I live in Columbia SC but I daytrip to Charleston all the time. The Freeway system in the Charleston Metro is the best in SC. And the way you captured the lights and the factories of North Charleston Is exactly what I love to see at night. Thanks for this video as an alternative to the google maps I use daily to get away from time to time. New subscriber.

Who needs a mountain when you have architecture like THAT! The bridges, enhanced by a blaze-red sun set, are amazing!

I just can’t stop watching this nice video

WOW! that sunset crossing the bridge with Miles Davis playing literally gave me chills and goosebumps! WELL DONE, SIR!

Spectacular and artful. Makes Charleston look like a magical place indeed!

Ravenel Bridge is a beautiful bridge. It has become one of the state’s landmarks since it was built. I can’t wait when I get my photography camera and go down there to take photos of it at night. It beautiful at sunset when it is lit up. Sometimes I wish I lived in Charleston just see that bridge on a daily basis (I lived in Columbia SC).

This may be one of your best videos so far, Jim. I've been watching this thing over and over and over again since you've posted it. Thank you so much for the ride, and it never gets old going over that mesmerizing bridge (which may be one of my personal favorites of all time). I have been to Charleston myself this past summer, and filmed both the Arthur Ravannel Jr. Bridge and the I-526 Bridge in both directions, and much much more. It may be a while until all of it is on my channel, but I will see what I can do. Going Southbound on the Ravannel Bridge on US 17, I got some good sunlight as the sun was getting close to being in the sunset phase, but it couldn't compare at all to the sunset footage that you got. I cannot tell you just how amazing of an experience it was riding through the night in such a beautiful city, and listening to the easy, elegant music from Miles Davis. Throughout, the video, that sunset was unbeatable. Sorry for the rant, but I just can't stop talking about how much I love this video!!!

I was stationed in Charleston from the mid 80s to the early 90s and I remember sailing under the old Cooper River bridges and the many speeding tickets earned on 26 and 526. Great seeing Charleston again. Thanks Jim - awesome video!

I can't get enough of watching this video, your music selection, and cinematography is just simply awesome!!

Whoa what a beautiful sunset! I wish I could move to Atlanta, Charlotte, New Orleans, Miami and Charleston area because those cities are Beautiful! Especially sunsets... Great video jim!

Great music at the beginning!!!

This video will never get old, still get goose bumps while I am watching it.Crossing the (Ravenel bridge at night, just enhance its beauty....

That bridge is a thing of beauty! Excellent video.

Brilliant video. Best of the trip. Many thanks for posting.

Thanks, spent a lot of time there in the 80's have not been there since the new bridge. Remember the old double bridges it replaced. Pretty downtown but hot and humid in the summer. Thanks for sharing most impressive.

My hometown !!!!! You are such an amazing driver & photograper ! Very nice video ! I love the Charleston area !

I-26 is a magical little road: pretty cool views in Columbia, but on either end you've got the incredible views in the mountains of Tennessee and North Carolina, then to the east you have Charleston and it's wonderful bridges. Having said that, be thankful the Ravenel Bridge is there now, because crossing the old Cooper River Bridges was a dicey adventure. It wasn't so bad on the "new" bridge heading north, with three lanes and a bit more space - still a scary feeling, but reasonably OK. The southbound "old" bridge though? Yikes... two narrow lanes, nothing between you and the Almighty but rusted out railing, and engineers worrying that the bridge was no longer safe to travel on to keep you company while you prayed to make it across in high winds. Naturally I was in a tour bus crossing most of the time.

(3) dislikes, what sane person wouldn't enjoy this experience? this ride is fun, exciting, exhilarating, relaxing, with non stop aww affect!!! this is one of my most favorite videos that I enjoy viewing time after time! With total sincerity, I appreciate you devoting yourself to making such wonderful videos, such as this one Jim!!! AWESOME DUDE!!!!!!!!

Gotta tell you, crossing that huge Ravenel Bridge in South Carolina is almost like going up,up,up towards the sky seeing far away like more City lights and power plants. Hope that you keep on making those trips successful and safe and be careful. Peace!

Hey Jim, I have to comment on your video again, The aww affect on stage (4) simply will not dissipate, each time I watch this video, the excitement and anticipation of the ride across the Ravenal Bridge remains highly for me, your musical track (Simply Red-Sunshine) has a lot to do with it, I envision myself sitting in the passenger seat enjoying the experience first hand, your a genius and I am glad I found your videos because they help me to alleviate stress, this video is marked no.# 1 on my play list.... Thanks again!!!!! :-)

I appreciated the selection of video and music, editing. The videos correspond to musical accents. ...descents, turns .. Very good.

