Seattle, WA to Billings, MT: A Complete Real Time Road Trip

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  • Опубліковано 12 гру 2024

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  • @unclecoolie
    @unclecoolie  2 роки тому +38

    I have a lot of travel coming up in the next several weeks, so it will likely be late April before I get day two of this trip uploaded.

    • @KCETinTW
      @KCETinTW 2 роки тому

      No worry, we can wait.
      Looking forward!!!

    • @NinaCeee
      @NinaCeee 2 роки тому +1

      Looking forward to all the footage! I love the real time vids, as they give me my road trip fix (it's been 3 years since I was last over in the States now and I'm missing it like crazy!) I tend to put a real time vid on while I'm working so whenever I take a break from looking at my computer, I see something lovely on my TV screen! 😂 📺 Safe travels!

    • @unclecoolie
      @unclecoolie  2 роки тому +1

      @@NinaCeee I'm hoping to get some more video--stay tuned.

    • @unclecoolie
      @unclecoolie  2 роки тому

      @@KCETinTW Thanks!

    • @matthewricketts5330
      @matthewricketts5330 2 роки тому

      Will be looking forward to it

  • @helly9027
    @helly9027 2 роки тому +51

    videos like these really help me feel more connected to the world. as someone whose immunocompromised its been hard to let myself go outside the past couple years, but these videos are great for those days im sick of being stuck inside and help remind me i have so much more to see when its finally safe outside 💕 thank you so much!

    • @unclecoolie
      @unclecoolie  2 роки тому +2

      Thank you very much! I really appreciate it.

  • @markn.reprisal9472
    @markn.reprisal9472 2 роки тому +13

    4K, all Real Time, no hideous music in the background, ...EXCELLENT !!!
    I particularly like the drive across Washington. It was almost like being *home.* On the way through Ellensburg I did have a desire to leave the freeway and head over to my Dorm _.....( If it's still there!!! )_

  • @thetree6481
    @thetree6481 2 роки тому +7

    Thank you for this video, I love your real time road trips. Also I appreciate you taking your time to edit these videos, I know you have other things to do like family or work and I'm sure editing these videos took very long so thank you for taking the time to edit these road trips.

    • @unclecoolie
      @unclecoolie  2 роки тому

      Thank you! They do take a long time to make. Fortunately, it's not as bad making the real time versions after I make the time lapse because all of the points of interests and graphics are already done, and all I have to do for the real time is export the raw video from Virb, create a new map overlay, and adjust the times of the points of interests that I have saved to reflect that the time-differences between points are 4 times longer--that's it. The brunt of the work always goes into making the time lapse version first.

    • @thetree6481
      @thetree6481 2 роки тому

      @@unclecoolie Oh. Still, thank you for this video, and I'm about 2 hours in watching the drive.

  • @rominaromina
    @rominaromina 2 роки тому +4

    Love all your real time videos. It's all so very relaxing and the views are beautiful. Thanks for your work and making them available! I always have them as background when I'm working and even when I can't fall asleep.

    • @unclecoolie
      @unclecoolie  2 роки тому +1

      Glad you like them, thanks! 👍

  • @leytonbotha-saunders9712
    @leytonbotha-saunders9712 2 роки тому +2

    The real time road trip it's my favorite thanks. With music it's just magic trip. Thanks Buddy.
    Friendly
    From France :)

    • @unclecoolie
      @unclecoolie  2 роки тому

      Thank you, from the Washington, DC area!

  • @ADogNamedMilo
    @ADogNamedMilo 2 роки тому +3

    I really like the part between Moses Lake WA to Deer Lodge MT the most. The scenery at sunset in Montana around 7:28:00 and 7:50:00 was breathtaking. I definitely plan to spend some time in the Spokane, Coeur d' Alene, and Lookout Pass regions, when I will have the opportunity. I mean this country has a gazillion of beautiful spots and routes, but this corner is a must-see for me. Thank you sir for giving me the opportunity to travel, at least virtual for now. Have a good time, take care, and always have a safe trip.

    • @unclecoolie
      @unclecoolie  2 роки тому

      Thank you! That was my favorite part of this drive, too.

