big here! Thousands of golf courses, fresh water and salt water fishing, tennis courts, you name it. There is always some kind of sport going on at all times. Like he said the shear size of the US and the variety of ecosystems and scenery provides something for everyone. The downside, is everything is so far away! If I want to go on a road trip from Texas to South Dakota is a 2.5 days/2 nights on the road drive. Heck it is a longer drive across Texas from East to West than it is to from New York to Chicago. Everything is big (and far apart) in Texas!
Diners always have such a nice community warmth depending on where you are, my little Texas town has a cafe/diner and everyone goes there and has a laugh with everyone else there. Not great for my introverted self but its such a nice community feeling you come out of your shell rather fast🤭
fun fact... House addresses in most places are organized by block... so one block of houses will be the 100 block and the next block will be the 200... so the highest address on the 100 block may be 137 Maple Street, but it will start over at 201 when you cross to the next block.
Our trains called Amtrak and it goes across the country but sometimes you must switch trains. There are sleeper cars that you can purchase for your stay so as to not always be sitting. Sleeper cars also get first Call for the dining car.
Speaking of streets and addresses.....no one does addresses better than the state of Utah. I lived in Salt Lake City for 4 years, and it was virtually impossible to get lost there. All the major streets were named by their relationship to the LDS temple located in the center of the original city. The first street south of the temple is 100 South Street. The first street west is 100 West Street. The first street east is 100 East Street... The second street east is 200 East Street.....and so on. Each address on the streets is an exact geo location as to the relation to the temple. For example I lived at 1022 South and 1200 East Street (yes the address in indeed the whole thing). I lived 10.22 blocks due south of the temple, and 12 blocks east of the temple. You always knew where you were no matter where you live.
If you grew up in Chicago, you know that the deep dish stuff is something that tourists MUST have, but Chicago tavern style (cut into squares) is what most people eat. It's great!
The length of our addresses has to do with the number of land parcels on the road, so if the road is long and doesn't change names, you have a lot of parcels.
Born and raised in Grand Rapids, Michigan and I can say that Detroit deep dish pizza is my favorite and you can't get an accurate one outside of Detroit. I have lived in more states with awful pizza than good ones! I hate soggy crust! Thank you for sharing your opinions and laughter with us and the world My NZ Family! 😂 Love from Oklahoma, USA! Stay safe in your travels! 😎👍
I'm retired, but I lived and worked across the states, lived in 13 states, and have visited about 40 of them. There is nothing like it. So much I had never heard of. Enjoy your adventure, but always be careful and have emergency materials and info with you.
When you’ve recuperated from your current trip, and start planning your next one, a road trip along Route 66 (from Chicago to California) will give you a great close-up of the country and some great “off the beaten path”, quirky, things to see. Can’t wait to hear your impressions of America from this time around!
I miss the road trips on our Harley’s from New York to California and back. Those were great times jumping on Route 66 as soon as we could and taking it all the way to Cali.
The national park around 6:40, shown in Alaska is Wrangell-St. Elias, and is #3 in size in the world, after NE Greenland (#1), and Tassili 'n Ajjer in Algeria. It's 1.29 the size of Netherlands, or 6 Yellowstones. Only 63 national parks exist here at present, but in the national park service, there are 400+ properties--monuments, historic sites, battlefields, memorials, etc.
I’m very blessed to have grown up with wanderlust parents, in California. I’ve been all over and have seen many national parks. Cali has 9! So I’m very fortunate to have been to most, and to have also gone to The Grand Tetons, Zion, Yellowstone, Glacier Nat’l, and up into Canada. My parents took us across country when I was just 2, and we went all the way to Niagara Falls. I know Americans get flack for not traveling internationally as much as other countries citizens, but there’s just so much to see right in our own backyard, that most don’t even see all of our own country, in one lifetime.
Cultured American foodies know that the best restaurants and groceries are family operated mom and pop shops, often generations old, with recipes coming from or inspired by their country of origin.
there's nothing in the world as fun as a road trip to a place you've never been before. or taking a different route to one you have. when i visit family ive always taken I-44 to I-70 to eastern Indiana because it was the fastest way. the last time i went i took I-40 all the way to Memphis, stayed the night on Beale street and heard some of the best live blues ive ever heard. when i went out west to go surfing a few years ago for one last time before my knees got too bad, instead of I-40 the whole way because its fast, i stayed on route 66... and there's nothing like route 66 in a jeep with the top down. nothing. the stars up around flagstaff in the cocnino forest... i lived in england for 3 years when i was a kid. castles are really cool. they are. i saw a bunch of em... but standing on the lip of the south rim of the grand canyon and looking out at that incredible thing is an experience i will never forget.
I’ve always wondered why we didn’t do more transportation by railways. It’s a very cool way to travel and would cut down on emissions. Great video guys!
If you look at the comments in Laurence's video you'll see a number of explanations regarding the road numbers, which are actually connected to the town/city/area as well as to the road itself. The numbers reference how far the location is from the center point and where the location fits in the block. For example, my address is 4624, which is 4.6 miles from the river and the 24th number for the block. For reference, my next door neighbors' address is 4620. Most locations are identified similarly, though some places (i.e. Washington D.C.) add the direction (SE for Southeast, NW for Northwest, etc.).
I loved going to Diners when I was younger, especially when my sister and I hitchhiked across the U.S. from western N.Y. to California in 1973. That was a lot of fun! We were lucky because we didn’t have any trouble with anyone while traveling that way.
That was amazing to hitchhike across the United States. I and a friend in 1978 took a Greyhound bus to New Mexico from Philadelphia and backpacked New Mexico and Arizona and the Grand Canyon. I was 17 years old.
