Welcome to Vancover, Canada 🇨🇦, it must be heck lots of pure driving pleasure and safe trip from Seattle....the sceneries are just beautiful....thanks AK for bringing us along...
@@ActionKid They sure have!! I actually prefer the coffee at Dunkin’ Donuts but I’ll occasionally stop in at a Starbucks, too, just to sit down, relax, and have a coffee and a bite to eat.
Such an enjoyable drive to the Vancouver , especially the sceneries and the views down on the road were absolutely great 😎I like these drives a lot 🙂Thank you for sharing A K🙂👍!!
Pacific Northwest has some beautiful scenery. May I suggest if you ever return to Canada rent a car one way in Calgary and drive through Banff, Lake Louise, Kelowna, Vancouver, Victoria and Nanaimo.
It's very rarely freezing in that part of BC. 40 F and raining is pretty typical for a winter day in Van, same as Seattle. Did you think the weather just magically changes at the Cdn border?
I'll be in Vancouver next week,but flying there. Cool driving video been to Seattle too! I'll be in Van City for 3 nights yeah! Go to Stanley Park next time it has totem poles.
That was a pretty smooth trip between the cities - the benefits of early Sunday travel! I'm not sure if it was the rest stop you used, but there's one right along that same area of I-5 northbound that I always like to stop at heading back towards BC. They used to have organizations staffed by volunteers handing out free coffee as a way to help keep drivers less drowsy. Also, as you drove north on I-5 around the Mount Vernon area you may have spotted signs for La Conner; the have the largest tulip festival in the United States there, running during the month of April. In Vancouver Broadway's all torn up at the moment (and will be for the next few years) while they are building the new Sky Train line that will go out to the University of British Columbia. There will also be massive developments along that corridor to go with it.
Cool... I live between these two cities... great video road-trip and commentary... I'd like to visit BC more, but always seem to get hassled by the border agents on both sides! Alas!
My parents took me to watch the Mariners and Seahawks in the 70's, just got my 1st passport, was planning on a trip to see the Mariners. Not sure wich way to go, I've been down I5 plenty of times. Never took the ferry from Victoria. Then I remembered the train from Vancouver to Seattle. I think I will take my 1st train ride
Depends on where in the Seattle area you are , if Rush hour that adds a lot of extra time , But it’s 120 miles down town to downtown town the suburbs of both cities are much closer ,
Mostly watched entire video but with a few interruptions for coffee, etc. Did you happen to film the tulip fields while driving on I-5 in the Mt. Vernon area? They rival some of the best Holland fields by far.
I lived in Seattle during the glory days of the 90s ( as well as San Francisco). My 2 big regrets was not going to Canada and leaving Seattle for NYC without a college degree.
I also noticed it a lot as well when I visited Vancouver for the first time. From what I’ve found, it varies from province to province but in BC, it means that the intersection is “Pedestrian Activated” which basically means that you can precede but any pedestrians have right of way
Thank you for distinguishing which Vancouver you are referring to in your title. Vancouver, WA, is actually the original Vancouver (both being named by the same guy. Additionally, Vancouver, WA, and BC are roughly the same time distance away from Seattle.
It’s so different crossing the border in the Late 1970s we as teens use to go down the Seattle InternInternational AirPort Raceway the Funny Cars ,from Vancouver BC , The only thing the American border guard asked was have you boys been drinking , no passports needed , just Canadian Identification
This video is great. Me and my fam are going soon mid july...and really undecided/confused on what route to take fr seattle to Vancouver. Thinking the drive mightbe easier....the whole ferry or amtrak might not be for me. But open to anyone suggestions.
But why? Driving? You could have taken the nice comfortable and attractive Cascades train from a lovely downtown station in Seattle to another in downtown Vancouver, sat back relaxing as the scenery slipped by with plenty of time to take pictures, while sipping a beer or wine and enjoying the trip. Instead, like some belch from a dysfunctional past still disrupting our present, you decide to drive. Now you’ll have all the hassles of a car in the city, including potential break ins and parking hassles. Do you flagellate yourself at home?