  • @floridaandpuertoricomappin9893
    @floridaandpuertoricomappin9893 2 роки тому +2

    Awesome ty for another realtime roadtrip video, we haven't had those in a long time. Ty travelling is just exciting and relaxing at the same time.😄👍

  • @matthewricketts5330
    @matthewricketts5330 2 роки тому +3

    Awesome start to the road trip so far.

  • @riyadhalkhafaji202
    @riyadhalkhafaji202 2 роки тому +1

    I did same drive with my family in 2014, we were going to Bozeman, Montana. Thank you so much to let me remember this trip again…

  • @bobby68ify
    @bobby68ify 2 роки тому +1

    Hello U.C. it´s me. I´m watching your new video and as usual great and wonderful. (until now WA, Kittitas County) Thank you so much too!
    I remember. The junction I-82 / I-90, you had passed this point in an other road trip, westbound from I-82, exactly May 6th, 2018 at 9:20 a.m. on the way from Caldwell ID to Tacoma WA. Awesome. *LOL*
    bye for now, Robert.

  • @lynnedaum7721
    @lynnedaum7721 2 роки тому +2

    Hi Unclecoolie, I love your videos. Hopefully my husband and I will start doing road trips again. I’m looking forward to seeing part 2 of this trip.

    • @unclecoolie
      @unclecoolie  2 роки тому

      Thank you! I had a lot of travel over the last few weeks (including the recording of another road trip), so I haven't had the chance to really work on day 2 until now. I will have it uploaded within the next couple of weeks.

    • @lynnedaum7721
      @lynnedaum7721 2 роки тому

      That’s great. I only just subscribed to your videos because I enjoy watching them so much.

  • @PNWPIGGY1978
    @PNWPIGGY1978 2 роки тому +3

    DID THIS DRIVE BACK IN 2019 BUT IN REVERSE. THAT STRETCH FROM SPOKANE TO BILLINGS IS BEAUTIFUL BUT BRUTAL. THANKS FOR SHARING!!!!

    • @unclecoolie
      @unclecoolie  2 роки тому +1

      Thank you! I liked the winter scenery of this drive, but I don't see myself doing another winter drive up north again.

  • @Oder_Aber
    @Oder_Aber 2 роки тому +1

    THIS is how a Road-Trip-Video should be! Thank you so much for your continuous surpreme content!

    • @unclecoolie
      @unclecoolie  2 роки тому

      My pleasure! Glad you enjoyed it!

  • @be236
    @be236 2 роки тому +1

    I really like the map overlay at the top-left of video... helps you to know where you are during the drive.

  • @saulgoodmanisreal
    @saulgoodmanisreal 2 роки тому +2

    I am actually going the EXACT SAME trip tomorrow! We are going to Mercedes of Billings to pick up our EQS SUV!

    • @unclecoolie
      @unclecoolie  2 роки тому

      Awesome. The foliage should look great right now.

  • @roadsexplore
    @roadsexplore 2 роки тому +1

    I-90 has many attractions, a great roadtrip through NW. Enjoyed every km of it, watched it until it got dark, can't wait for the continuation. Thanks a lot for the video, greetings from a fellow roadtripper and creator from Germany!

    • @unclecoolie
      @unclecoolie  2 роки тому +1

      Thank you! Greetings from Virginia!

  • @yuukinishimura9346
    @yuukinishimura9346 2 роки тому +2

    Great as always!

    • @unclecoolie
      @unclecoolie  2 роки тому

      Thank you! Day 2 is coming in the next couple of weeks. I had to take a few weeks' break from editing due to a lot of travel, including another road trip that I'll be uploading sometime after I finish the real time of this trip.

  • @josephgumm8175
    @josephgumm8175 2 роки тому +1

    I Loved travelling through the Cascades! This is awesome!

    • @unclecoolie
      @unclecoolie  2 роки тому

      It was nice. I'm glad that the weather cooperated.

  • @joseburgos7803
    @joseburgos7803 2 роки тому +2

    Excelente Unicode me gustó mucho el vídeo 👌😃 más de estos vídeos porfavor

  • @AmbientWalking
    @AmbientWalking 2 роки тому +1

    I just want to be able to go on a journey with you all the time! Thank you for all the views of the world! : )

    • @unclecoolie
      @unclecoolie  2 роки тому

      Thank you! 😊

    • @stimpyueediot
      @stimpyueediot 2 роки тому +1

      @@unclecoolie You should start selling tickets lol.

