Two Brits travel Boston to Miami by any means necessary.. (How NOT to travel America #1)
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Grab the popcorn and hunker down for the most grandiose adventure series this channel has ever seen. This is How NOT to Travel America, a comically haphazard yet uniquely uplifting adventure
in which two bumbling brits attempt to charm their way from Boston to Miami by any means possible. Watch our progress as we interact with people from all walks of life, complete hilariously stereotypically American challenges and explore a whole range of settings on multiple modes of transport.
You're watching the very first episode, and keen to start the trip with a bang, Greg and I are hell bent on finding ourselves a cheap boat that we can sail the length of Long Island on. As you can see in the thumbnail we would eventually get a boat, but the rollercoaster of events that both preceded and followed the purchase made for quite a rocky ride..
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Drop a like if it’s coming home 🦁
No but seriously thanks for your patience and I hope this was worth the wait. Big shout out to Tommy, James, Jon, Stavros and all the boys at the marina for making this chapter such a great one!
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Only if you come home.
pickford will score a bloody screamer from the half way line
Dropped a like and gave Lighthouse Marina 5 stars!
I was gonna like the video before I saw this
You can’t make a tomlette without breaking some Greggs
surprise succession
unreasonably good joke
Just realised this hahahah :)
What do you know about Nero and Sporus?
Tom: "He's from Wales"
American woman: "I'm sorry"
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It is the standard response, to be fair. You just get used to it over time.
just hilarious
I'll raise with 47:17 Tom: "the Queen is dead. I can't tell you how fucking relieving that is" 😂
I'm sorry too
47:16 “But The Queen is dead… can’t tell you how f*king relieving that is”
The timing of those words right after in the edit is both unfortunate and hysterical 😂
I was laughing my ass off, wtf Tom 😂
Noticed that too 😂
The internal monologue of most people from all of the former British colonies when she died
arrest the queen
only thing unfortunate about the queens death is that it wasnt a long, drawn out, and excruciatingly painful one.
I don't know if I can wait a whole week to watch this series every week. This is better than 99% of what you would find on TV.
While I agree, you should try 7 vs. Wild.
but it was only 10min long🙄..... wait wtf your telling me i just watched an almost hour long video!!!
Lots of TV shows better than taking a fast food worker's money for a train ride to boost your youtube career.
@@eugenehertz5791 why are you even here on this channel you troll?
This type of content puts the 'You' in UA-cam. Sadly UA-cam is infiltrated by commercial MSM and their dross. Tom's content however is refreshingly raw, yet still possesses a fast paced storyline, which keeps you engaged and attentive. Coupled with impeccably clear, concise, jovial, yet considered narration; very good. That was nearly an hour! (Felt like 10 minutes.) One of the best channels.
As an American, so far I've been both a little ashamed at how difficult your travels have been (especially over land), and very proud of our "can-do" attitude when you managed to find the right folks to help you out. I completely agree with another comment that US culture can be very helpful and warm, but there's always that initial cold-shoulder and distrust that must be pushed through.
I cannot WAIT to see the rest of this adventure!!!
They got cold shoulders because they started in Boston.
@@VladZavi imagineif they would have started this trip in some small town in Indiana, Ohio, Iowa, or some other midwestern town. They would probably have gotten to Miami on the first day and would be SOL in terms of the UA-cam video lmao. As a guy from a fairly small town in Indiana, I can say with confidence that people here would be ecstatic to help these guys out, especially once we found out what exactly they were trying to do.
Im wondering if it will get much better once they are out of democratic shitholes.
@@LV_223 i will never look at ohio the same
@@VladZavi I mean, as someone from the Boston area, I get the stereotype as New Englanders are definitely reserved around strangers, but they did have a number of good conversations with people in Boston in the video. They just couldn't find anyone up for the drive, which is too bad, but doesn't mean that everyone is a jerk. Keep in mind that in Boston and Cambridge proper (where they were) a good portion of the population does not own a car and would not be able to help them drive there anyways.
39:58 - "We may not have had a clue what we were doing, but we were doing it, and the sense of adventure that filled our hearts as we exited the stillness of the harbour was real."
Forget the adventures for a moment, and savour Tom's poetry..
47:53 the engine is probably over heating due to no water being pumped through it, those engines cool themselves by pumping the cold sea water through them so if a hole is clogged somewhere it will stop that from happening resulting in a overheating engine.
Very easy to flood them. Pull the fuel hose off and dry start.
They flooded it. Somehow they managed to do everything right and they let it rest for a while before they tried to start it again. Truly impressed.
47:16 "But the Queen is dead."
