You know what’s cool about America ? We have different neighborhoods with different nationalities and we get to eat different foods from different countries
@56kwith200ping
11 ай бұрын
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.
@Vinnytint2
11 ай бұрын
@@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
@Rockhound6165
11 ай бұрын
Sometimes along the same street.
@Vinnytint2
11 ай бұрын
@@Rockhound6165 yes you can call one block the United Nations 😂😂Chinese Jamaican West Indian Italian on one block literally
@Naplesfrank154
11 ай бұрын
@@Vinnytint2 yo Vinny, this is Frankie from Jersey. 🇮🇹🇺🇸😃
@TJ-Travler
11 ай бұрын
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! 🇺🇲❤🇺🇲❤🇺🇲
@Ahzpayne
10 ай бұрын
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.
@willcool713
10 ай бұрын
That's the great American experiment, for sure. I'm not sure we can say we do it well, but we definitely try.
@gryphon9507
9 ай бұрын
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.
@KNETTWERX
11 ай бұрын
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.
@trillspilltx6628
7 ай бұрын
Keep on trucking driver... Safe travels!
@dhoffman1972
11 ай бұрын
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!!❤️
@kevinbrown3075
11 ай бұрын
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.
@dhoffman1972
11 ай бұрын
@@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 😋
@usafvet100
11 ай бұрын
Fayetteville, AR in the house! What was your point of origin?
@usafvet100
11 ай бұрын
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!😁😁😁😁
@dhoffman1972
11 ай бұрын
@@usafvet100Springdale here...lol. But I've lived in Fayetteville at one time....
@tobycatVA
11 ай бұрын
I am so impatient (remarkably over-psyched) for YNZF to get home safe and tell us all about their trip. ✈
@SusanBullockUberGrams
10 ай бұрын
I second that ❤
@marksmith4582
11 ай бұрын
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.
@lapetitemaison4219
11 ай бұрын
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!
@Kenobi_Cowboy
11 ай бұрын
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.
@48stars68
11 ай бұрын
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!
@twobitsandpepper8235
8 ай бұрын
@@lapetitemaison4219 Or the Amana colonies as well! It's like a time machine.
@bettyegilliam
10 ай бұрын
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
@nathanfitzgerald6651
9 ай бұрын
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.
@johnallen869
11 ай бұрын
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!
@proudmoon3
11 ай бұрын
Yes. You haven't really experienced America until you've been to small towns AND big cities.
@gmc9753
9 ай бұрын
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.
@andrewreimer9160
11 ай бұрын
As a Michigander, i'm glad to see Detroit style pizza mentioned. It's tragically underrepresented in the great US pizza debate 😊
@blakerichardson1519
11 ай бұрын
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.
@rg20322
11 ай бұрын
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.
@jmac7567
11 ай бұрын
@@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.
@alboyer6
11 ай бұрын
@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.
@ik7578
11 ай бұрын
@@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.
@GentleRain21
11 ай бұрын
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.
@proudmoon3
11 ай бұрын
Yes. Lots of roads named after churches & old businesses in my small Southern community, too!
@gwgux
11 ай бұрын
Yes, that's very common in my neck of the woods in the south too.
@sheram5949
10 ай бұрын
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.
@jeffhampton2767
11 ай бұрын
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 ❤🇺🇸👊🏻👊🏻
@HammerHed13
11 ай бұрын
Spot on, except gotta give the Brits credit for inventing Heavy Metal music.
@proudmoon3
11 ай бұрын
Grunge...Bluegrass...Little bit of everything here!
@dianefiske-foy4717
11 ай бұрын
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.
@moorek1967
11 ай бұрын
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.
@jeffhampton2767
11 ай бұрын
@@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.
@sarahlynnie2000
11 ай бұрын
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!
@dianefiske-foy4717
11 ай бұрын
Yeah, I like watching the Jolly channel.
@lisasharf1442
11 ай бұрын
I just saw that episode yesterday.
@chuck32504
11 ай бұрын
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!
@LancerX916
11 ай бұрын
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.
@allanboyer2769
11 ай бұрын
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.