    • @unclecoolie
      @unclecoolie  2 роки тому +1

      @@stimpyueediot Not a bad idea. But I prefer to drive alone.

  • @williamkinsey8174
    @williamkinsey8174 2 роки тому +1

    Great trip
    You must have really had some weather on that trip unclecoolie
    Pretty much white out conditions from the moment we leave Seattle!🥶

    • @unclecoolie
      @unclecoolie  2 роки тому

      Thanks. I just missed a storm by only a couple of days in Idaho and Montana. I got caught up in one in North Dakota and Minnesota--frigid temperatures, too.

  • @Tarantula7Tom
    @Tarantula7Tom 2 роки тому +1

    Thank you, love your real time videos 😊

    • @unclecoolie
      @unclecoolie  2 роки тому

      Thanks! I'm glad to know that! I will be going on vacation next week, so it will be at least a week after next before I can get day 2 uploaded. Plus, I just got done with another road trip last week, so I'll be uploading video from that in the near future, too.

  • @alexflores9582
    @alexflores9582 2 роки тому +6

    Man.... wish I could record my travels from Seattle to Ciudad Juarez Mexico in real time like this when i did it 4 times alone back in the mid 2000's when i was in my late teens and early 20's. I got caught in a snowstorm in Utah and a hailstorm in New Mexico.... Love these videos!

    • @unclecoolie
      @unclecoolie  2 роки тому +2

      I did some road trips back then that I wished that I could've recorded, too.

  • @okell8319
    @okell8319 2 роки тому

    watched the full 11 hours and it is crazy that it was all just simple and straight shot across I-90!

  • @powdertrax9742
    @powdertrax9742 2 роки тому +1

    @ 1:58:49 if you look to the right side of the screen on top of the hill to the right of the two, you can see three small objects on top of the hill. There are 15 wild hose sculptures up there, in 1989 David Govedare built the wild horses and named it “Grandfather cuts loose the ponies”.
    It’s an easy hike from the parking lot, I have pics of us on our way home from a snowboard trip to Schweitzer Idaho sitting on them emulating cowboys. I did just read a text that someone has tagged them 🤬

    • @unclecoolie
      @unclecoolie  2 роки тому

      That's cool. When I'm driving these long drives, I always wonder about some of the things I see such as why they were placed there.

  • @trevertravis8963
    @trevertravis8963 2 роки тому +1

    Beautiful scenery.

    • @unclecoolie
      @unclecoolie  2 роки тому

      The snow makes it even nicer.

    • @trevertravis8963
      @trevertravis8963 2 роки тому +1

      @@unclecoolie I can only imagine. Born and raised in southern Arizona, I've never seen snow in person before.

    • @unclecoolie
      @unclecoolie  2 роки тому

      @@trevertravis8963 That's too bad. You have mountains not far from you that lots of snow that you should go see.

  • @ЯнЯнчилик
    @ЯнЯнчилик 2 роки тому +1

    another super video once again thank you so much for wishing you health and that you delight us with the next trips especially in real time good luck to you on new trips and you need to conquer Mexico I then I did not find practically trips around Mexico in real time tell this trip very different route from your trip from Washington to Seattle?

    • @unclecoolie
      @unclecoolie  2 роки тому +2

      Thank you! I'd love to drive into Mexico one day. It's just a matter of fitting it into my schedule, which is difficult. I do have another big road trip coming up in the next several weeks, though, that will be different than this road trip.

  • @riyadhalkhafaji202
    @riyadhalkhafaji202 2 роки тому +1

    Bozeman, Montana : 9:03:56

    • @unclecoolie
      @unclecoolie  2 роки тому

      I misspelled it and didn't catch it before uploading. The problem was that I misspelled it when I was going through the raw video and tagging the points of interest, so I didn't realize during editing that the name was spelled wrong.

  • @bonketshwane98
    @bonketshwane98 2 роки тому +1

    made it to the first pit stop... that was one hell of a driving bro.... kept on checking your speed haha, wow. I'll resume later with the trip😁

    • @unclecoolie
      @unclecoolie  2 роки тому +1

      I usually drive within the speed limits or within 5 MPH over, unless I'm with a lot of traffic that's going faster.

    • @bonketshwane98
      @bonketshwane98 2 роки тому +1

      @@unclecoolie We can be friends then lol, are you driving a Murano?