*jump cuts*
"Can't tell you how fucking relieving that is."
Good job Tom
As a Philadelphian from Miami, you guys are definitely gonna have some crazy good and crazy bad experiences. The East Coast can be very friendly and very dangerous. Super excited for this, How Not to Travel europe is my favorite series on the channel, the vibes are immaculate. (Hope you run into Philly Tom)
I'm pretty sure they're already back home and this was recorded awhile ago.
@@Dingy099 yea I realized that, I was kinda speaking in the future tense for the sake of viewers
in what way do you mean dangerous? i'm heading out there in a few weeks for a little road trip of my own :)
@@DanLaneWowLookAtThisFancyURL it's not dangerous if you avoid sketchy places at night (some areas have a lot of gang / drug activity). Don't leave valuables in the car and be smart about where you park. Besides that you should have a great time
Greg has so much Phillies gear on already! He’s ready for Philly 🙂
Hey, I'm a part of this journey! (Not this part, but another one) Pleasure meeting you and having a beer with you two!
Hey, no spoilers! 🙃
nick off, mate. you didn't even make the trailer vid! 😉 (hello tom & greg! the wait has been killing us! )
Maybe he cut you?
@@78cr83 It's not in this part. This one is only a fraction of his journey. My old boss is in the trailer for the whole thing.
@@joshua10394 Nice! cant wait to see it!
31:08 As an American, I think this is an important moment. We're taught to be wary of strangers, but once you get past that barrier realize the person asking for help isn't crazy and just a person in need of help, we'll go a long way to make sure they get to the place they need to be. Very cool moment
Ive learned that Americans are very defensive, and dont open up as much
Im from the middle US and took a week vacation to Florida beaches. Stumbled accross 2 Brits who were doing a "florida beach trip" spending 2 nights at a different beach. I dunno why I trusted them so much, but those fools were drinking whiskey with me in my hotel room that night for no reason. Maybe I subconsciously knew they were from out of the country and wanted to help give them a hell of a trip. I hope they look back at their journey and remember the random drunk guy giving them endless bourbon. They definitely remain in my memories for sure. I'd like to think if the roles were reversed, they'd do the same for me.
As an American I am very much looking forward to this journey! I think you're going to find that most Americans will probably be wary at first but overall are very friendly and willing to help. Even though we in the Northeast have a pretty shitty reputation as being assholes, we're pretty friendly if you catch us right.
"the Queen is dead. ... Can't tell you how fucking relieving that is" hahahah unintentionally hilarious edit!
"But something about the manager seemed to change...he suddenly seemed genuinely invested in our mission..."
*~THIS VIDEO WAS SPONSORED BY LIGHTHOUSE MARINA~*
I burst out laughing at that. Classic setup and punchline. I guess he did a little bit of research and thought "FREE PROMOTION!!!"
The Comic Sans too....
No joke, this is really helping restore my faith in humanity. You guys are relying so much on the kindness of strangers and it's actually working. There really are good people everywhere. And no doubt you gave these kind folks stories to tell for years to come. I don't think I could manage a straight-line mission, but I would love to do a How NOT to Travel trip someday.
35:05 the happiness on his face while completing this quiz is hilarious.
truly a real boat enthusiast
Get in! Been waiting for this one for a while. Very excited for this series. The How NOT to Travel Europe was one of the best web series I've ever seen and really motivated me to get out there and travel. Let's go!!
First rule of boating: Don't hit the rocks. The second rule, don't hit anything else. Third, get to your destination. Great episode!
basically stay on the water like its a road and avoid sandbars/rocks like potholes lmao
This is so cool. As a fellow Long Islander and long time boater in the Little Peconic Bay, I can say with experience that you guys are [pretty damn brave for traveling that water on your little Frankenstein boat. Next time, use the channel markers! Your travels through the Great South Bay should be sketchy as well- lots of sharks out in that area near the Hamptons and Montauk. Loved seeing the guys at the Marina help ya'll out. That's what we're all about.
"We may not have had a clue what we were doing, but we were doing it."
That's pretty much this whole channel in a nutshell.
I love it.
My dad traveled around the globe when he was young, and one of his destinations was the US. This was back in the 90s, but yet his stories reminds me of what this adventure might become. He traveled from New York to Chicago to Denver, and then into California and Las Vegas which at the time was one of the fastest growing cities. Later on he made his way to Los Angeles, and coming from perhaps the smallest village in all of Sweden, it was quite the experience for him. He has told me that you could be driving at 100km/h through Los Angeles on a highway for hours on end, and still keep seeing houses and infrastructure flying by you outside the car window.