Love the video, there's one spot that you said Native American. Please use the Turm Indigenous. I'm Indigenous and Native American is a old saying and it can be used in the wrong way but from watching your footage I know your not saying it in the wrong way. 😊
That border patrol guy was extremely annoying, the mans just going to Canada for a short vacation, how many questions does the guy need to ask! He had the personality of a cabbage as well. I dont get interrogated like that at arrivals at an airport arriving in The U.S never mind Canadian airports!
As a Canadian I watched it all! I’m proud of our Border Patrol officers. … and I enjoyed the ending with your signal light ticking like a Cuckoo Clock reminding me of how this 80 year old guy kills time! I’ve subscribed!
What an epic drive Ken!!I love driving videos and my eyes lit up when I saw this one came up on my notification list so much beautiful scenery and I just love the approach into Vancouver it looks so futuristic many thanks from Melbourne Victoria in Australia 🙂👍🇦🇺🇨🇦🇺🇲
Nice to see Pike Place Market early in the morning, and Starbucks already had a line! The drive on I-5 North without traffic is so relaxing and scenic with lots of greeneries. 😌 1:43:57 It's neat that you made a stop at Peace Arch Park, and I'm looking forward to see the prerecorded video. 😃 1:47:16 Peace Arch 1:57:13 Crossing the border with just a few simple questions, awesome! 😎 I was on a family road trip in the 90s, and my parents brought lychee from Vancouver back into the US but didn't report it to the US customs at the border. The lychee was confiscated and they were fined $100. 😅 2:04:15 Nice pedestrian bridge. Glad you had a safe drive, and it was nice to see the streets in Vancouver. Thank you for sharing this informative and relaxing drive, AK! 🤗
If it was a Sunday in Vancouver, there was probably a cruise ship or three at Canada Place.. thats why all the cabs were headed there. Sorry if you parked there, it probably cost $30
Hello ActionKid. It was a very nice drive to Vancouver. I like this videos with driving a car from city to city very much. Hopefully there comes another nice video from you. Have a good time. Greetings from good old Germany, SchatziPuffi 😅😊
I did this journey at 1984 It truly is a beautiful and significant sight seeing Thank you for your video In my years, we used only video tapes to record
Excellent video! I will be making this exact drive when I visit the Pacific Northwest in October 2024. This really helps me prepare for what I will see. Thank you.
I had plans to visit Vancouver Canada for my bday in the fall. Rather I fly or drive, will they be giving me these same questions they ask you? I’m glad they are asking these important questions for safety. Hope you had an amazing trip to Canada 🇨🇦😊
Thanks!
You're welcome, thank you for the support!
Can you visit Ontario
My wife and I took this exact drive April 27th. We live in Atlanta and neither of us had been to Vancouver, so it was a fun road trip.
This is the best video I watched. It is very detailed. Thank you. This is the best video I have ever watched about driving from Seattle to Vancouver.
Thank you for doing this drive in real time with no editing! Driving to Canada Place for a cruise and it eases my mind seeing the route.
Welcome to Vancover, Canada 🇨🇦, it must be heck lots of pure driving pleasure and safe trip from Seattle....the sceneries are just beautiful....thanks AK for bringing us along...
You're welcome, it was a nice drive to Vancouver from Seattle.
The road leading to the city ofVancouver looks like a unfinished secondary road . Vancouver is not w world class city ... bland urban development .
@@jeanbolduc5818 because it is a secondary road. their main road goes out of the city towards the east.
Thanks for showing my old hometown of White Rock BC ..its on the left side as you approach the border. That drive was my old haunt
I’ve done that drive 4-5 times, but not since 2005, brings back memories. Got relatives in Surrey and Richmond. Thank you.
This is cool to see as I drive often as well from Vancouver to Seattle to visit friends. 😊
The drive was so scenic it made the trip very enjoyable. And hardly any traffic on the road makes a nice change.
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This is so cool to watch! I was born in Vancouver, but I grew up in Surrey. I never thought you'd be driving through. Welcome to BC!