    • @unclecoolie
      @unclecoolie  2 роки тому +1

      @@bonketshwane98 Okay. 👍I was driving a 2021 Chrysler Voyager that I rented from Seattle and dropped off at Dulles Airport at the end.

  • @RoadsOfAsiaBen
    @RoadsOfAsiaBen 2 роки тому +4

    Great drive! Wow I wasn't expected you upload this video in real time this fast. When will you upload hyper-time lapse like you did Washington DC to Seattle, WA state few years ago?

    • @unclecoolie
      @unclecoolie  2 роки тому

      Thanks. I started editing the real time version right after I finished with the time lapse and before I uploaded it. The real time versions are much easier as nearly all of the points of interest and graphic overlays are already done for the time lapse version. It's just a matter of a fresh export from Virb and new map overlay. I have another big trip coming up, and I'll upload a hyper lapse sometime after I finish with that trip.

  • @4circuit
    @4circuit 2 роки тому +1

    Thank you from Spokane WA!

  • @carlosvargas6970
    @carlosvargas6970 2 роки тому +1

    I'm at home on my laptop watching... at 78 years old, that's pretty much all I can do now a days. I certainly can not drive 75 miles an hour in icy mountain ranges (the cascades?). Am sitting along on this one.

    • @unclecoolie
      @unclecoolie  2 роки тому

      I actually watch these videos myself.

  • @okell8319
    @okell8319 2 роки тому

    Counties Travelled Through:
    Washington:
    1. King (Seattle)
    2. Kittitas
    3. Grant
    4. Adams
    5. Lincoln
    6. Spokane
    Idaho:
    1. Kootenai
    2. Shoshone
    Montana:
    1. Mineral
    2. Missoula
    3. Granite
    4. Powell
    5. Deer Lodge
    6. Silver Bow
    7. Jefferson
    8. Broadwater
    9. Gallatin
    10. Park
    11. Sweet Grass
    12. Stillwater
    13. Yellowstone (Billings)

  • @HyperActive7
    @HyperActive7 2 роки тому +1

    From Seattle to Billings is pretty and I always enjoy seeing video of Snoqualmie and Coure D' Elane area and around Missoula to Butte ( I know, I find myself saying butt too) .

    • @unclecoolie
      @unclecoolie  2 роки тому +1

      I agree. I also called it "butt." 😊

  • @Alex-di3wx
    @Alex-di3wx 2 роки тому +2

    Final you back now where you been you not post 5 months what happened! You drive January 21 2022 to 821 miles Seattle Washington to Billings MT! by the way nice video to! I appreciate you thanks for the update!

    • @unclecoolie
      @unclecoolie  2 роки тому

      Thanks. I was busy remodeling my house and traveling to Kenya the last 2 months of 2021.

  • @thestarktrekkie
    @thestarktrekkie 2 роки тому +1

    hello, would it be possible to make a trip from St Louis to Tucson in x1 speed (several parts or not that I don't care). In any case, thank you for your videos, it's incredible, it makes me travel to American regions unknown to me.

    • @unclecoolie
      @unclecoolie  2 роки тому +1

      Thank you! I don't know about that exact route anytime in the near future. I do have more trips planned that will likely pass through Arizona later this year, but I'll see.

  • @wandabryantsmith2004
    @wandabryantsmith2004 2 роки тому +1

    My favorite part of the trip was Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. It is beautiful. That lake is huge! Thanks, Uncle Coolie!

    • @unclecoolie
      @unclecoolie  2 роки тому

      I agree. That was my favorite part of this day's drive too.

  • @g3t4c5allycia_
    @g3t4c5allycia_ 2 роки тому +1

    Montana is really neat, I drove this way in August 2011 .

    • @g3t4c5allycia_
      @g3t4c5allycia_ 2 роки тому +1

      Washington state to Alabama and it was nice drive .

    • @unclecoolie
      @unclecoolie  2 роки тому

      Oftentimes, the scenery is boring on the interstates, but this was very pleasant, especially the snow on the mountains.

  • @sandeshts9190
    @sandeshts9190 2 роки тому +2

    Great! What Dashcam do you use to get such long durations of High quality footage?