@catw6998
11 ай бұрын
@@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. 🎉👍
@afcgeo882
10 ай бұрын
@@allanboyer2769Pizza was brought to the US in the late 1800s, not after WW2.
@RJ-mz3co
11 ай бұрын
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!
@donnacollins4511
11 ай бұрын
I love that 2 of my favorite KZitemrs are converging!😁❤️
@sugarkitty4777
11 ай бұрын
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.
@sray5415
11 ай бұрын
You should check out "colonial williamsburg" in VA when you're in the US.
@jennm3321
11 ай бұрын
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.
@geoffreysmommy
11 ай бұрын
When he showed the drive in my husband had flashbacks. He graduated high school in 1979. His first job was a drive in. Worked there three years. Got a few interesting stories. He hated going up to a car after everyone else left. To tell them they had to leave. No telling what he would see.
@sallyphillips9175
11 ай бұрын
After drive-ins fell out of favor in maybe the mid-70s, there were hardly any at all, but they've been experiencing a revival in popularity the past few years. I just turned 56 and have vague memories of going to a local drive-in in the early 70s as a toddler.
@poisonlady1965
11 ай бұрын
I grew up in small town (a little over 11000 people and still the same) that had a drive in. I graduated high school in 1984. They took it down within the last decade. I moved away almost ten years ago (from the nearby large city). I miss that but it had not been used in years and people kept trying to save it but did nothing.
@kimcat3760
11 ай бұрын
I also graduated in 1979 and I fondly remember drive ins. One of my first dates with my husband, who has now passed but we had 40 glorious years together🥰, was to a drive in. I borrowed my fathers car, which had bucket sets in front instead of the usual bench seat. The next day he just couldn’t figure why there was popcorn all over the back bench seat! Thanks for the memory recall😍
@LarryHatch
11 ай бұрын
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.
@dianefiske-foy4717
11 ай бұрын
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.
@jeffhampton2767
11 ай бұрын
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.
@dianefiske-foy4717
11 ай бұрын
@@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.
@jeffhampton2767
11 ай бұрын
@@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. 🤔
@dianefiske-foy4717
11 ай бұрын
@@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.
@jeffhampton2767
11 ай бұрын
@@dianefiske-foy4717 At least we have great memories. Now we travel through younger people on KZitem. 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. 🤔😂😂❤🍹🌹
@you_can_call_me_T
11 ай бұрын
I AM SOOO EXCITED TO SEE ALL OF YOUR POST VACATION CONTENT!! CAN'T WAIT!!
@you_can_call_me_T
11 ай бұрын
Yay! I won an internet scam!
@sandistolle4874
11 ай бұрын
All good on his list. Certainly you could string them together. Roadtrip to parks, theme parks and cozy diners on the way.
@timmccoy4875
11 ай бұрын
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.
@diannelavoie5385
11 ай бұрын
If you want to see the country, take to the surface roads and stay off the interstates. Use your GPS and go explore.
@3DJapan
11 ай бұрын
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.
@SilvanaDil
11 ай бұрын
We do sports and military stuff well, too. 😀
@tfodthogtmfof7644
10 ай бұрын
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!
@blackpowder99
11 ай бұрын
You guys are good example of why the internet made our world bigger and better ❤
@nathanfitzgerald6651
9 ай бұрын
Well said sir.
@michaelmcdermott209
11 ай бұрын
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
@joseph96345
11 ай бұрын
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.
@melvinsmiley5295
10 ай бұрын
That guy is funny. Nothing beats a good road trip with your music up loud, Sun Roof open…and clear roads ahead.
@laurelremington2056
11 ай бұрын
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!
@erianle123547
11 ай бұрын
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.
@mariuskoerenzig5180
11 ай бұрын
Cool video warm gettings from Germany
@Botoburst
11 ай бұрын
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.
@marilynmourdock3688
10 ай бұрын
Many Americans also love to go to church on Sunday mornings! ( often followed by a trip to a local Diner)
@donb7113
11 ай бұрын
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.
@brayerkh
11 ай бұрын
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.