@@jeffhampton2767 … Yeah, it’s more fun when you’re young to travel like that. I was 20 and I told my sister I wanted to do something different for my birthday. So, on that day in 1973, we hitchhiked to California from western N .Y. Enjoyed that a whole lot.
@@dianefiske-foy4717 That's pretty amazing. You were Brave. I'm glad I traveled a lot before the age of 50 because now that I'm in my 60s I have health issues, and could never do all that traveling. It's amazing what you can do when you're young. We carried 30-lb backpacks through the desert in the hot sun with blisters on our shoulders and it didn't even bother us. We stayed on Indian reservations and got in strangers pickup trucks. We were afraid of nothing. 🤔
@@jeffhampton2767 … Sounds amazing. I was in the U. S. Army too, for a short time. I’m 70 now and no longer even able to leave the house much. It’d be nice to be able to return to those early times. But it never could happen, except through reminiscing.
@@dianefiske-foy4717 At least we have great memories. Now we travel through younger people on RUclips. I used to walk for miles on beaches and hike for miles. Now I can only walk a short distance with a cane. I guess I wore my body out. I wish I could go back to the 60s, 70's and 80's. I believe we grew up in the best time in history. And we were very lucky. Because this world we live in now sucks for the most part. 🤔😂😂❤🍹🌹
Well, we don't have high-speed trains, but we have Amtrak. It has great routes crossing the entire country and beautiful sights while at it! It's great!
America is the most amazing country in the world. We have every climate, terrain, weather, food, people etc etc etc all around us. Everything here within our fifty states. I love my country.
When i go on road trips i find it fun to write down all of the different license plates that i see. It’s a fun game to keep you occupied. Also the alphabet sign game
Cool list, I live near one of the theme parks he mentioned. I live near holiday world in Santa Claus Indiana. It does exist, their post office gets thousands of Santa letters each year and they have volunteers that read them and respond to the kids.
I did the full Route 66 road trip from Chicago to Santa Monica in 2021. Incredible what you find driving it like Winslow Arizona or Uranus Missouri. Sad also with what is disappearing on the route due to age. You need to see it before it is gone.
The Mrs and I love love love going on road trips. Alot of weekends we will just go on a day trip here in Ohio (sometimes stay overnight at a random motel) and stop at many diners on the way!
So as a native Texan and from the Fort Worth area we do actually have trains, we have the TRE (Trinity Railway Express) and the Amtrak which is a national railway, It operates inter-city rail service in 46 of the 48 contiguous U.S. states and three Canadian provinces. i love going on the TRE because one you get a day pass for like 5 bucks i think which isnt too bad and that pass allow you access to the busses and the trains minus the Amtrak. Going from Downtown Fort Worth to Dallas is pretty simple with the TRE especially if its Comic Con time and you dont wanna drive while in full costume lol.
Here in Oregon, they have an unusual, and I think very clever, way of numbering rural roads. They start at zero where the road begins (like taking off from a highway), then number the houses based on how many miles they are from the starting point. My number is 7611, so I'm seven point six miles away from Hwy 101!
My last apartment number address was 24 and my current is 10796. I don live in a large metro. There is a lot of art around in parks and near government and other buildings. There are also a lot of great museums too!
It's a huge country and music is extremely diverse here. I'm sure you've heard of hip hop, rap, rock, punk, country - but we also have other styles of music unique to the United States. Bluegrass, for example - check out Billy Strings playing "Dust in a Baggie" when he was young, sitting on a couch. Dialects are extremely diverse here and you can hear an example in how he sings/speaks. If you have time, there are a lot of small places in the cities that have live music. The country is just so massive with such a huge population you could be here for years and continually discover new things/interests. There will be culture shock for sure when you visit.
I live at house number 14 in a suburb of St. Louis---but that is really unusual. When I lived in a suburb of Los Angeles, our house was number 20406, because it was probably fifteen miles from where the numbers started. St. Louis style pizza is cracker-thin and has a special kind of gooey cheese that isn't found anywhere else. We cut it into squares instead of wedges.
Explaining address numbering system. The last 2 digits refer to the house number xxx12. The preceding numbers refer to the block number from the center of town 123xx. Even numbers are one side of the street, odd numbers the other side
When they talked about horse and buggy I immediately thought about Mackinac Island. Lancaster, PA is kinda neat too in Amish land with their family style restaurants and awesome Amish country stores.
The American rail system is vastly underrated, mostly by people who've never used it. You can, in fact, circumnavigate either the US itself or the entire continent of North America (or at least the Canadian/US portion) via passenger rail. There are 3 routes from Chicago to the West Coast (terminating in Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles) and several routes from Chicago to the East Coast.. There are also multiple routes from Boston to Florida via New York and Washington. Prior to Hurricane Katrina, there was transcontinental service from Los Angeles to Miami via New Orleans and railman's are working hard to get this restored (it still goes from LA to New Orleans and may soon go as far east as Mobile, AL but the final segment to Florida remains a goal). There are also storied north-south routes besides the Boston-Florida service such as New Orleans to Chicago and Los Angeles to Seattle. As if now, none of this is "high speed" although the east coast Acela is "high speed lite", and other than the Acela, it all shares the rails with freight lines so there are frustrating delays and you are at the mercy of the freight line dispatchers. But still these trains connect most American cities and lost of small towns and vast swaths of great scenery from ocean to ocean and border to border. By the way, if you do want to circumnavigate the continent, the route is Los Angeles to Seattle to Vancouver to Toronto to New York to Florida then, because the Mobile-FL leg is still missing, Florida back to Washington to Chicago to Los Angeles (or Chicago to New Orleans to Los Angeles).