    • @unclecoolie
      @unclecoolie  2 роки тому +2

      Thanks! I've been using the Garmin Virb Ultra 30 with 512 GB micro SD card. With that size card, I can get more than 16 hours' worth of UHD video. I back up the video onto an external hard drive each night.

  • @AridersLifeYT
    @AridersLifeYT 2 роки тому +1

    Hello, can i ask what camera you are using and what app to get the gps data. i plan to complete my 2nd trip around australia in a few months 16,000km and would like to share the same experience.

    • @unclecoolie
      @unclecoolie  2 роки тому +1

      I used the Garmin Virb Ultra 30, which records GPS information. I use a 512 GB micro SD card, which records about 16 hours' worth of UHD-30fps video. I brought my MacBook with a 5 TB external hard drive to back up the video each night. The Virb software extracts the GPS data and puts whatever the user wants on the video and exports the video. I then create all of the graphic overlays separately and do all of the editing with Final Cut Pro. The camera does also have a way to record the temperature using an external sensor, but the sensor would not work in the car, so I simply wrote down the temperature that the car showed it to be on a piece of paper about every 15-30 minutes. I'm working on editing a new road trip video of a trip that I did last month, and then I may make a how-to video of how I make my videos. However, if you have any questions, let me know.

    • @AridersLifeYT
      @AridersLifeYT 2 роки тому

      @@unclecoolie thankyou so much

    • @AridersLifeYT
      @AridersLifeYT 2 роки тому +1

      @@unclecoolie I tried a simulation setup using my gopro hero 7 black and it would constantly overheat. I remedied that by having the front air-conditioning on slightly but the video wasn't consistent and it was infuriating. So I'm currently experimenting with a 4k camcorder

    • @unclecoolie
      @unclecoolie  2 роки тому +1

      @@AridersLifeYT Back in 2018 when I bought my Garmin, I did several comparisons with other cameras, including the GoPro. The one thing that I found, even back then, was complaints about overheating. I can say that, for the most part, I've not had overheating issues with the Garmin. The two times that I did have overheating issues (Jacksonville, Florida - January 2021 and Texas - March 2022), I remedied by either using a backup Garmin (yes, I have a 2nd Garmin Virb Ultra 30 with a separate micro SD card in case), or turning down the passenger sun visor (or driver visor in your case, since you're from Australia--a country that drives on the right-side of the car) and turning up the AC and pointing the right side vents upward toward the right-side visor. Otherwise, the only complaints that I have with the Garmin are: the occasional dropout with the GPS information; and some of the apps not working, such as the header (which should be 100%, given that the GPS location has very accurate).

  • @bazukamimi5721
    @bazukamimi5721 2 роки тому

    Very cool for bringing sleep

  • @jaimegutierrez5400
    @jaimegutierrez5400 2 роки тому +1

    Often an accident at the entrance of Bozeman, I hope that everything will be in a scare, greetings from Spain

    • @unclecoolie
      @unclecoolie  2 роки тому +1

      That was pretty bad. Greetings from Virginia.

  • @zapfanzapfan
    @zapfanzapfan 2 роки тому +3

    Why do I hear "East Bound And Down" playing in my head 🙂

    • @unclecoolie
      @unclecoolie  2 роки тому +1

      LOL. I was actually thinking of that movie at times while I was doing this drive.

    • @zapfanzapfan
      @zapfanzapfan 2 роки тому +2

      @@unclecoolie No Buford T Justice chasing you I hope 😉

    • @unclecoolie
      @unclecoolie  2 роки тому +1

      @@zapfanzapfan Nope. 😊

  • @willdowns1745
    @willdowns1745 2 роки тому +1

    I missed driving by you on I-90 by about 2 hours!

    • @unclecoolie
      @unclecoolie  2 роки тому

      Oh, wow. Maybe you saw a blue Chysler Voyager with California plates driving by and didn't know it.

    • @willdowns1745
      @willdowns1745 2 роки тому

      Maybe haha!! How was driving through that snow storm?

    • @unclecoolie
      @unclecoolie  2 роки тому

      @@willdowns1745 Lol. It wasn't bad. Fortunately, the snow mostly blew around and didn't stick much.

  • @dianaelaine1676
    @dianaelaine1676 2 роки тому +3

    Did you stop at all for rest, bathroom, food or drink? I don’t know how you could stay awake and alert, driving straight through. 🙀

    • @unclecoolie
      @unclecoolie  2 роки тому +3

      I stop about every 2 hours or so on average. I try to combine rest room stops with gas stops when I can, but sometimes I just have to stop to check my directions, or to clean the windshield, like what I had to do often while driving through Wisconsin.