@erniesteele3164
11 ай бұрын
Very much looking forward to your videos about your trip... Enjoy!
@samxf
11 ай бұрын
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
@3DJapan
11 ай бұрын
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.
@Kulanae
11 ай бұрын
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.
@raej1307
10 ай бұрын
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.
@kriswoods7051
10 ай бұрын
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!
@jenalee3648
11 ай бұрын
Back in the 80’s most cities re-numbered their addresses. For example, my childhood house number changed from 573 to 3431 with the same street name. Everybody’s house numbers changed. It seems the new number was based on how far away your house was from the center point of the city. For instance the smaller the number, the closer you are to the center. SO, there wouldn’t be 3 digit long house numbers on a street that was a certain distance away. Therefore a four digit number was farther away and a 5 digit number was always outside of the city (usually).
@charleywilkey9529
11 ай бұрын
Someone explained this to me a few decades ago and since then it all makes sense. lol
@bob_._.
11 ай бұрын
This is honestly the first I'm hearing of this; all the cities I've ever known have always used that scheme. Where were you living back then?
@michaelschemlab
11 ай бұрын
The first digit in a three-digit house number means that you’re that many miles away from the city center, or some other central location within the city.
@jenalee3648
11 ай бұрын
@@bob_._. a suburb of Columbus Ohio.
@jenalee3648
11 ай бұрын
It may have been the 1970’s, now that I think of it.
@cshubs
11 ай бұрын
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.
@melissahirner5525
10 ай бұрын
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!
@irishgrl
11 ай бұрын
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 😊
@njsanders
11 ай бұрын
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.
@lenalyles2712
11 ай бұрын
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.
@bartonbagnes4605
11 ай бұрын
They have regularly thought of adding bullet trains, but the cost for the distance has proved unsurmountable so far. There are passenger trains that aren't as fast though, like Amtrak.
@throughthoroughthought8064
10 ай бұрын
I think they're planning one from Chicago to Indianapolis.
@jimgreen5788
11 ай бұрын
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.
@sharonsimmons6427
11 ай бұрын
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.
@TheJudiBambiPurrsParadox
11 ай бұрын
*I love Lawrence from Lost in The Pond! Food, sports, and patriotism USA does do well. Sometimes overindulging in them.*
@DragonUdo
11 ай бұрын
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!!!
@paulvamos7319
11 ай бұрын
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! 😎👍
@bryanspindle4455
10 ай бұрын
I love soggy crust. I have broken teeth at least three times on hard pizza crust.
@paulvamos7319
10 ай бұрын
@@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! 🤣
@LDRight
10 ай бұрын
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! ✌🏻🇺🇸❤️
@WhipOutDaPowder
11 ай бұрын
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.
@charlesstuart8009
11 ай бұрын
I worked one summer in Kings Island back in the 80's. My bosses were two teen girls, 18 and 16!!
@CTBauer
10 ай бұрын
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).
@pamelabennett9057
10 ай бұрын
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.).
@Deedric_Kee
11 ай бұрын
8:45 . Exactly 👍🏼 . Southern home cooked food is the best. And yeah road trips are awesome here. Much respect and love you guys. 🇺🇲🙌🏼
@lynboxer2920
11 ай бұрын
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!!!
@acropolis2850
11 ай бұрын
That’s a great idea for a small theme park for the state of Kansas, for sure I will visit Wizard of OZ Park.
@arthurlara4282
8 ай бұрын
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
@arthurlara4282
8 ай бұрын
MTV even came there and filmed
@josiewalberg2263
11 ай бұрын
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 .
@billiam8554
11 ай бұрын
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!
@TheRedStateBlue
10 ай бұрын
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.
@fiona8781
10 ай бұрын
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).
@MrPreacherman75
11 ай бұрын
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.
@Cranky_old_white_guy
11 ай бұрын
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.
@jamesblake7338
11 ай бұрын
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!
@Gaminghour2018
11 ай бұрын
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.
@kbrewski1
11 ай бұрын
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.
@nooneyouknowhere6148
11 ай бұрын
Our house numbers start at 100. Usually count up by twos. Even side of street; 100, 102, 104...... odd side; 101, 103, 105.....