Our streets aren't actually THAT long. For instance, my house is the first (or last depending on if you come down our street) and the number is 103. The last house at the top of the hill is 606 but there are not even 50 actual homes on the street and the street is barely a mile long. The street it divided into "blocks" and house numbers within the defined area will start with that block number.
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You know what’s cool about America ? We have different neighborhoods with different nationalities and we get to eat different foods from different countries
Especially the larger Metro areas. I lived in Downey, CA and I could get the BEST of ANYTHING within 2-30 minutes max , meaning a town or district I think you call it, not a single shop.
@@56kwith200ping yeah man I’m Italian in queens ny and I love flushing ,its the biggest Chinatown in the USA the food is absolutely amazing and super cheap .. very authentic. We definitely got it good here
Sometimes along the same street.
@@Rockhound6165 yes you can call one block the United Nations 😂😂Chinese Jamaican West Indian Italian on one block literally
@@Vinnytint2 yo Vinny, this is Frankie from Jersey. 🇮🇹🇺🇸😃
I once took my mom and dad on a road trip to visit my sister. We started in Northwest Arkansas and ended in San Simone, New Mexico. In the 2 days it took us to get there we hit every weather type you could imagine, i.e. Rain, Hail, Dust Storm, Snow, and mostly Sunny/Cloudy skies. Now that they are both gone, it's one of my most treasured memories. Love your episodes!!❤️
My wife and I live in Northwest Arkansas and have since 1999. One of the many things we love about living here is the fact that a two day road trip in any direction can find you pretty much anywhere you’d want to go in the US. This Summer we road tripped up to Duluth Minnesota and then further up to Lutsen. It’s a beautiful road trip and driving alongside Lake Superior is awe inspiring.
@@kevinbrown3075 I moved here in 1991, from the panhandle of Texas, but I came here every summer to visit my grandma, so NWA has been a part of my life for as long as I can remember... It sure is different now, from 32 years ago...lol 😋
Fayetteville, AR in the house! What was your point of origin?
Fall colors will be peaking early November, definitely taking I 49/Bobby Harper Tunnel from Fayetteville to Ft Smith just to see Ozark fall foliage!😁😁😁😁
@@usafvet100Springdale here...lol. But I've lived in Fayetteville at one time....
I drive a big rig hauling beer all over the US. My life is a never ending road trip, and I get paid to do it. I do agree that our highway system has a ton of attractions, sights, sounds, and smells that make road trips so fun in the US. Each state has unique sunrises, sunsets, and amazing weather systems (storms) that are just amazing at times.
Keep on trucking driver... Safe travels!
I am so impatient (remarkably over-psyched) for YNZF to get home safe and tell us all about their trip. ✈
I second that ❤
What we do well is bring others from all over the world with their unique cultures and mix them into the fabric of America to enhance our experiences!
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No we don't. We have traditionally forced them to assimilate. The melting pot metaphor where they are expected to meld with the existing crap in the pot and lose what makes them unique rather than the mixing pot where everything maintains its identity but still combines to make something better than the component parts. Creates toxic concepts like the model minority.
That's the great American experiment, for sure. I'm not sure we can say we do it well, but we definitely try.
I like how when a person immigrates and they start a restaurant and serve an Americanized version due to ever tastes or lack of access to authentic ingredients. But lowly and surely they introduce us to the authentic as they start to source the original ingredients. And we like that typically just a much if not more.
As a native Iowan I know for a fact that you would be warmly welcomed anywhere in the American Heartland! We are always welcoming and generally always friendly! Mark in Iowa.
If you hit Iowa, you MUST hit Pella Iowa. Hit the bakeries on the town square and get some Dutch Letters. Yup, it's a very Dutch town. 1st weekend in May is always their Tulip festival. They have TONS!
This is a fact NZF. I have never been so loved and at home than when I spent a few days in Iowa. Warm hugs to all of you there in the middle.
Street names and numbers…we’ve lived mostly in two places during our marriage, both for 20 plus years. Street names were Sunscape and Sunset, both with two number addresses! And they are 100 miles apart! Crazy!
@@lapetitemaison4219 Or the Amana colonies as well! It's like a time machine.
I hope you get to visit small towns/ rural areas on your American tour. The cities are great, but I think you would love our small towns!
Yes. You haven't really experienced America until you've been to small towns AND big cities.
I'd suggest the channel "Joe and Nic's Road Trip". They do a lot of videos travelling to little, out of the way towns all over the US.
I love the fact that the U. S. has so many types of climate and ecological niches. You can go from a desert to a tropical forest and everything in between. The scenery is amazing,p! 10:25
Especially on Hawaii's Big Island, despite being largely tropical, it's huge and steeply mountainous enough to have 11 of this planet's 13 official climate zones - depending on your elevation.
I've lived in small Southern towns all my life and they do something that I don't see in cities as far as street names. A couple would buy land and build a house out in the country. They'd have kids who the parents gave some of the land to, and the kids build houses and live on the land behind Ma and Pa. Depending on how much land there is, this might go on for a couple of generations. The dirt roads that are formed with each house will eventually get a name for mail delivery and it usually ends up as the name of the first person who built a house there, so there are roads like Jesse Green Rd., Harald Smith Rd., etc. Driving out of town, I see a lot of roads like that.
Yes. Lots of roads named after churches & old businesses in my small Southern community, too!
Yes, that's very common in my neck of the woods in the south too.