  •  2 роки тому +1

    I am from Turkey, İf possible I want to learn how can you show the map and the real time datas on the video?

    • @unclecoolie
      @unclecoolie  2 роки тому

      I will make a video like that one day. I just got back from another road trip that I will be working on after I get Day 2 uploaded, in the meantime.

    •  2 роки тому

      @@unclecoolie what about the maps?

    • @unclecoolie
      @unclecoolie  2 роки тому

      @ The white routing line is generated by the Virb software that the Garmin Ultra 30 uses, but I create the outlined map overlay myself showing the states.

  • @possum303
    @possum303 Рік тому +1

    5:31:08

  • @ЮрийМихеев-у7у
    @ЮрийМихеев-у7у 2 роки тому +1

    Вы будете выкладывать остальные части поездки в реальном времени (третий и четвертый дни)?

    • @unclecoolie
      @unclecoolie  2 роки тому

      Eventually. I'm not happy with the quality of the video from days 3 and 4. I'll post those after I finish my Texas-Virginia videos.

  • @OmarRukaia
    @OmarRukaia 2 роки тому +2

    amazing , what camera do you use?

    • @unclecoolie
      @unclecoolie  2 роки тому +1

      Thanks! I use the Garmin Virb Ultra 30, which records GPS information.

    • @OmarRukaia
      @OmarRukaia 2 роки тому

      @@unclecoolie Thanks for the reply, I will buy one in the future

  • @cathybenadaro
    @cathybenadaro 2 роки тому +1

    Nice time to detox from Seattle.I am watching from Bellingham.

  • @viewsonic2613
    @viewsonic2613 2 роки тому +1

    thanks you

  • @EnvloyGaming
    @EnvloyGaming 2 роки тому +1

    Waiting for 4K 60 FPS, epic video anyway, congrats :P

    • @unclecoolie
      @unclecoolie  2 роки тому

      Thanks. My camera only records in 30fps, but I'll be uploading a hyper-lapse version of this video in 60fps. I could do the 4x time lapse in 60fps, but the project file at 30fps nearly takes up my 2 TB hard drive and forever to export as it is. Perhaps, smaller road trips will get the 60fps treatment when I edit in the future.

    • @EnvloyGaming
      @EnvloyGaming 2 роки тому

      @@unclecoolie Thanks for the relply man, and thanks for the informations. Waiting for other videos. :P

    • @unclecoolie
      @unclecoolie  2 роки тому

      @@EnvloyGaming Anytime!

  • @JoeBobTarheel
    @JoeBobTarheel 2 роки тому +1

    what kind of car do you usually drive on these cross country trips?

    • @unclecoolie
      @unclecoolie  2 роки тому

      Any full size car, but I've discovered that I like minivans the most because they usually have the shortest hoods, which make for more of the road to be seen in the video. I drove a Chrysler Voyager for this trip.

  • @hoghat58
    @hoghat58 2 роки тому +1

    Just started this one, where is the ending for this trip?

    • @unclecoolie
      @unclecoolie  2 роки тому

      This day was Billings, Montana, but this whole trip ended in Virginia just outside of Washington, DC.

  • @navinchakra7717
    @navinchakra7717 2 роки тому +1

    Great video tnks

  • @tudorjason
    @tudorjason 2 роки тому +1

    12:18 - And if you'll look to your right, you'll see the headquarters for T-Mobile USA.

    • @unclecoolie
      @unclecoolie  2 роки тому

      I didn't realize that, but I know the Seattle area has a lot of HQs. Where I was staying (Pan Pacific), had several Amazon buildings within a few blocks of the hotel. Incredible.

  • @Joeman7791
    @Joeman7791 2 роки тому +1

    How long does it usually take you to edit these types of videos?