Finally! Best channel on UA-cam by a long way. Thank you for sharing your adventures Tom.
He doesn't ride on top of trains like shiey though. I wish shiey would travel in North America some time though.
Dream Team. Still love that there's unseen videos for me to see. The Europe series was one of the best things I've ever seen on UA-cam
Thanks for taking us all with you on these crazy adventures Tom and Greg! Looking forward to next weeks!
I am so excited for this series. The How to Travel europe videos are my favourite bunch of videos Ive watched on this platform. this video has given the same vibes already. I can otherwise only imagine the stories you two live through and create in books and nostalgic films, but you take me back to the fact, that this is the reality and also the beauty of life.
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@@coolian9933 Schnauze
Loved it Tom! The stark difference in walk-ability compared to Europe was so shocking to see but so understandable, being a Yankee myself
Mmmohmygod it's adventure time again!
Edit: This may not be a popular opinion, but I'd love for you to make another music album for your adventures. Ever since the first missioning video I was intrigued by the music, and later found out you actually produced it yourself. It's now happily living in my spotify likes.
Exactly. So much music was produced for Mission across Wales; how come we haven't got another album of it by now? There's a lot of reuse.
@@607 sheeesh be a bit more grateful for what you do have!
@@jmedia5547 You have no idea how grateful I am, so I don't know what you base that comment on.
@@607 Maybe he made the album as a kind of hobby project without the sole purpose of using it in the series of which he didn't even know it was going to be such a big hit. And I don't even mind the re-use honestly, because in the relatively short time that has pased it has managed to become very nostalgic and iconic for me. Hearing those tunes just puts me in that mood I only get from his adventure videos. Still, I love them so much that I'm just curious if he can expand that repetoire further with some more classics which will in time have the same effect.
So excited to see this series come back!!
How NOT to Travel Europe was probably one of my favourite series on UA-cam ever. I love your spirit of adventure, and I'll be here next week to see what you've been up to!
47:16
"The Queen is dead .....I can't tell you how f*cking relieving that is ......."
YESSSSS! I loved the how not to travel Europe series, honestly the most original and one of the best series on UA-cam. I even watched it with my roommates and they loved it, makes you realize just how nice some people can be.
Remember watching this a year ago and want to say how great it was and I can't wait for you guys to do another.
Another TV worthy series! I'd pay to see this if I had to.
I have been waiting with much enthausiasm for the first episode. Yesterday I told my girl I seriously couldn't wait to sit down with a brew and watch this!
This is going to be such a great series. A true modern day adventurer in the most fun way.
Just binged How not to travel Europe and it sets a mighty high bar for this adventure! Makes me nervous as an American that we'll fall short.
Shut up
How not to travel Europe is probably one of the best series I’ve ever seen, can’t wait to see this play out
can't believe you guys ended up in providence! sad i didn't spot you guys, but it's still crazy to see you inside my starbucks. the building right next to it there is the RISD library, it's open to visitors on weekdays-beautiful building, and you might have had a decent chance there of running into a helpful student. still glad you got to enjoy firsthand the charms of the deserted kennedy plaza bus area lmaoo. looking forward to binging this series!! hope you come back to the east coast sometime soon :)
You guys are absolutely nuts. I loved the last series so much. This new edition brings so much newer and cooler things that I enjoyed watching every minute of it and I couldnt be any more happy for your guys' adventure
Just started the video. Crazy you chose to go right through my neighborhood of Long Island! Loved here for my whole life and seen almost every inch of the island.
So excited to see how this goes for you!
EDIT: Oh lads, I really wouldn't have taken a small skiff like that across the Great South Bay! I think you may have underestimated how far you'd have to travel.
Pretty sure they stopped at Cowfish in The Hamptons. They didn't go to New Suffolk.
Never stop making these trips! They are the best thing on UA-cam right now.
So instantly from the intro I've gotten the vibe - "lets not be too care free and mischievous as we don't want to get shot" hahaha
That bit at the beginning "And 250 years later, we're back."
That was brilliant hahaha, super excited for this series.
Edit: Yeah, our car dependency is a massive problem in the US. I wish we had moved away from that, but every chance to do so gets shot down by car company lobbyists.
Edit2: 33:02 *Person at the marina watching this video* "I could've gotten a blow job???"
admittedly, we are semi-successfully doing so in a few select cities.
Not gonna lie, I wouldn't car about car dependency is cars didn't look so shit these days. If we kept the classical designs I'd be all for it, demolish my house I don't give a fuck, lol
Also what lobbyist? The government contracted automotive companies for infrastructure project, but last time I checked there weren't any lobbyists.
