Texas is one of the few beautiful deserted places in America , also the stars at night

BTW for you pot smokers, there is an exit 420 and coincidentally the name of the exit is "Baker". The mile makers have been stolen.

i heard if you cross texas on i10 and youre with a friend and you two arent at each others throats by the end, that friendship will last forever.... and thats what the trip is like....

80 miles of absolute beauty, excellent as always. also love all those rock cuts, really shows the flow of the interstate through the land.

Cool video, its interesting how Texas changes from humid to desert as you go west, southeast meets southwest in Texas when it comes to terrain

Back when the speed limit was 55, people still drove 80 or even more, on this route. You rarely saw any cops, and back then, almost no traffic either. The last time I drove that route was from Junction to Balmorea, on my way to Alpine. Great trip, but it's like being on an alien planet out there! And you're right, you must take plenty of water especially if traveling in summer. I don't know how many people are familiar with this part of Texas, but if you get stranded in summer time, you will not survive without plenty of water. It is extremely HOT! At least during the day, then at night it's downright cold!

Made this drive over 100 times, so relaxing driving to El Paso and back to San Antonio/Austin, always have the stereo rockin, awesome song selection, brings back lots memories

This video made me cry remembering my trip across their in 1975 in a small car in August with no AC. The best of times

I took I-10 many times on the way to and from El Paso. It's one of the most enjoyable trips when the weather is like it is in the video. Listening to music as loud as I wanted and enjoying the panoramic view of the landscape. Thanks for sharing your video.

The scenery is rather beautiful. I really like these flat top hills. Also that place is huge, I can't even imagine so many miles with no villages or small towns.

Could you imagine living in this remote area? Seriously, like this is where the hills have eyes are made.

I would love to go to the US, get a car a drive through these deserted stretches of road: it's so relaxing!

I drove through here back in the Fall of 2013 after I left the Marine Corps. I was stationed in Camp Lejeune, NC and my home is in San Diego, CA. It was fun driving 90 mph and pass several DPS units without the fear of getting pulled over. Thanks for the memories Jim.

One of your best videos. Helped me clean my mind after a long day at the office.

I was born and raised in this part of the world. Made this drive literally hundreds of times while working in the oil and gas industry. About 45 miles from Ft. Stockton you passed a very well known natural monument known to as Squaw Teat Mountain. Thanks for sharing. All lot of great memories we’re made along this highway.

Thank you so much for putting this together. So bummed I didn't get to see this in daylight, during my 2nd drive through here. No major highlights; just a pretty drive that dispells the common perception of Texas being a flat and a bit of a featureless landscape.

Jim, this is one of your best! I love long hauls and desolate stretches of road - your soundtrack for this ride was perfect!! Well done!!!!

As you might tell by my youtube ID, I live in Hawaii (29 years straight!) and have driven I-10 round trip THREE times between LA and Houston to visit family in Houston. I really LOVE this entire route across 3 and 3/4 states stopping at Motel 6s in Benson, Az and Sonora, Tx (their accommodations are perfect for those simply driving thru. It is very relaxing to drive especially at 80 and 75 mph, only traffic issues (if any at all) are thru El Paso and Phoenix and first 90 miles between LA and San Bernardino. It completely breaks up the jet lag from Honolulu. And FREEWAYJIM, your videos are truly AWESOME!!!!!

I love that trip, Ozona,and Junction are nice little Oases with Davy Crockett stories. You can take an interesting side trip and cross the Pecos at Sheffield. It's a long way but there's also Fort Stockton and Van Horn to break it up too!. I'm on the east coast ,if I could just close my eyes and get to the west side of San Antonio it would be perfect. Thanks for the great music.!

Love youre videos man, just wanted to say thanks, they are great quality, and I LOVE to see parts of the world, I don't know why but I love travelling videos

I appreciate the effort that you put in making your videos. The cleanliness of your windshield makes it for a smooth viewing. This video was very relaxing. Thank you.

The flat openness of the desert is really cool imo, driving through Kansas Texas New Mexico and Arizona is some of my favorite freeway experience

Excellent looking video and an absolutely amazing ride. That was fun. The scenery was breathtaking and everything looked great. The music was the best. Definitely added a lot to the video. Thanx for posting this.

In 2011 I drove from Beaumont to El Paso in one run. Took about 13 1/2 hours.