My husband's family had a farm and gave each son land to build on. The street is not named after them, but there is a road close by with their name. This is in Eastern Pa.
Diners are the lifeblood of America. Cup of Coffee in Pensacola was amazing. It has been ran by the same family since 1945 with the same grill ( That is key grill keeps the flavor) and nickel bar stools. Plus the outside is all original with new paint but still stays Air-Conditioned on the outside which was a premium service down South in 1945 and was widely advertised. So look for those places!
Jolly did a reaction to a Detroit style pizza place in London! You should check it out! Being from Michigan, I am proud to see our pizza crossing the pond!
Yeah, I like watching the Jolly channel.
I just saw that episode yesterday.
Road trips: From April 16 - June 5 this year (2023), we drove from Chicagoland to Houston (and back) for a family funeral: 2175 miles (3500 km) total. Then I rode with a friend to the National Ham Radio Convention in Xenia OH, to and back in one day: 668 miles (1075 km) total. Then we drove to Beaverton OR to visit our son, stopped off at the family farm in northern Missouri, then back home. That loop was about 4550 miles (7161 km) total. Road trips, back-to-back!
I AM SOOO EXCITED TO SEE ALL OF YOUR POST VACATION CONTENT!! CAN'T WAIT!!
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As a Michigander, i'm glad to see Detroit style pizza mentioned. It's tragically underrepresented in the great US pizza debate 😊
I can only speak for where I live in South Carolina but there's a place here called "Toni's Detroit Style Pizza" and it's awful. My wife and I both felt sick after eating it. It's not getting good representation outside of Detroit in my experience at least.
I really like Detroit style since it's lighter than it looks, however, I must concede to CT as the best pizza. Apizza - Sallys, Pepe, etc, are just a different style and crisp, light, and just the best in my opinion.
@@jeffobrien8329 Detroit-Style Pizza is a deep-dish, square cut pizza that's baked in a rectangle steel pan. The dough has a high hydration level, so it bakes bubbly and fluffy in the center, and crispy and golden on the edges where the cheese melts down.
@jeffobrien8329 it is a square pizze with a fluffy crust but the cheese carmelizes on the edges to a crunch. The channel Jolly just reacted to eating a couple of weeks ago. Was a good video.
@@jeffobrien8329Detroit style pizza has a thicker fluffy crust with a crunch to it on the edges because cheese flows over it and caramelizes. They goto a place on the Jolly channel that does Detroit style. You would get a much better idea of what it is by watching that video.
Many Americans also love to go to church on Sunday mornings! ( often followed by a trip to a local Diner)
I love that 2 of my favorite RUclipsrs are converging!😁❤️
I grew up moving from state to state due to being in a military family, so I've had my share of road trips. There's something so comforting about the whole experience, listening to the same old CDs, playing "I Spy," stopping at some of the quirkiest little gas stations and motels, trying to guess at the different accents. Seeing all the beautiful landscapes, forests, rivers, and tiny little towns the backroads have to offer. I remember stopping to have picnics at the ruins of old Spanish forts in Texas when I was a kid. Just an endless list of things to see and experience, not to mention the things that give you a sense of the people that came before you. There is a hillside in the Red Hills of East Texas that are covered with thousands of daffodils every spring because my Great Grandmother liked them so much she spent decades planting them.
America does music well. We invented Jazz, Blues, Rock and Roll, Rock music, Soul, Country, Folk, Gospel, Disco, Motown, Hip-hop, Heavy metal, New Wave, Punk, Rap. Probably missing a couple ❤🇺🇸👊🏻👊🏻
Spot on, except gotta give the Brits credit for inventing Heavy Metal music.
Grunge...Bluegrass...Little bit of everything here!
The old Country and Western too. Like Kitty Wells, Hank Williams and the like. The kind of music my mom and her immediate family liked. I didn’t like it. I started liking it when it was Country music in the 1970s on. Patsy Cline, Tammy Wynette, B. J. Thomas, Conway Twiity, Marty Robbins, George Jones and many more of that time period on.
I think the British invented Punk, and Jazz and Blues came out of African slave culture. I think Europe invented New Wave. I think Hip Hop, Rap and Motown are really American. Country is too diverse but Bluegrass came out of Scots-Irish tradition.
@@moorek1967 Punk rock was invented in New York City in 1974. Jazz music was invented in New Orleans over a hundred years ago. Blues music was invented in the Deep South in the 1860s. The very first New Wave group was the talking heads and Blondie and was invented in New York City and London at the same time.
You guys are good example of why the internet made our world bigger and better ❤
Well said sir.
As someone who’s watched Lawrence’s videos for many years now, I have to applaud your choice of getting his perspective since he isn’t native either & therefore his take is fresh & authentic imo 👍 He’s also very funny 😊
We do have high speed rail. The Amtrak Acela train is a bullet train that goes up to 150mph. It's not as fast as the ones I was on in Japan (186mph) but still pretty fast. While they're not all bullet trains Amtrak covers most of the country.
That guy is funny. Nothing beats a good road trip with your music up loud, Sun Roof open…and clear roads ahead.
Very much looking forward to your videos about your trip... Enjoy!
My ex roommate from Rome loved American Pizza. He would order it about 3 times a week. At first, he acted like most Italians and complained about it, but once he ate some he was hooked.
Pizza in Italy is not the same. American G.I.'s in Italy during WW2 quickly realized it's potential and brought the concept home, where it was adapted, American style. The rest is history. The pizza that the world now loves is American style.