Thank you so much for watching! It was an fun experience driving through
I was in BC last week Saturday it's nice out there would love to live there in British Columbia. I was born raised in Brampton, Ontario.
Look Very beautifull driving tour
Thank YOU So much for great sharing my freind
Thanks for the video. I'm planning to drive from Seattle to Vancouver first week in April as well, hope the weather is as nice as 2023......
This is such an amazing video. Thank you AK for sharing with us your drive from Seattle to Vancouver! keep it up with the awesome vids!!
You're welcome, thanks for enjoying this drive
i do this drive at least 3 times a week round trip, it never gets old.
Awesome video I used to live in Seattle Washington as kid 😀 those were the good old days 😀
Thanks for the video... I did this back in March of 1999... GOOD MEMORIES!!!
We’re going tomorrow your video is help us a lot! Thank you for sharing ❤
I had my first Starbucks in Vancouver in 1991. I had no idea back then just how ubiquitous Starbucks would become.
Starbucks has really expanded since then!
@@ActionKid They sure have!! I actually prefer the coffee at Dunkin’ Donuts but I’ll occasionally stop in at a Starbucks, too, just to sit down, relax, and have a coffee and a bite to eat.
Very cool of you to record your interaction with the border guard. Never seen that before.
Canadian ones are nice but don't fool with them.
Thanks!
@@ActionKid I wonder what was the last question they asked you?
My name is Brian
The interaction with the border guard is awesome, I'm planning go for the first time to Canada and this video is helpful for me. Thanks..!!!
Such an enjoyable drive to the Vancouver , especially the sceneries and the views down on the road were absolutely great 😎I like these drives a lot 🙂Thank you for sharing A K🙂👍!!
You're welcome, thank you so much for watching!
Washington awesome! Such a peaceful drive! Hope to move there soon!
I've always wanted to see this route, thank you for the amazing ride Ken 👏👏👏
Pacific Northwest has some beautiful scenery. May I suggest if you ever return to Canada rent a car one way in Calgary and drive through Banff, Lake Louise, Kelowna, Vancouver, Victoria and Nanaimo.
That would be pretty cool!
I've done that (almost) exact trip. What a blast! Beautiful country. I love Alberta and BC.
Thank you for the scenic ride.
I'm loving this road trip!
big road quality difference when hopping into canada, all are sealed up due to freezing temperatures for months every year beautiful video!
It's very rarely freezing in that part of BC. 40 F and raining is pretty typical for a winter day in Van, same as Seattle. Did you think the weather just magically changes at the Cdn border?
So all this time ActionKid had a drivers license and knew how to drive? Whoa!
thank you for show me around canada
I'll be in Vancouver next week,but flying there. Cool driving video been to Seattle too! I'll be in Van City for 3 nights yeah! Go to Stanley Park next time it has totem poles.
Congrats! First video of yours i see in a car!
I have plan to travel from Seattle to Vancouver next Saturday. Before I start my trip, Is there any thing i can do to minimize time in border? Thanks.
That was a pretty smooth trip between the cities - the benefits of early Sunday travel! I'm not sure if it was the rest stop you used, but there's one right along that same area of I-5 northbound that I always like to stop at heading back towards BC. They used to have organizations staffed by volunteers handing out free coffee as a way to help keep drivers less drowsy. Also, as you drove north on I-5 around the Mount Vernon area you may have spotted signs for La Conner; the have the largest tulip festival in the United States there, running during the month of April. In Vancouver Broadway's all torn up at the moment (and will be for the next few years) while they are building the new Sky Train line that will go out to the University of British Columbia. There will also be massive developments along that corridor to go with it.
Thank You very much AK. Great Video. 😊🥰👍🍺
I would go to Seattle quite often back in the day because my aunt and uncle live there beautiful city just like Vancouver.
Cool... I live between these two cities... great video road-trip and commentary... I'd like to visit BC more, but always seem to get hassled by the border agents on both sides! Alas!