I like your ride-alongs and your choice of music. We were coming back from Alpine, Texas a couple of winters ago, headed for Fredericksburg, towing a 38 foot fifthwheel. We found out why the ST trailer tires are limited to 65 MPH. Blew one about 40 miles outside of Junction, ripping the j-panel off the kitchen slide and shredding the underbelly fabric above the tire. Ya gotta love West Texas.

I have always liked this video a lot. The landscape is unlike anywhere else and the music is spot on

I have to say - i really love this channel...!! Whenever i visit somewhere I would do a roadtrip to see how the locals live. Also - you're taste in music is spectacular...! I'm streaming this to the big TV in the lounge, pretending i'm in a convertible, with the first song from little river band really loud... Freedom of the road

I love this video! It's true, there are stretches between Junction and Ozona that are less than interesting, but that makes the scenic spots all the more rewarding! One of my favorite parts of driving through West Texas is the gradually climbing elevation, and passing through the rock cuts. Once you're in the Pecos River area, it's like driving in a bowl with all the surrounding hills. Thanks so much for sharing this! Also, I love the song selection!

Very nice videos. I like the part of the road where this video cuts off onto El Paso. I like the mountain country desert it becomes and also the windfarms on the way.

I love the music you use in your videos! Keep up the great work!

That piece of 1973 map at the beginning brought back memories. My family used to take this route fairly often in the early 1970s when I-10 was still under construction, so there were lots of detours and lots of heavy machinery - an exciting show for a little kid!

You have chosen very good songs.

Thank you very much for this great video - As always

Amazing how deserted this part of Texas is. Reminds me of the movie No Country for Old Men.

I adore Texas...always have. I was raised in Southern OK. We went across the state line often. I've gone from Corpus Christi to Dalhart in the panhandle as well as El Paso to Shreveport, LA. Very diverse land AND some of the nicest people there are. Incidentally, I've always found Georgians to be terrific, too!

And that was just 81 miles of it. LOL.. It just keeps going and going and going! We have some land near Sonora, Tx. I love going out there on a weekend to just relax, shoot the guns, look at the stars at night and enjoy the complete silence.

I stumbled across your Houston video and thought, oh wow, he is taking almost my exact route out of Houston! I'm traveling from Pecos to Houston and back to Pecos next week. The Galleria area of Houston. I've been traveling this route for 7 years now. Alone! Yes, your mind does wonder..... Great videos!

Great video! Takes me back to many a road trip I did in South Africa. My Dad was a road engineer in SA back in the 1950's and 60's, and he studied the freeways in the USA, brought that design and layout back to SA, so the freeways there look exactly like this, rock cuttings and all. Even the surrounding territory looks similar. Only difference is you guys drive on the wrong side of the road!

I will be doing this drive in March. Driving from Corpus Christi to Phoenix. Thanks for the preview! :)

Your videos always kick ass! Regardless of where you film. You give a lot of geographical insight on places a lot of people cant travel to because of work/relationship demands....

Nice video. I drove from Houston - Phoenix with my cousin & a friend, and three puppies in a 2016 Buick Verano, in one sitting. I love the drive, if the people you are with are good people.

This reminds me of driving I-90 from Sioux Falls, SD to Rapid City,SD which I did twice in 2008 and 2010. Over 340 miles between the two towns. I drove 80mph the whole time too. This scenery reminds me of that. Very long....lol! Enjoy all your videos. Greetings from Knoxville,TN!!

Pretty scenery! I don't get a chance to head out west very often (never had a reason to really). I agree with you though, people may talk smack about how boring western Texas is, but this particular stretch of I-10 is a lot more interesting than say I-10 in some parts of Mississippi where you can't see anything because trees line the road on either side for hundreds of miles. Nice video.

Another excellent video! And yes, I can see where you would get some kind of redemption from the views on this road. Having run I-10 from Jacksonville to Marianna quite a bit (and once to Pensacola) I can concur on the 'boring' part.

Watching this really hit the spot for me today. And the songs were perfect match.

thank you so much for this video. I love driving through west texas and have not been able to recently. Please put up more west tex videos if you got em!

great video, looking forward to watching many more.. thanks

I’ve driven this drive many times going to big bend and Guadalupe mountains I like how it goes from the karst topography of the hill country to the mountains

Driving through west Texas is much different than driving through, say, Colorado. Everything in Texas is on a much grander scale. I really enjoyed watching the transition from the desert to the hill country going eastbound here.