Jim, my Daughter and best friend both live in Charleston, and THANK YOU for "nailing this down", so to speak! Great music and video both!!! We get down once a year, and this was just awesome! We haven't seen a bad one yet from you Jim, and thanks for another great year! Safe travels and good health to you!

I like the Bridges & the Sunset View and the Night time drive with the Jazz music was good!

quite an amazing city! its so beautiful!

The sunset is break taking it's so gorgeous !!!

i lived in charleston / james island back in the late 90's. i miss living there. good video, thanks dialing up some good memories for me. cheers.

Checked this out shortly before my recent trip to Charleston to get an idea of what to look for from a "Roadgeek" perspective. Excellent!

That sunset was... uau! And it always go along fine with some jazz music! Nice one Jim!

Nice! I love watching your videos, I'm going to keep riding along with you every chance I get.

Great music choice with Miles Davis when crossing the Ravenel Bridge

Lots of pretty views in this area. The roads look nice too. Feel some inspiration coming on

That was very nice... go Charleston! that ride exceeded my expectations lol

I've got a couple of these videos myself, a daytime and nighttime Ravenel...kids screaming in the back, music blaring...you're right it is thrilling. Thank you for your perspective, it's lovely :)

Hello from the upstate part of SC. Here in Landrum (Spartanburg County).

I love the bridge and it's a excellent video

Adam K and Soha followed by Miles Davis is such a strange combo but they're both great and worked quite well for this video! Nice work, and that sunset must have been amazing in real life. Thank you for sharing!

Nice work with the video! Perfect lighting. Charleston was always my favorite scenario on SimCity. I've been interested in it ever since.

Charleston looks bigger than I expected. During the morning, there was some traffic on the bridge and I-26. It may not be NYC or LA, but it definitely have a big city look expect that it doesn't have a true downtown.

Great bridges and images!

11:17 now that is an intriguing sight - red stoplights against the backdrop of an unbelieveably awesome fire-red sunset

Thanks for a great ride, Jim, with a great soundtrack, to boot. We're going to be in that general area next Monday for the solar eclipse.

Very cool- and you made the sunset work for you with the bridges, timing- very nice! Well worth waiting to see when I could sit, enjoy the video and all! I am very happy I got to see it tonight- the Ravenal bridge is one I want to check out myself- lol- very enjoyable to watch! You have made sunsets, dusks to dark and weather work for you in your vids lately- makes for must-see videos! Charleston is one of the cities on my list to check out for many reasons and all- so this gives me a bit a preview!

That's cool I can tell you put a lot into the video great music choices also.

Note to self : add 17 - 14 to favorites. I am so glad that you appreciate the industrial zones of a metropolitan area. This vid was the second time you mentioned it as being special. I thought for sure that I was a bit weird for that same appreciation. For me, It started just E. of Chicago, in Indiana on I 94. Union Carbide. Nothing but pipes, tanks and bright lights.13 yrs. old

Beautiful video of my hometown! ONE of these days when the city council members stop arguing about who’s on first and what’s on second, they may actually finish the Mark Clark!!

I'm the 3030th viewer sorry I'm late to catch and your commentary last night. Let me just say it was worth the wait for your presentation was very factual, as well as entertaining, well done.

Damnn!!! that sunset though

The view of the harbor from there is the best

Thanks its beautyful sunset,of course the video ah... the music too.

Very cool! One of my good friends called Charleston home during college.

You really had some serious wow factors in there Jim! I really like the sunset the best! It was beautiful! I've seen that sunset outside of my house before.

Nice video and music I want to go to Charleston someday

Very nice ride Jim. Enjoyed it.

awesome video

Great video, jim. As I was born in Charleston, I was there to see the demolition of the Grace Mem bridge..and it was worth it, Ravannel bridge is simply amazing. But I live in Savannah now.

Jim, I would love to say, this is my most favorite video, but I know according to your workmanship, you have something that will be even more jaw dropping, but the visual affects are outstanding.. keep on trucking!

Blessed country

That was cool getting to see Charleston. Hey you clinched I-526!

Nice video. Good jobs. I 'm living in Central Africa particulary in Congo B. I like your video because I discover the America (sorry for my english)

man i miss charleston

I don't know if (KZfaq) give an accurate account of how many people watch your video, but I am certain it should have counted at least two dozen times I have watched this one! It is still mesmerizing, the thrill and excitement does not dissipate!! (Still one of my favorites!) looking forward to 2018 videos Jim!!