@@allanboyer2769I lived in Italy for 3 years. While I enjoyed it, I also can’t pass up pizza in the states. I’ve had the really thick kin$ that most associate with the place called UNO’s, I didn’t think I’d ever try thin. I did. Now I like many thin styled pizza. 🎉👍
@@allanboyer2769Pizza was brought to the US in the late 1800s, not after WW2.
Last weekend I took a little road trip from my home in Pennsylvania just across the border in Maryland. It was about 2.5 hours driving and all through farm country. I saw almost no cars on the road for most of it so it was a very relaxing drive.
I hope you guys have a wonderful time in America and hopefully you don’t have any issues that make you feel less about us most of us are good people. Can’t wait for your story’s about what you saw and did while here
I just found you guys and I have to say… this is a family channel done right! You all are so stinking adorable!!! I can’t take it!! I’m a new fan! Though food is expensive these days, I’d love to try sending you another America package! ✌🏻🇺🇸❤️
I’m taking a road trip tomorrow, and I love the open road too. Sam you’re correct. It’s not just pizza, it’s burgers and barbecue.
I’m looking forward to seeing your lists.
I would also like to add the country fried steak and fried chicken here in the south are both top notch. Country fried steak topped with gravy especially, is just so damn good.
I've went to Kings Island a lot as a teen in Cincy. My best friend and I had summer passes. We would go in the middle of the week so there were no lines. Even the best roller coasters had no lines.
I now live 2 miles from old Route 66 in NM.
America does food that is a blend or fusion of some 56 major and minor cultures which have come here. Many cultures took their native dishes and adapted them to locally cheap and available ingredients. I have some friends who were born in India. They just love Mexican restaurants because the spices are similar to home. How is that? Mexico got spices from Spain who in turn imported them from India many years ago. And of course we also added species native to the Americans (not found in Europe or Asia) like potatoes, tomatoes, corn (maize), peppers, vanilla, pineapple, blueberry, peanuts, maple syrup, and chocolate.
Watch the great movie Diner if you want to see what the great All American diner is all about. A gem of a movie set in Baltimore in the late 50s. Funny as hell.
All good on his list. Certainly you could string them together. Roadtrip to parks, theme parks and cozy diners on the way.
Sports we do well here! I love the baseball, basketball and American football seasons. We have soccer season too! We have hockey, volleyball and so many other sports hence all the sports entrances in the Olympics!
Take a trip to see Lake Superior , world's largest fresh water lake , you can stand on the shore an when you look out toward the horizon , you will realize that lake goes OVER THE HORIZON .
I love that old 50's diner atmosphere. You should go on a Dells Army ducks tour. It's fun and you see interesting geography.
There is a big difference between old US towns in the east from the 1600's and new towns created in the west in the 1890's. The newer ones have been planned and laid out with large amounts of land with very straight streets and thought out systems. Places like New England have winding odd, short, streets sometimes. Besides Presidents and trees (very true) common themes are Native American tribes and birds.
There is an answer for Atlanta and the long numbers. In the places that are newer and highly planned, those numbers are unique for the whole town. It helps the post office so that even if all they have is number 10632, they already know the only street with numbers from 10600 to 10699.
5:36 King's Island Baby I Grew Up in Dayton, Ohio and every year Dad's Job would do a free King's Island Day with picnic and We Fell in-love with RollerCoasters!!!
You can watch Lost in the Pond's explanation of street numbers but they are number based on how far away from the city center (or some other point). For instance the 100 block is 1 mile from the center point, 200 block is 2 miles away. Or the numbers may start with 1000 for the 1 mile point. Depends on how many number might be needed on that block.
Anyway it's not just start at 1 and go up.
Yes, you should do positives, negatives, unusual things, what you expected vs. what you experienced, best and worst food you tried, driving positives/negatives, etc. Hope you are having fun!
Road trips are the BEST. I've been in all but 6 states and every time I do one, I discover something new. To me, diners go hand in hand with road trips. I was lost on the backroads in W. Virginia and stumbled across a little diner run by an Italian woman who cooked only Italian food and could barely speak English.
It had all of 5 or 6 tables in it and looked like a shack from the outside. The menu, all 5 items, was written on the wall in chalk. I had stopped to ask directions and ended up eating the BEST Italian food I've ever had in my life! I learned that a large amount of Italian immigrants settled in W. Virginia.
That's the part of America I love. This little place was an absolute gem; I went back several times.
I thought for sure I saw Atlanta and Nadine at the supermarket last week. I was about to ask Atlanta what she’d be cooking next, but alas, it wasn’t y’all. Lol
As another Michigander, I agree with Road trips in what they call fly over country. You can find some interesting things, odd things, and beautiful things. I hope at some point you can go to a Pow Wow and learn about the American Indian traditions and see their crafts.
If you want to see the country, take to the surface roads and stay off the interstates. Use your GPS and go explore.
We do sports and military stuff well, too. 😀
8:45 . Exactly 👍🏼 . Southern home cooked food is the best. And yeah road trips are awesome here. Much respect and love you guys. 🇺🇲🙌🏼
If you can meet a family in or near Michigan and go to one of their family dinner's that is something very American that most families enjoy weekly or bi- weekly
Yes to Road Trips! My favorite memory is a 2 week road trip through Colorado, Utah and Arizona with my best friend. We hiked from North Rim to South rim of the Grand Canyon and visited 9 National Parks on this trip! It will forever be my favorite memory!
Having visited many, many places around the world, the best laid out streets are in McAllen, Texas. All streets go north/south or east/west. East/west are alphabetical by groups; trees, flowers, cities, etc. North/south streets are numerical. It's very hard to get lost there.