@newsguy5241
10 ай бұрын
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_beat_thief
11 ай бұрын
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.
@canoecatcher6294
9 ай бұрын
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
@wareagle9655
11 ай бұрын
As for the road names, you'll find: This street, That Street and the other street. Then in like Utah they are numbered per the position of Salt Lake City- N, S, W, E of the I-15/I80 corner. Such as [NSEW] 1-10,000 [NSEW] kinda different here. Then other places will have names like he said in the video.
@tommaxwell429
11 ай бұрын
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!
@poisonlady1965
11 ай бұрын
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!
@1mrmiyagee
11 ай бұрын
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!
@tyhaataja649
11 ай бұрын
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
@LisaApril
9 ай бұрын
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.
@larryfontenot9018
11 ай бұрын
Building numbers in the USA are typically three digits because of how streets are organized. Numbers under three digits only happen on streets that are one or two blocks long. For the majority, a city block gets a number based on how far it is from a dividing line between north, south, east and west. In other words, there may be a main street that divides north from south in the city, and the east and west streets that cross it will begin with 100, the next block will be 200, the next will be 300, and so on. The buildings on those blocks will begin with 101 and go up from there, starting from the building closest to Main Street on the south side. So the first building on the 100 block will be 101, the first building on the 200 block will be 201, and so on. I mentioned the first building on the south side, because the general rule is that even numbered buildings are on the north and west sides of streets, and odd numbers are on the south and east sides of streets. But that's the reason for building numbers being high. They aren't, really. The buildings have numbers that start at 1 and go up from there. What makes them high is that the blocks have their own numbers that are added to it.
@ToddWCorey1
10 ай бұрын
I live at 5 Ann St, Poland, Maine USA. Yes, the Poland where Poland Spring water comes from.
@blacksmithcowboy4725
10 ай бұрын
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.
@oldnumber5866
10 ай бұрын
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.
@ginagoad1100
9 ай бұрын
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.
@GetDougDimmadomed
10 ай бұрын
One of the greatest "theme parks" I've been to is the Iowa State Fair. It's such a great place, but I haven't been there in years. I still remember the food, it was absolutely incredible. Unfortunately, there aren't many trains. What we do have, and love to death is our old steam engines. Occasionally one of the big old steam girls will be brought out of storage for events and trips, such as the Union Pacific Big Boy #4014, and you can buy a seat onboard for a literal trip through time. I was on the final voyage of one of my area's steam engines before she was to be a static museum display. It was so sad seeing her go across the river without any cars, to her final resting place. I think they couldn't get some parts or something. That was 15 years ago. Thankfully, she's well kept and there's been talks of breaking her out again for old times sake. She's 130 years old and still wants to keep going.
@willcool713
10 ай бұрын
Generally for addresses, as a rule in the US, each "block" takes up 100 points on the address scale. One side of the street is all even numbers and the other side odd. And your house number corresponds roughly to the percentage along your block where your front door, driveway, or mailbox falls -- for instance, a house in the middle of the block might be XX50 or XX51, say. In my city, numbered avenues run perpendicular to streets, and all the address numbers get larger moving away from the central downtown area, addresses on streets corresponding to the intersecting numbered avenue. Many municipalities have similarly structured addresses. It makes navigating the city easier when there's a general layout. Here even the suburbs play along, so anywhere in the metro area you can always tell how many blocks east/west and north/south you are from the center of town -- which is a loose estimate, but a decent rough guide when you don't know the neighborhood -- just by checking a house number, anywhere. I guess we have metric addresses, kinda.
@TwistedSisler
10 ай бұрын
For the most part, in the US, the street addresses are numbered in accordance to their distance from the town center. Typically every hundred equals 1/10th of a mile away from the center of town, so 1200 Apple Street would be 1.2 miles from the town center.
@daricetaylor737
11 ай бұрын
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.
@proudmoon3
11 ай бұрын
So true. If the LDS are anything, they're organized!