My parents took me to watch the Mariners and Seahawks in the 70's, just got my 1st passport, was planning on a trip to see the Mariners. Not sure wich way to go, I've been down I5 plenty of times. Never took the ferry from Victoria. Then I remembered the train from Vancouver to Seattle. I think I will take my 1st train ride
That's so cool
It's funny when I looked at a North America map I considered Vancouver and Seattle as twin cities but it's a 3 hours drive.
It's a long distance from each other.
Depends on where in the Seattle area you are , if Rush hour that adds a lot of extra time , But it’s 120 miles down town to downtown town the suburbs of both cities are much closer ,
Mostly watched entire video but with a few interruptions for coffee, etc. Did you happen to film the tulip fields while driving on I-5 in the Mt. Vernon area? They rival some of the best Holland fields by far.
No, I didn't see the tulip fields!
That was on both Queen Anne and Capital Hills.
Good
I lived in Seattle during the glory days of the 90s ( as well as San Francisco). My 2 big regrets was not going to Canada and leaving Seattle for NYC without a college degree.
Keep up the good work bro
2:37:20 A blinking GREEN light! Is that a common thing in Canada? I haven’t really seen it much in the US.
I also noticed it a lot as well when I visited Vancouver for the first time. From what I’ve found, it varies from province to province but in BC, it means that the intersection is “Pedestrian Activated” which basically means that you can precede but any pedestrians have right of way
Thank you for distinguishing which Vancouver you are referring to in your title.
Vancouver, WA, is actually the original Vancouver (both being named by the same guy. Additionally, Vancouver, WA, and BC are roughly the same time distance away from Seattle.
Love this video and journey! Thanks!!
Yall should visit Beaufort county sc its very pertty here.
MEU SONHO FAZER UMA VIAGEM DESSA.
I didn’t know Seattle was so hilly.
Id be worried having to stop my Spyder on one of them. I'd have to play with the clutch and throttle at the same time so as not to role down
@@vangary100You pull the e-brake up and let it down slowly as you lift the clutch and apply the throttle.
It’s so different crossing the border in the Late 1970s we as teens use to go down the Seattle InternInternational AirPort Raceway the Funny Cars ,from Vancouver BC , The only thing the American border guard asked was have you boys been drinking , no passports needed , just Canadian Identification
This video is great. Me and my fam are going soon mid july...and really undecided/confused on what route to take fr seattle to Vancouver. Thinking the drive mightbe easier....the whole ferry or amtrak might not be for me. But open to anyone suggestions.
Was that a car from Florida that past you at the 2:18:00 mark?
You missed pointing out you drove underneath the Seattle monorail in downtown Seattle going towards it’s endpoint at Westlake Center.
Good video and once you are in Canada, British columbia.its British Columbia province route 99.awesome video.
nice
Wow! Most countries prohibited recording on border checkpoints.
I was thinking about driving for Seattle to Vancouver. Would you say the drive is easy?
Yes, very very easy...
I’m guessing any hitch hiking on I-5 is frowned on
Depends on the state. I think it's legal in California and Oregon, but not Washington.
I wonder if it will be different flying in
Easy-Peasy.
Come to Austin and say that again about the fastest growing city. They won't stop building stuff here. Make it stop...
Seattle is a very nice city but it's very expensive to live there, nice trip though
At the southern boarder of I-5 there are signs of a lady with a little kid with a NO sign.
do you have onbord conversion eng to metric
I Want Rain 🌧 I Want Tule Fog 🌫 I Want Janubury Weather
Did you just ran over a pigeon????? 1:42
Do it all the time, but reverse.
Uhhh... ! Overtaking on the RIGHT side and not on the LEFT ???? 😲
Why does the border officer ask so many questions?
I've never been asked so many questions in airport immigrations
Can anyone tell me if we need a passport to get into canada?
But why? Driving? You could have taken the nice comfortable and attractive Cascades train from a lovely downtown station in Seattle to another in downtown Vancouver, sat back relaxing as the scenery slipped by with plenty of time to take pictures, while sipping a beer or wine and enjoying the trip. Instead, like some belch from a dysfunctional past still disrupting our present, you decide to drive. Now you’ll have all the hassles of a car in the city, including potential break ins and parking hassles. Do you flagellate yourself at home?