We live just outside McAllen and do most of our shopping there. It's a great place to visit in the Rio Grande Valley TX.
Hi, I'm a USA. girl from Kansas, we don't have a WIZARD OF OZ. park. No Toto, Dorthy or Scarecrow. But anywhere in other states we are always asked about a YELLOW BRICK RD. The closest would be a Dog park, where they get to run all over the place. The dogs also have a swimming lake at all the Dog parks too. LOVE YOU GUYS!!!
That’s a great idea for a small theme park for the state of Kansas, for sure I will visit Wizard of OZ Park.
I lived in Kansas when I was six and there was a house, yellow brick road, etc and they sold Wizard of Oz items inside
MTV even came there and filmed
In many US cities the addresses are broken down by intersection. So letter named streets run one way and numbered streets perpendicular to them. Between first street and second street (or A and Bst) address numbers go from 100 to 199. Between second and Third street (or B st and C st) the numbers are from 200 to 299. That pattern continues incrementing the numbers by 100 for each major intersection. It is handy for knowing how many blocks you need to continue driving rather that constantly checking numbers. It becomes a fair bit easier to anticipate things like 601 Third street will probably be on the left hand corner of 3rd and F street (just past F) as you approach from the intersection of 3rd and E st. However, in the New England cities all such bets are off. Lol!
Here in Chicago, we do have the center of the city which is State street and Madison street. It's 0 North, 0 West. And that's where the single digits start in every direction. East doesn't go far because of the lake which stops human life and the aquatic life begins.
Cool video warm gettings from Germany
Your family is so very precious!!! I just came across your videos, and I am starting from the beginning and watching them! #somanylaughs #loveyouguys 😍
The next time you go to the USA, put the Wisconsin Dells on the list. It has so many attractions, amusement parks, water parks, and other entertainment that I don't think one can get it done in two weeks!
I had a relative in Kansas that got very wealthy from real estate and oil exploration. He built a lake - dammed up an area and a lake was formed - and put two houses on it. His house was designed by Buckminster Fuller and was the "Dymaxion House" and the other house was for my grandparents and sat on stilts over the water, you had to cross a footbridge to get to the front door! In my grandparents house, there was a small panel in the floor by the fireplace. You could pull out the panel and go fishing while sitting in the living room in front of a nice warm fire! We spent a lot of time at the Dymaxion House playing; my relative would hit golf balls off of a deck on the back of the house and would pay us $0.05 / ball to retrieve them from the field. He also had a floating trampoline that we would bounce on and do tricks and land in the water - it was awesome.
The point is, however, that my relative named the road leading to the houses "Easy Street" and his house number changed every year to be the year. So,, in 1969, his address was 1969 Easy Street, then 1970 Easy Street, etc.
I used to do road trips every year, now in my "old age" I don't do the long drives too often and really miss them. We would drive from Kansas to the West Coast, Canada, or to New England, Washington D.C. when I was a kid. In college we would drive from Dallas to Boston or New York to visit friends or family or to Colorado to go skiing. Driving down the open road was awesome and much better than taking a plane, train, or bus as you could stop to see things on a whim with nobody stopping you. The biggest frying pan in the world, the biggest ball of twine, a small state park with unusual features, a cool looking roadside diner, etc. Half of the fun of taking trips was getting there rather than being at the destination (which wasn't too bad either).
There are rail trips that go cross country…look up Amtrak & check out their choices. At least one goes almost across the whole country!
As a Wisconsinite I wholeheartedly agree with his list! America is pretty great. I hope you guys get to explore it when you are here. Enjoy! ❤
Lawrence has another video in which he explains why US addresses are four digits. Each city has a center point and the first number in your address indicates how many miles you are away from that center point.
America does professional sports like no other place. We have everything and the football, baseball, basketball season overlap. Just when you start to get burnt out on one sport another is starting. Sports are big here! Thousands of golf courses, fresh water and salt water fishing, tennis courts, you name it. There is always some kind of sport going on at all times. Like he said the shear size of the US and the variety of ecosystems and scenery provides something for everyone. The downside, is everything is so far away! If I want to go on a road trip from Texas to South Dakota is a 2.5 days/2 nights on the road drive. Heck it is a longer drive across Texas from East to West than it is to from New York to Chicago. Everything is big (and far apart) in Texas!
Just gotta say as a man born in raised in Phoenix AZ it’s crazy to see that shirt has made it all that way to NZ. Always enjoy your video’s.
Diners always have such a nice community warmth depending on where you are, my little Texas town has a cafe/diner and everyone goes there and has a laugh with everyone else there. Not great for my introverted self but its such a nice community feeling you come out of your shell rather fast🤭
fun fact... House addresses in most places are organized by block... so one block of houses will be the 100 block and the next block will be the 200... so the highest address on the 100 block may be 137 Maple Street, but it will start over at 201 when you cross to the next block.
Our trains called Amtrak and it goes across the country but sometimes you must switch trains. There are sleeper cars that you can purchase for your stay so as to not always be sitting. Sleeper cars also get first Call for the dining car.
Speaking of streets and addresses.....no one does addresses better than the state of Utah. I lived in Salt Lake City for 4 years, and it was virtually impossible to get lost there. All the major streets were named by their relationship to the LDS temple located in the center of the original city. The first street south of the temple is 100 South Street. The first street west is 100 West Street. The first street east is 100 East Street... The second street east is 200 East Street.....and so on. Each address on the streets is an exact geo location as to the relation to the temple. For example I lived at 1022 South and 1200 East Street (yes the address in indeed the whole thing). I lived 10.22 blocks due south of the temple, and 12 blocks east of the temple. You always knew where you were no matter where you live.