@philipmcniel4908
11 ай бұрын
The thing about American street addresses is, they tend to be numbered by block. There will be some intersection downtown (often in a major commercial or office district) that will serve as the starting point for the numbering system, and the first block from it will be the "100 block," and the next will be the "200 block," and so on. So if your house has an address of, say, 1430 Walnut Avenue, it means you're around 14 blocks from the center of town. (Some house numbers in more rural areas get up to 5 digits, and some small towns use larger house numbers; I'm not really sure where they come up with those except that I'm told some rural properties apparently have house numbers based on their latitude and/or longitude). p.s. Usually, even-numbered addresses are on one side of the street and odd-numbered ones are on the other side!
@aprilvoecks5877
10 ай бұрын
One thing that contributes to the long house numbers is that the houses are NOT numbered sequentially outside the city. The numbers increase by distance. So you might have 2 houses a fair distance apart that have house numbers 100 or more apart.
@user-mv4be1tc2u
11 ай бұрын
As far as Entertainment, I must say my favorite sitcom of all time is an import from our neighbors to the north, "Corner gas" in my opinion the funniest ever
@strix.1
11 ай бұрын
We do have a plethora of amusement & theme parks! I used to travel ALL OVER the country going to these parks because I loved roller coasters...and working at one I had friends in high places that got me into a few parks and behind the scene tours of their operations. Luckily back then, it was more affordable, I mean I had a Disney annual pass for about 15-years...you have to take a loan out to get one today. Now I just go to National Parks...nothing like camping among the Giant Sequoias and Redwoods!
@TomZ23
11 ай бұрын
I like deep-dish pizza on occasion, but the true Chicago pizza is the square-cut tavern-style pizza. There are so many local family-owned pizza restaurants that make amazing thin crust pizza.
@robertfrye5161
11 ай бұрын
I have traveled the world for over 20 years. I must agree with diners, there is something about a good diner that is hard to compare to other places. As for pizza, had it in the birthplace of Naples, and all over the Us. I grew up with the thin crust style and for the longest time did not embrace other styles. There was a place that made Sicilian style every Sunday on special order, and my Sicilian great grandmother made it a few times a year, but what I didn't like as a child was the garlic that was raw in the sauce. However there is a place in New jersey that makes pizza from his region of Italy, thick crust, but it is the process. His dough takes 3 days to make, all his cheeses are local made, the flour is imported and non GMO, and his tomatoes for the sauce are imported as well. My Gf is not a fan of tomato sauce, will eat the pizza from there and we have leftovers which she eats cold for breakfast. Chicago and Detroit style are nowhere near this pizza. I have a friend with a address of 7 XYZ street. As for our foods there are some very interesting combinations of area foods and fusion foods. Foods that are native/created in the American area are potatoes(South America), pop corn, sausage and biscuits, deep fried anything (pickles, Twinkies, candy bars), poutine(Canadian), barbeque, chili etc
@robertstillwell8638
11 ай бұрын
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.
@decolonizeEverywhere
11 ай бұрын
American Street numbers are confusing unless you know how they work. Each block is giving its own number so the first block on the street would be the single digits starting with one, but house numbers on the next block will start in the 100, and the next block after that we'll start in the 200s. And actually makes it easier to find which block you're looking for if the numbers just aren't in a straight line. You can find a house on the 500 block by going five blocks down and then looking on that pot.
@cynthiaoconnor7185
11 ай бұрын
Re: road trips and winding roads. Try Route 66! Here in Oklahoma Rte. 66 often winds near our big highways, but with prettier views and fewer cars. Me and my friends used to take 66 from Shawnee, where our college was, to Oklahoma City just to relax. Hope you enjoy your visit here. BTW, if you want to try Cracker Barrel for a meal, do it fast. They are closing ALL of the Cracker Barrels soon.
@tinahairston6383
11 ай бұрын
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.
@bigernmacrackin6176
11 ай бұрын
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.
@MrDEWaters
10 ай бұрын
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.
@sueannebarnette2751
10 ай бұрын
Your family is so very precious!!! I just came across your videos, and I am starting from the beginning and watching them! #somanylaughs #loveyouguys 😍
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