That sunset was amazing! I guess you liked that "little" bridge a lot.

Nice job Jim and your cameraman Erik for producing this video. Regarding I-26 it's the main interstate that links Charleston,SC to the Appalachian Mountains in Tennessee North Carolina state line and for US-17 in the Charlestown,SC area my guess it was recently rebuilt around 1999-2005/2010

oh cool. I think near the beginning that's the same section of road that Socarboy recorded at night, sent to me, and let me edit. Nice to see it going the other way and in daylight to boot :-D. That's a fine looking bridge!

Good drive !

That bridge reminds me of that bridge from La Porte and Baytown TX

I like that song! "Twilight"

My thoughts when you said "serious wow factor ahead": -Mmm I wonder if he means this pretty cool flyover (4 seconds later) -DAYUM WHAT A BRIDGE!

I remember riding that bridge with my mom to my doctors appointments at MUSC.

My home town

Also, it's unfortunate that I-526 is incomplete. It saddens me greatly, but hopefully they may be able to do it in the future. I'm sure the absence of Interstate 526 on Johns and James Islands causes traffic and efficient transportation problems on some of the surface roads in that area. On my Charleston trip this past summer, I went to the beach at Kiawah Island, and I think it would have been a lot easier to get there if I-526 is finished. But oh well, while inconvenient for now, it is a bit of rich interstate history, but I hope it can be fixed and finished in the future for the good of transportation.

I love watching your videos, they are interesting to follow and the views are amazing. Have you ever driven on the motorways here in the UK ?

Next to the video socarboy did of Charleston roads at night, this vid is right up there with that one. Although I like how socarboy also filmed some of the local Charleston roads at night, which you seem to be less into and more into expressways. That's okay, I still enjoyed how you timed it perfectly with the sunset. And the choice of the song Summertime by Miles Davis for part 3, was great! BTW if you like bridges a lot and in case you ever get up to Burlington, VT or northern NY(like say I-87 near Plattsburgh), I'd strongly suggest going a little further and up to Montreal, Quebec. The bridges over the Saint Lawrence River are worth a look, and you'd enjoy filming those bridges.

Great Video do you ever have a problem driving over high bridges. I live in FL now all sudden at 52 bridges seem to bother now. thank you for your time.

Happy birthday

Don holt bridge over the coop is where they filmed that die hard with a vengeance scene where the guy gets cut in half by the wire

Happy anniversary birthday

Jim you got a lot of time on your hands for these videos? Great Video!

Hey I love this I never get to go but this... Awsome respond if u see dis

Yeah. I mean that bridge is more bigger than the Fred Hartman bridge in Baytown, Texas!

Suggestion for your next trip: perhaps a wintertime trip to New England to get snow-covered trees and forests?

Not 100% but I think I may've crossed one the original bridges when I was 8 with this "big whatever" at the time under construction right next to me... Any plans to upgrade any of those at-grade roads past this gargantuan 8 lane bridge to full freeway status? Heak, I was beginning to think the I-26 terminus should've been rebuilt to go along the bridge until they CLEARLY restriped the offramp to a lower capacity...

the bridges

Progressive House is the official music of freeway travel !!

Summertime. Miles Davis. R.I.P!

I'm here for the 19 minutes... let me watch lol

Hope you enjoyed some good seafood...Mount Pleasant has some of the best seafood on the Atlantic.

These are the Worst Freeway signs I ever seen in my Entire Life. Nice job on this Video 👍

At 4:12, you talkin' 'bout Mt. Pleasant. Ya' see, it doesn't mean mount, but it means ministers. There was a minister back'n the day that was really pleasant to deal with. So the name became Minister Pleasant. :-)

Love that first song, can't find it though

My dad is scared of driving over the Ravenel bridge

Freewayjim can you do a video of New Orleans, Louisiana just like this

Coming from downtown Charleston looks different not you should check it out and cool video

Plz do Nashville or Memphis

How Long Did You Travel For?

Thanks from Russia, Kaliningrad.

Wow, OMG, Wow!!! I think I am addicted to your videos... Stage (4), the grand finally, I had to move the curser back to 14:46 at least three times to continually keep that good vibe going when you cross the Ravenel Bridge.. Pardon my French but (Damn this is a good video)!! Please keep up the good work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

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