@@MrAsianPie Sorry that you're so lost.
Hopefully one day you'll pull your head above the propaganda.
@@shipwreck9146 considering how sketchy some of our cities can be, yeah I'll stay in my car gladly
It’s funny, as a teen when I lived in South America, I realized what a HUGE part of our lives and culture cars are. Especially for youth, cars represent our first taste of freedom. I couldn’t imagine life without sitting in drive through parking lots with friends, my first drive to my first job, pulling into school in my grandpas old 99 Lincoln. Now that I’m older, I hate our dependency on cars. I’ve lived in places with robust public transport and WOW life is better when you don’t depend on a car. But America is huge, and we just don’t have the infrastructure, and I don’t see us gaining it anytime soon.
Your videos always have so much character. Really fun to watch :D
00:22 Greg looks exceptionally tumescent he’s that excited 😆
🤣🤣🤣
47:17 But the Queen is dead
47:20 Can't tell you how fucking relieving that is
I love completely ignoring this channel for about 6 months at a time so that i can binge the shit out of the travelling series. Amazing content.
Very glad that UA-cam recommend me your channel a few months ago 😊. I absolutely love your videos. ❤
Damn, you guys totally missed the perfect timing to name the boat 'Elizabeth'. The boat shop guys could probably even have painted the name on it for you! 😄
Love the content, yall! Can't wait to see what the journey has to offer and watch the adventures you had along the way. Thanks for enjoying our beautiful country
Looking forward to seeing how much bigger of a Pickup they can blag a ride in, I mean they've already done a Super Duty but personally I'm hoping for a lifted dually.
you're obnoxiously good at these cliffhangers!! can't wait for the rest of the parts :D
can't believe you guys stopped by civil skateshop in downtown providence, seeing my old coworker in this video was a nice surprise !
Amazing to see you visit my hometown. Really great to see you travel this great country, even if you are perhaps a bit overly fearful of the USA.. 😅
I grew up in Quogue on Long Island, right in the middle of the Hamptons - the first thing we learned when we started boating around there is to stick to the channels. You're lucky you didn't snarl your prop with seagrass. Going through the Shinnecock Canal as a novice is nuts.
The British ferry guy was so eager to help, always the wives being little fun killers! Marina guys were legends too.
I’m from Long Island and I can’t believe the trip you guys made on that little dingy! I boat around those waters weekly and would never consider taking it all they way out to Brooklyn - love the channel & looking forward to the rest of the series!
54:22
Lady: "Are you from England?"
Tom: "Yeah I'm from England"
Lady: "I'm so sorry"
"250 years later, we're back" lmfao
I continue to be impressed by the ways you continue to demonstrate how geniuinely cool this platform can be. Truly a masterclass in youtube at display with this channel.
I spent the first half of the episode being sad to be American but I'm glad you eventually got it worked out. After being inspired by how not to travel Europe and thinking how it would go here, well this is about what I expected. Can't do anything too cheeky or you'll get shot/arrested and you're lucky to find people who don't immediately write you off.
13 minutes in & i'm stuck in!
Well done Tommy, you aspire me to get out of my comfort zone.
OOOOH YESSSS!! What an unexpected and wondrous treat to refresh youtube (for the 50th time per day) and see this waiting for me. I LOOOOOVE these trips.
I just stumbled upon this video and had to sub immediately due to this rare content. Awesome work, great watch
"The Queen is dead. I can't begin to tell you how relieving that is" -Geowizard, 2022
47:17
The editing choice of “the queen is dead”…..cut to next scene….”I can’t tell you how f-ing relieving that it is.” 😂 47:16
I know he didn’t mean it like that, but it’s hilarious out of context.
I’m from Long Island and spend a lot of time fishing so I’m supper familiar with all over the areas you’re going to be traveling. I can’t wait to see this stretch of the adventure
That "card declining" things is so incredibly annoying. As a Canadian who frequently travels to the US and Europe, the US is the only country I've ever had to keep actual physical money on me because many of the American machines aren't modern enough to understand our advanced card security.
\they don't even use PINs on their credit cards, and a lot of places want to actually TAKE your credit card from you and record all the info on it to charge you later. Absolutely gross and would never fly in more modern countries.
How can the richest country in the world be so behind in money tech. Their shitty cotton paper notes aren't even colour coded, and get destroyed when wet.
oh hey i discovered there is a new set of videos :D that saves my week - there is nothing that brings me more comfort than laying in bed with one of your videos and a bag of nachos - the production value is so high :O love it!!!