    • @unclecoolie
      @unclecoolie  2 роки тому +3

      It takes me more than 40 hours to do the first time lapse version of a new trip. I have to first setup the GPS information and speed up the clips to 400% and export from Virb. Then I have to go through the whole video and log the times of all of the points of interest (highway traveled on, county/state borders, etc.). Then I have to create all of the overlays needed (map overlays and highway signs and directions). I've also been tracking the temperatures separately while I do my drives now. Then I finally do the actual editing in Final Cut Pro. For big videos I edit the trip in sections due to the mass size of the files. I do a QC to find mistakes, and once I'm satisfied with the video, I run it through iMovie just to compress the video down enough to be within UA-cam's file size limit (used to be 128 GB, but now 256 GB) and upload.
      When I do the real time versions, I just have to re-export the video from Virb with the GPS configuration that I choose, but I don't have to take the time to speed up the clips. Also, all of the points of interests are listed, as well as all of the map overlays. The only extra thing I have to do is create new map overlay(s) and take the times of the points of interest and multiplying by 4. That's why it's a lot less work for me to do the real time versions once I have already done the time lapse version.
      One day I will make a how-to video of how I create these videos.

  • @keeleyshaffer1317
    @keeleyshaffer1317 2 роки тому

    Did you take any BREAKS? For bathroom, food or ANYTHING else?

  • @be236
    @be236 2 роки тому +1

    Are these trips for business/work or vacation/pleasure?

    • @unclecoolie
      @unclecoolie  2 роки тому +4

      Mostly pleasure, but this trip coincided with a business trip I made to Seattle early that week. I just decided to take the opportunity to drive back to Virginia instead of flying instead. I have another business trip coming up for which I'm doing the same thing.

  • @daniel4655
    @daniel4655 2 роки тому +1

    9:03:57 - Bozeman not Bozoman😉

    • @unclecoolie
      @unclecoolie  2 роки тому +1

      Correct. I try to watch through my finished videos before uploads to try to catch mistakes, but there are always a few that I miss.

  • @robaldridge6505
    @robaldridge6505 2 роки тому +1

    Big Timber in the middle of the night...

  • @rafdes
    @rafdes 2 роки тому +1

    yaaaaayyyyyy

  • @powdertrax9742
    @powdertrax9742 2 роки тому +1

    I must have had my smellivision on my iPad, once you were out of the Seattle city limits the smell of pee went away

    • @unclecoolie
      @unclecoolie  2 роки тому

      Haha. I can tell you that I did a lot of walking around in the downtown Seattle while I was there the rest of the week before doing this trip, and I smelled pee a lot. I frequently saw tents on sidewalks and in parks, despite being cold and rainy the whole week. The morning of this trip was the mildest it had been all week.

  • @tudorjason
    @tudorjason 2 роки тому

    Do you know if you have ever caught something outrageous on your dashcam, like a car accident or a fist fight or a car driving off the road?

    • @unclecoolie
      @unclecoolie  2 роки тому +3

      I've seen some bad accidents, but they happened before I got there. I did get some close calls, and witnessed someone getting pulled over for speeding. Otherwise, just usually shenanigans from different drivers, such as making a right turn from the left lane, etc. I've considered doing a compilation video of all of the incidents that I've witnessed in all of my driving.

  • @okell8319
    @okell8319 2 роки тому

    what kind of car do you drive?

    • @unclecoolie
      @unclecoolie  2 роки тому

      I drove a 2021 Chrysler Voyager that I rented from Seattle and dropped off at Dulles Airport at the end of this trip.

  • @tallybandz9
    @tallybandz9 2 роки тому +1

    i’ve done this drive 20 times now

  • @laperousse2138
    @laperousse2138 2 роки тому +1

    Thanks 🙏 lot
    Thanks too much
    I will share and like 👍 too much

  • @MeatballCereal
    @MeatballCereal 2 роки тому

    What camera do you use?

  • @alex9046
    @alex9046 Місяць тому +1

    who rawdoggin this?

  • @emilynewsome3382
    @emilynewsome3382 2 роки тому +1

    Segestion LA to Maine

  • @juanantonio8547
    @juanantonio8547 2 роки тому +1

    good

  • @trocyzhang2177
    @trocyzhang2177 2 роки тому

    I like this kind of video a lot.and I Want to record my trip as well. May I have the brand name of your carrecorder which could record map trace and speed in real time. I am a chinese and i wish to upload some roadtrip scenery of china.

    • @unclecoolie
      @unclecoolie  2 роки тому

      Thanks. I’ve been using the Garmin Virb Ultra 30 with a 512 GB micro SD card. I create my own graphic overlays, and I do the editing with Final Cut Pro.