Love the video, there's one spot that you said Native American. Please use the Turm Indigenous. I'm Indigenous and Native American is a old saying and it can be used in the wrong way but from watching your footage I know your not saying it in the wrong way. 😊
I believe 'Native American' is the correct terminology at least in the USA.
Can you live in canada
Why so much graffiti though on the bridges
Oi
That border patrol guy was extremely annoying, the mans just going to Canada for a short vacation, how many questions does the guy need to ask! He had the personality of a cabbage as well. I dont get interrogated like that at arrivals at an airport arriving in The U.S never mind Canadian airports!
USA 🇺🇲 ❤ better than all country
Wow thats all you got from this video?
Vancouver sucks...turnaround, I've lived here for 20 years and it's gone down the shitter! Stay away from main and hastings
Do you miss NYC?
As a Canadian I watched it all! I’m proud of our Border Patrol officers. … and I enjoyed the ending with your signal light ticking like a Cuckoo Clock reminding me of how this 80 year old guy kills time! I’ve subscribed!
Awesome drive! North America is absolutely beautiful!!
Much appreciated, it was so beautiful!
The construction on Broadway is for the Broadway Subway extension
What an epic drive Ken!!I love driving videos and my eyes lit up when I saw this one came up on my notification list so much beautiful scenery and I just love the approach into Vancouver it looks so futuristic many thanks from Melbourne Victoria in Australia 🙂👍🇦🇺🇨🇦🇺🇲
Nice to see Pike Place Market early in the morning, and Starbucks already had a line! The drive on I-5 North without traffic is so relaxing and scenic with lots of greeneries. 😌 1:43:57 It's neat that you made a stop at Peace Arch Park, and I'm looking forward to see the prerecorded video. 😃 1:47:16 Peace Arch 1:57:13 Crossing the border with just a few simple questions, awesome! 😎 I was on a family road trip in the 90s, and my parents brought lychee from Vancouver back into the US but didn't report it to the US customs at the border. The lychee was confiscated and they were fined $100. 😅 2:04:15 Nice pedestrian bridge. Glad you had a safe drive, and it was nice to see the streets in Vancouver. Thank you for sharing this informative and relaxing drive, AK! 🤗
Thanks for sharing your experiences with crossing the border, sorry to hear your lychee got confiscated
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Great video. Brings back a lot of memories when I was there many years ago. Thanks again
First time I watched since you left New York welcome to Canada.
WOW Thanks for your video. Driving to Canada for the first time soon.
If it was a Sunday in Vancouver, there was probably a cruise ship or three at Canada Place.. thats why all the cabs were headed there. Sorry if you parked there, it probably cost $30
I never been to Vancouver BC, I heard that it's pretty there but we don't have a passport for Canada.
Hello ActionKid. It was a very nice drive to Vancouver. I like this videos with driving a car from city to city very much. Hopefully there comes another nice video from you. Have a good time. Greetings from good old Germany, SchatziPuffi 😅😊
Much appreciated, glad you enjoyed it!
I did this journey at 1984
It truly is a beautiful and significant sight seeing
Thank you for your video
In my years, we used only video tapes to record
google could have hired you get those street views all the way to BC 🤣
Excellent video! I will be making this exact drive when I visit the Pacific Northwest in October 2024. This really helps me prepare for what I will see. Thank you.
Same here we are planning a small trip and this will def help.
Great video!!
Great video Ken! I've driven the other direction from Vancouver to Seattle. Usually when you see no hitchhiking signs it's because a prison is nearby.
I'm hopping to get a visa, i want to drive from VA to Se.
Do you need a passaport to enter vancouver?
You need a passport to enter Canada
I had plans to visit Vancouver Canada for my bday in the fall. Rather I fly or drive, will they be giving me these same questions they ask you? I’m glad they are asking these important questions for safety. Hope you had an amazing trip to Canada 🇨🇦😊
Love the drive! That border was tough though. Watching your peace arch Park video now
The Moore theater at the begining of your drive is famous. Alot of bands got their start there.