I can’t believe you were practically in my backyard and I had no idea. I would have loved to provide a free camping spot and a hot meal for you guys. Loved the journey so far
I know its not the 1600s anymore but the British Navy has really let themselves go
Great video boys. I can't wait for the next. I'm American but have some British heritage (and an Anglophile mother) and even I got a little misty at some of the memorials for the Queen, so seeing your reaction to the news was really heartwarming. Safe travels!
I'd love to see you get on a motorcycle and ride the Pacific Coast! DM me if that's an adventure you're interested in.
What a rollercoaster of a start.
Greg is a doppelganger of Jos Buttler and I cannot un-see it
Sorry but "desensitised to the days deluge of disarray" was such an amazing alliteration and I loved it. Just wanted to say that.
How many episodes will there be? Its a 30 day drip and this only covered a few days? Will some episodes cover more days or are we in for a really long series?
Tom, you've done it again. Absolutely incredible video, can't wait to see the next episode. Your ideas and adventures are amazing. Keep up the amazing content. I know you put your blood, sweat, and tears into the vids
I really can't tell wether or not they are serious about their reaction to the Queen. I love brits.
I totally missed out on this series and started with #3 not knowing that there were two more. What a treat!
Gents - this brings me such joy, what an incredible 56 minutes. Thank you
3:01 merrily boats kicking in looking down a foggy street , brilliant
Being from Suffolk, Long Island it makes me so happy to see the people there so nice!
Not sure why Welsh Greg has all of this Phillies gear but I’m here for it
It's very cool to see the experiences on your journey, it's so fun to watch 😎👍 So happy for you, these moments of traveling with a friend, meeting people etc are worth keeping and talking about when you get older ✌
You started your journey in Boston correctly: figuring out how to leave
Lmao, as an ex-resident of Boston who enjoyed my time there, I don’t know how to feel about this
@@ZhangK71 Well, "ex-resident" means that you, too, figured out how to leave.
As a born and raised Townie. Couldn't imagine wanting to live anywhere else. Lol. That's why I invited them back. We complain a lot, but Boston has a lot of good things to offer.
@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 Not by choice. Well, “everyone has a choice”. But my choice was literally move or not have a job and starve. But it’s unfair to call that a “choice” to leave the city.
This series is so damn good that I'm watching it again.
Getting clam chowder in NY after having missed the opportunity to do so in Boston would have been a crime
47:16
"But the Queen is dead... I cannot tell you how fucking relieving that is"
This edit had be cackling not going to lie. I really hope at some point an American is extra nice to you in support of the grief you must be experiencing at the loss of our beloved monarch, because ngl I totally would have laid it on thick had I been in the states at the time just to see what I could get away with. You could probably use it if stopped by the police for something tbh, like "oh sorry office, we just aren't thinking straight with our dear Queen gone"
Very excited to see you track accross my beautiful homeland! I’ve been waiting for this eagerly.
As a European I cannot imagine living somewhere with no public transport whatsoever. At worst you're in some absolutely miniscule farming town with only a handful of buses per day.
Welcome to USA & Canada, where there's way more land then people.
Yep, it's pretty bad. Everything is so far apart and you NEED a car to live. And they're so far in the part of the US with the best public transit. Lucky there are even trains between cities in New England. Once they're past D.C. they're SOL for any trains at all.
Very oddly enough I am an american and when you guys found out Queen Elizabeth passed I was in Lake Como at that time. Then I was looking at your shirt in this video... weird coincidence.
Shut up
@@cbum76How about you do
@@MassachusettsTrainVideos1136 Wow mate really scared me with that one. Shush
Yes! I've been waiting for this since how not to travel europe. Best series on youtube.
I know it's only the beginning of the trip, but man the differences in hospitality when comparing European countries to the US is pretty stark! I feel it's going to be quite a struggle, which should make for good content though. This is going to be a very interesting series!
Only going to get worse as they go South.
Which are you saying is more hospitable?
@@boarbot7829 are you serious?
Please, which one? Which is he saying is more hospitable!?
@@boarbot7829 he implied several times that he is kinda disappointed by the lack of hospitality and disappoibted in the missing opportunities if you don't have a car.
this series could not have been timed more perfectly for me! Thanks
47:14 "Were going again, but the queen is dead"
rename this series Greg's Bulge.
The title does not lie, this is how not to travel America. Looking forward to the next episode!
Oh man this is just as great as I hoped it would be! Can't wait for the next episode!
Great video! Despite that last bit, I hope to see you enjoy my country and my people treating you well in the following videos (which I will watch now)!
"Anyway, we're going again. But the Queen is dead. I can't tell you how relieving it is..."
"Just out boat, we thought it was broke."
nice editing lmao