    • @trocyzhang2177
      @trocyzhang2177 2 роки тому

      @@unclecoolie thx a lot.

  • @fordbarak8287
    @fordbarak8287 2 роки тому

    still Nissan SUV?

    • @unclecoolie
      @unclecoolie  2 роки тому +1

      No--this was done in a 2021 Chrysler Voyager.

  • @aaviadd
    @aaviadd 2 роки тому +1

    hello i see all wait to next

    • @unclecoolie
      @unclecoolie  2 роки тому

      I'll be uploading the next part in the next couple of weeks.

  • @finemusic1448
    @finemusic1448 2 роки тому +2

    if your car tire is punctured by a nail... you will cry

  • @Jaquxan
    @Jaquxan 2 роки тому

    christmas story's place Holand MT

    • @unclecoolie
      @unclecoolie  2 роки тому

      Wasn't that movie filmed in Cleveland and Ontario?

    • @willdowns1745
      @willdowns1745 2 роки тому +1

      @@unclecoolie It was. The house is in Cleveland's Tremont neighborhood, specifically

    • @unclecoolie
      @unclecoolie  2 роки тому +1

      @@willdowns1745 I was within 10 miles of that house during this drive. But since it was dark, and I was pressed to get back home by the following Monday afternoon, I had to skip seeing it. I'll make another trip to the area to see it eventually, though.

    • @willdowns1745
      @willdowns1745 2 роки тому +1

      @@unclecoolie They’ll probably start doing tours to the public again soon. My grandparents did the tour some years ago and the actor who played Scott Farkus was the tour guide

    • @unclecoolie
      @unclecoolie  2 роки тому

      @@willdowns1745 Awesome! Did he really have yellow eyes? 😆

  • @eugenioayricko540
    @eugenioayricko540 2 роки тому +1

    Im love a street

  • @Ethyro
    @Ethyro Рік тому +1

    Fun fact: elevation peaked at 5058 feet

    • @unclecoolie
      @unclecoolie  Рік тому

      Actually, it's Homestake Pass, 6,329 feet (at 8:09:05 in the video). The GPS is reading the elevation a little low, but that was the highest point and continental divide of this whole trip, even to Washington, DC.

  • @alonzojones3323
    @alonzojones3323 2 роки тому +1

    Dream

  • @sandeshts9190
    @sandeshts9190 2 роки тому +1

    Seattle..the King of Microsoft 😍 but terrible climate for a South Indian like me 😑

    • @unclecoolie
      @unclecoolie  2 роки тому

      King of Amazon, too, as half of the buildings where I stayed were Amazon's. I agree that the weather there is lousy. I remember reading that suicides are highest in the Seattle area than anywhere else in the U.S., and likely that's due to the seemingly endless overcast and rainy weather.

  • @Jaquxan
    @Jaquxan 2 роки тому +1

    Worm or snake

  • @leesweets4110
    @leesweets4110 2 роки тому

    Why in the heck would you do this?

  • @frankihatch
    @frankihatch 2 роки тому

    More real time videos

    • @unclecoolie
      @unclecoolie  2 роки тому +1

      Day 2 will be uploaded late next week.

  • @MeowStationOrignal
    @MeowStationOrignal 2 роки тому +1

    It’s not safe to hog the middle lane.

    • @unclecoolie
      @unclecoolie  2 роки тому +1

      I tend to stay away from the rightmost lane when there are 3 or more lanes in areas that I don't know well, because too often the rightmost lane ends as an exit only.

    • @MeowStationOrignal
      @MeowStationOrignal 2 роки тому

      @@unclecoolie okay that’s interesting, thanks for the reply.

  • @ryksorensen496
    @ryksorensen496 2 роки тому +1

    Billings Montana? Montana is great! The former seattle? Get a BIG DOZER! Let them dozer it first before walking on the ground. Yeah TEAM INSLEE!

  • @JackyVSO
    @JackyVSO 2 роки тому +1

    I had to skip the last 2,5 hrs of this ngl

    • @unclecoolie
      @unclecoolie  2 роки тому +1

      The biggest problem with January road trips, especially in northern states, is the short daylight.

  • @iCrapBubbles
    @iCrapBubbles 2 роки тому +1

    He’s here with the goods. Time from a ride through the rockies!