I just watched this, I remember driving this back in 1990 going to California and stopped in Las Cruces, NM for the night. I think it was a Motel 6, interesting thing, the following year, 1991, in traveling back east, stopped in Las Cruces again, same hotel and same clerk who remembered me traveling the year before. But yeah this drive in Texas, spots I called the 100 miles of nothing. Speed back then was 65, but I drove like 75 to get through it. Thanks for recording a memory I have of that time.

Great video Jim! Those rock cuts and hills make it interesting. Good choice of songs too.

Great video Freewayjim, perfect soundtrack for a road trip. I enjoyed all 15 mins. By the way, you're right about there being more boring drives in the midwest. I-70 from Salina KS to the KS/CO state line is better driven at night.

Thanks for sharing. Love this drive.

Good video! Drove this route recently from San Antonio to Van Horn. I really enjoyed it, especially the big sky country out in Van Horn, but you're right: be sure to gas up, and load up on plenty of water and munchies.

I lived in SW Montana for a few years so I got to know what "Big Sky" country was all about. 1-10 in West Texas, especially the further west you are, reminds me a bit of 1-94 in Eastern Montana. I'd love to make the drive from Houston to El Paso one day.

I'm driving from Austin to El Paso next week this helped me visualize my trip thx

Nice to see this. I like it. I note that as you continue, and near the border into NM, it seemed to me- in recall at least (been a while) that it is almost like you drop off one plate and down down down to another. In any case, I enjoy the wide open spaces and that is a pretty damn good stretch of it. :)

3:33 is so true. That was near torture I am sure. 12:00, you went BarbiePoleDancer! But I do want to graze in those pastures at some point, just not in the summer. My wool is too much for that heat.

always love your videos man! whenever i drive around my home state of michigan im pretty thankful we dont have any stretches (of freeway at least) that are very boring for very long (and i guess i mean more like the stretches you describe in other midwestern states, i get to see this most often myself in rural indiana and illinois and i rarely dislike a road trip but there is not much to enjoy out there for me)

Well, the scenery is better than I-20 in west Texas. The rock cuts remind me of I-65 in Kentucky and Tennessee. And no, I never could drive through Texas in a day. Drove through on two occasions and had to stop on both trips. Nope and nope.

It’s amazing to me that the state of Texas doesn’t have more gas stations, rest stops and medical centers along this stretch of interstate. This would be a nightmare of a place to have a medical emergency.

I love your videos. This one reminds me of traveling on either I-57 in Illinois or I-65 in Indiana. Long and dull

I'll be driving to CA in mid December so will be driving this route from Houston. Spending 1st night in Ft. Stockton. I'm looking forward to it! It sure beats the view in Houston!

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I was thinking the same thing about what you said around 9:50 .How the 1800s were like .Also the guys who did the rock cuts when the road was being built.Great Ride Jim!

To me, this is an absolutely beautiful drive. Anything but boring, for my tastes.

Beautiful this seems like an awesome roadtrip

Great music on all videos ! Even though it's a boring ride it's very beautiful during sunrises or sunsets.

I have traveled this road many times and I always called it "The Big Empty." But loved the openess of it, not too much of the "open" left.

I thought all the "nothingness" existed on the Florida's Turnpike from Fort Pierce to Orlando, the 76 miles of Alligator Alley or all of Ontario 417 from the Quebec-Ontario provincial line to Ottawa from my own travels. I did not notice a single convenience store at any interchange while you filmed.

Not boring at all. I imagine even in the 55 MPH days you could go as fast as you wanted as who was out there to enforce the speed limit?

I know this part of I 10. Its interesting to watch how the land changes. I love it!

Took I-10 from Junction to Stockton in spring 2014, while on my way to Colorado. Unfortunately, the visibility was not that great due to fog and what seemed to be dust as well until I got well north of Stockton, close to Pecos. Sunny weather would've made the drive less dreary. Thanks for the video!

As many times as I have made this drive, I still enjoy it!

Hey Jim, great video. I actually work out here, in Monahans, in the oilfield. That ride really has some majestic views. The problem is, it's just so boring. I know the two statements seem to not go together, but in this case they do. I can't even drive to San Antonio on my days off because that drive just kills me. So I'm stuck in the middle of nowhere until I take a week off every month and a half and fly out of Midland. Love your videos.