So true. If the LDS are anything, they're organized!
If you grew up in Chicago, you know that the deep dish stuff is something that tourists MUST have, but Chicago tavern style (cut into squares) is what most people eat. It's great!
The length of our addresses has to do with the number of land parcels on the road, so if the road is long and doesn't change names, you have a lot of parcels.
I always get hyped when I hear my city’s name. (My city is Cincinnati)I used to go to kings island all the time.
I worked one summer in Kings Island back in the 80's. My bosses were two teen girls, 18 and 16!!
Born and raised in Grand Rapids, Michigan and I can say that Detroit deep dish pizza is my favorite and you can't get an accurate one outside of Detroit. I have lived in more states with awful pizza than good ones! I hate soggy crust!
Thank you for sharing your opinions and laughter with us and the world My NZ Family! 😂 Love from Oklahoma, USA! Stay safe in your travels! 😎👍
I love soggy crust. I have broken teeth at least three times on hard pizza crust.
@@bryanspindle4455 I broke one on a NY style thin crust pizza but, soggy crust makes me sick and I feel like I am eating bread and water! 🤣
I'm retired, but I lived and worked across the states, lived in 13 states, and have visited about 40 of them. There is nothing like it. So much I had never heard of. Enjoy your adventure, but always be careful and have emergency materials and info with you.
When you’ve recuperated from your current trip, and start planning your next one, a road trip along Route 66 (from Chicago to California) will give you a great close-up of the country and some great “off the beaten path”, quirky, things to see. Can’t wait to hear your impressions of America from this time around!
I miss the road trips on our Harley’s from New York to California and back. Those were great times jumping on Route 66 as soon as we could and taking it all the way to Cali.
The national park around 6:40, shown in Alaska is Wrangell-St. Elias, and is #3 in size in the world, after NE Greenland (#1), and Tassili 'n Ajjer in Algeria. It's 1.29 the size of Netherlands, or 6 Yellowstones.
Only 63 national parks exist here at present, but in the national park service, there are 400+ properties--monuments, historic sites, battlefields, memorials, etc.
I’m very blessed to have grown up with wanderlust parents, in California. I’ve been all over and have seen many national parks. Cali has 9! So I’m very fortunate to have been to most, and to have also gone to The Grand Tetons, Zion, Yellowstone, Glacier Nat’l, and up into Canada. My parents took us across country when I was just 2, and we went all the way to Niagara Falls. I know Americans get flack for not traveling internationally as much as other countries citizens, but there’s just so much to see right in our own backyard, that most don’t even see all of our own country, in one lifetime.
Cultured American foodies know that the best restaurants and groceries are family operated mom and pop shops, often generations old, with recipes coming from or inspired by their country of origin.
Best comment about food, I always look for mom and pop restaurants ( stores too) and I have never been disappointed
I can't wait to see your take on America... make a lot of lists... I'm anxious to see them.
Definitely look forward to hearing your experiences in my country! You guys are awesome!
there's nothing in the world as fun as a road trip to a place you've never been before. or taking a different route to one you have.
when i visit family ive always taken I-44 to I-70 to eastern Indiana because it was the fastest way. the last time i went i took I-40 all the way to Memphis, stayed the night on Beale street and heard some of the best live blues ive ever heard. when i went out west to go surfing a few years ago for one last time before my knees got too bad, instead of I-40 the whole way because its fast, i stayed on route 66... and there's nothing like route 66 in a jeep with the top down. nothing. the stars up around flagstaff in the cocnino forest...
i lived in england for 3 years when i was a kid. castles are really cool. they are. i saw a bunch of em... but standing on the lip of the south rim of the grand canyon and looking out at that incredible thing is an experience i will never forget.
I’ve always wondered why we didn’t do more transportation by railways. It’s a very cool way to travel and would cut down on emissions. Great video guys!
If you look at the comments in Laurence's video you'll see a number of explanations regarding the road numbers, which are actually connected to the town/city/area as well as to the road itself. The numbers reference how far the location is from the center point and where the location fits in the block. For example, my address is 4624, which is 4.6 miles from the river and the 24th number for the block. For reference, my next door neighbors' address is 4620. Most locations are identified similarly, though some places (i.e. Washington D.C.) add the direction (SE for Southeast, NW for Northwest, etc.).
I loved going to Diners when I was younger, especially when my sister and I hitchhiked across the U.S. from western N.Y. to California in 1973. That was a lot of fun! We were lucky because we didn’t have any trouble with anyone while traveling that way.
That was amazing to hitchhike across the United States. I and a friend in 1978 took a Greyhound bus to New Mexico from Philadelphia and backpacked New Mexico and Arizona and the Grand Canyon. I was 17 years old.
@@jeffhampton2767 … Yeah, it’s more fun when you’re young to travel like that. I was 20 and I told my sister I wanted to do something different for my birthday. So, on that day in 1973, we hitchhiked to California from western N .Y. Enjoyed that a whole lot.
@@dianefiske-foy4717 That's pretty amazing. You were Brave. I'm glad I traveled a lot before the age of 50 because now that I'm in my 60s I have health issues, and could never do all that traveling. It's amazing what you can do when you're young. We carried 30-lb backpacks through the desert in the hot sun with blisters on our shoulders and it didn't even bother us. We stayed on Indian reservations and got in strangers pickup trucks. We were afraid of nothing. 🤔
@@jeffhampton2767 … Sounds amazing. I was in the U. S. Army too, for a short time. I’m 70 now and no longer even able to leave the house much. It’d be nice to be able to return to those early times. But it never could happen, except through reminiscing.