I actually enjoyed watching the ride and listening to the music.

as long as there are curves, hills, some greenery ... twist and turns...i'm fine with 4 or 5 hundred miles of nothing ... but if it's a straight line with only a hill cresting over so you can see the next 100 miles of straight road ... i would freak. I think you and the other travelers showed what that is like somewhere on Interstate 80 in Utah... i can barely handle 20 miles of straight road out here in California before going bonkers. Yes, I did see "thing" hahahaha... Oh and splattered bug on the windshield ... yes, annoying...especially when they are juicy with pollen. i can imagine the southern states where the bugs seem to be straight out of prehistoric time periods.. As usual, thanks for the ride!

Having an 80mph speed limit would be fun, but I wonder what the Texas heat would do to the car for that long of a drive at that speed. Imagine someone booking it at 100+ with those temperatures, the car would probably have some overheating issues. Great video as always. You need to come back to Pittsburgh and film, all of the tunnels have undergone renovations!

If you traveled 81 miles in 57 minutes, on average your speed was 85.26 mph and you stopped so your speed was even higher! You must have been going about 90 mph. Anyways, nice video!

I've driven this route going to Odessa , nothing but hills after San Antonio . Truckers take advantage of the downhills drop so get out of the way , but man it's amazing drive!

I also drove from Nashville,TN (where I used to live until recently) to Denver, CO in two days. Went thru Kansas and that felt like forever too! Talk about the Great Plains! Lol! But it was interesting. That stretch along I-70 was long for sure!

Beautiful countryside. I love western landscapes.

I drove from El Paso Texas to Dallas Texas one time and it took 11 hours. It was 635 miles. This gives you an idea how big Texas is.

During the 1970's this part of i10 was under construction. The speed was 55 mph. The detour was on us 290 from Sheffield to outside of Sonora. It was a two lane road which made it way up an escarpement to get to the Edward's Plateau.

I think the most bland drive is I-16 to savannah Ga! I hate that stretch of road I'd take this over that ANY DAY😊 BTW I'm doing I-70 in September along with Trailridge road! You're such an inspiration ! Keeps up the videos!

Going from Nebraska into Colorado was my first time seeing one of those time zone change signs as well because of going from the central time zone into the mountain time zone.

I drove from Atlanta to Los Angeles last year and the stretch between Waskom, Texas to El Paso (well, Anthony on the NM-TX borderline) is a 12-13 hour haul! I spent the night in Dallas and El Paso, so I guess that doesn't count

yup 880 miles, that's just over 1300 km, about the same length between Winnipeg and Edmonton. I do that all the time in a single day. Should be do-able for me I'm thinking in Texas :-D It can't be worse than Saskatchewan. One of my favourite things to do on long road trips is to listen to audio plays of westerns in the car. Seems like it would be fitting in Texas.

During the last minutes, I noticed the centerline doing a strobe like reverse direction optical illusion. It reminds me of watching spoked wheels under flourescent lighting. Cool effect.

done I-10 Houston all the way to I-10 California a total of 6 times already back and forth... Very relaxing especially when it's 6 am in the morning and the entire road to yourself...

Other than marveling the beautiful desolation of West Texas, the thing I marveled at the most were all the rock cuts; that's an engineering feat worthy of its' own discussion...

Thanks for introducing us to thing from the adam's family

I've been on I-10 west of there, where I-20 W ends into it, and that's also in the middle of nowhere. I think my sister's been on one of those long boring stretches in the Midwest, I-70 through Kansas.

It's crazy how one end of Texas is so different from the other. Practically desert land to the west, and swamps to the east.

Awesome Videos !

Beautiful West Texas.

7:36 that exit you took I remember there use to be a convenient store & RV park on the other side of the interstate. I stopped there to get something to drink a few times. This was back in 2004. & I'm not sure what year it was that they shut down.

Very nice! My dream is to go to New Orleans, find the 10- take the 10 west to Santa Monica, CA! Have wanted to do that more since a friend passed earlier this year and all- nice ride! Gives me an idea of what the open areas of Texas are like! Very nice ride through Texas- and yeah, interesting rock cuts- very nice ride- and a good soundtrack too!

Im from San Antonio and have been living in the Philippines since 2014, god how i miss the roads there cz the people here do not know how to drive at all they are always taking up two lanes and cutting you off and doing u turns right in front of me. I wish my wife here would say lets go live in san antonio, texas. Thanks for the video freewayjim looking forward to more.......

Great music for this video!