@@dianefiske-foy4717 At least we have great memories. Now we travel through younger people on RUclips. I used to walk for miles on beaches and hike for miles. Now I can only walk a short distance with a cane. I guess I wore my body out. I wish I could go back to the 60s, 70's and 80's. I believe we grew up in the best time in history. And we were very lucky. Because this world we live in now sucks for the most part. 🤔😂😂❤🍹🌹
Well, we don't have high-speed trains, but we have Amtrak. It has great routes crossing the entire country and beautiful sights while at it! It's great!
America is the most amazing country in the world. We have every climate, terrain, weather, food, people etc etc etc all around us. Everything here within our fifty states. I love my country.
*I love Lawrence from Lost in The Pond! Food, sports, and patriotism USA does do well. Sometimes overindulging in them.*
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When i go on road trips i find it fun to write down all of the different license plates that i see. It’s a fun game to keep you occupied. Also the alphabet sign game
Cool list, I live near one of the theme parks he mentioned. I live near holiday world in Santa Claus Indiana. It does exist, their post office gets thousands of Santa letters each year and they have volunteers that read them and respond to the kids.
I did the full Route 66 road trip from Chicago to Santa Monica in 2021. Incredible what you find driving it like Winslow Arizona or Uranus Missouri. Sad also with what is disappearing on the route due to age. You need to see it before it is gone.
The Mrs and I love love love going on road trips. Alot of weekends we will just go on a day trip here in Ohio (sometimes stay overnight at a random motel) and stop at many diners on the way!
So as a native Texan and from the Fort Worth area we do actually have trains, we have the TRE (Trinity Railway Express) and the Amtrak which is a national railway, It operates inter-city rail service in 46 of the 48 contiguous U.S. states and three Canadian provinces. i love going on the TRE because one you get a day pass for like 5 bucks i think which isnt too bad and that pass allow you access to the busses and the trains minus the Amtrak. Going from Downtown Fort Worth to Dallas is pretty simple with the TRE especially if its Comic Con time and you dont wanna drive while in full costume lol.
I an from colorado, originay an indoor girl from Chicago. ( not now, in the 60's when it was awesome to grow up in the culture).
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Here in Oregon, they have an unusual, and I think very clever, way of numbering rural roads. They start at zero where the road begins (like taking off from a highway), then number the houses based on how many miles they are from the starting point. My number is 7611, so I'm seven point six miles away from Hwy 101!
My last apartment number address was 24 and my current is 10796. I don live in a large metro. There is a lot of art around in parks and near government and other buildings. There are also a lot of great museums too!
It's a huge country and music is extremely diverse here. I'm sure you've heard of hip hop, rap, rock, punk, country - but we also have other styles of music unique to the United States. Bluegrass, for example - check out Billy Strings playing "Dust in a Baggie" when he was young, sitting on a couch. Dialects are extremely diverse here and you can hear an example in how he sings/speaks. If you have time, there are a lot of small places in the cities that have live music. The country is just so massive with such a huge population you could be here for years and continually discover new things/interests. There will be culture shock for sure when you visit.
I live at house number 14 in a suburb of St. Louis---but that is really unusual. When I lived in a suburb of Los Angeles, our house was number 20406, because it was probably fifteen miles from where the numbers started. St. Louis style pizza is cracker-thin and has a special kind of gooey cheese that isn't found anywhere else. We cut it into squares instead of wedges.
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Explaining address numbering system. The last 2 digits refer to the house number xxx12. The preceding numbers refer to the block number from the center of town 123xx. Even numbers are one side of the street, odd numbers the other side
You should check out "colonial williamsburg" in VA when you're in the US.
When they talked about horse and buggy I immediately thought about Mackinac Island. Lancaster, PA is kinda neat too in Amish land with their family style restaurants and awesome Amish country stores.
Living in the West, the National Parks are awesome. I currently live near Zions National Park, and it is an amazing place to visit every time.
The American rail system is vastly underrated, mostly by people who've never used it. You can, in fact, circumnavigate either the US itself or the entire continent of North America (or at least the Canadian/US portion) via passenger rail. There are 3 routes from Chicago to the West Coast (terminating in Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles) and several routes from Chicago to the East Coast.. There are also multiple routes from Boston to Florida via New York and Washington. Prior to Hurricane Katrina, there was transcontinental service from Los Angeles to Miami via New Orleans and railman's are working hard to get this restored (it still goes from LA to New Orleans and may soon go as far east as Mobile, AL but the final segment to Florida remains a goal). There are also storied north-south routes besides the Boston-Florida service such as New Orleans to Chicago and Los Angeles to Seattle. As if now, none of this is "high speed" although the east coast Acela is "high speed lite", and other than the Acela, it all shares the rails with freight lines so there are frustrating delays and you are at the mercy of the freight line dispatchers. But still these trains connect most American cities and lost of small towns and vast swaths of great scenery from ocean to ocean and border to border.
By the way, if you do want to circumnavigate the continent, the route is Los Angeles to Seattle to Vancouver to Toronto to New York to Florida then, because the Mobile-FL leg is still missing, Florida back to Washington to Chicago to Los Angeles (or Chicago to New Orleans to Los Angeles).
Our streets aren't actually THAT long. For instance, my house is the first (or last depending on if you come down our street) and the number is 103. The last house at the top of the hill is 606 but there are not even 50 actual homes on the street and the street is barely a mile long. The street it divided into "blocks" and house numbers within the defined area will start with that block number.