Those things at the Golden Gate Bridge you asked about are old coastal defense batteries. They protected the coast from naval threats up until the 1950-60's. The ring of bolts are where old Naval Guns were mounted. Another interesting fact is below the defenses, they found a fired but unexploded Japanese WW2 torpedo fired from a Japanese sub in WW2 years later.

Silas, I truly enjoyed this video as you were able to visit so many interesting sights, that I will not be able to see in my lifetime. You have a wonderful family - your children are adorable! Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

I'd like to thank you for the 10 second clip of the Delta King. At first I thought I was seeing a GHOST, until I realized I was looking at the SISTER ship. It brought back memories from my childhood of watching the Delta Queen racing on the Ohio River against the Belle of Louisville during the Kentucky Derby Festival. The Delta Queen's home port for a while was in Cincinnati, where it was the star attraction for Tall Stacks, a celebration held every few years(1980s-1990s) in Cincinnati dedicated to "Steamboats". The Delta Queen had been retired, but I heard it has come back and is currently being refurbished in New Orleans. The Delta Queen is the last surviving Steam Powered riverboat still being operated.

Very cool of you to share your family vaca with us. Thanks for the videos

Excellent silas kidos are great they are making good fun memories thanx for the ridealong cheers 🥂 guys 😊

Thank you for sharing your experiences with us. We absolutely enjoyed every minute of it! We love both of your channels! ❤

14:32 possibly WW2 Anti-Aircraft defense, circular base mounts for the guns.

You and your wife must have your hands full! We stopped at two and they're mid to late teens. Thankfully they still get along with each other and us. Enjoy it while it lasts!

Nothing like going home, back to your own bed❤😂

Those things by the bridge were for coastal defense. They would have guns on them originally. We have several coastal defense forts up here in Washington. Fort Casey on Whidbey Island still has the original guns in place! California is a beautiful state, but I highly recommend that you see the the Oregon and Washington coasts too! Family roadtrips are important! I treasure the roadtrips from my youth, and the ones I now take with my kids! I think the western United States is so awesome. Great video! 🇺🇸

🇨🇦 wonderful video Silas

You have a beautiful and wonderful family Silas. Thank you for sharing your family vacation. 👍👍👍👏👏👏🙏🙏🙏🙏

Thanks for this video Silas, well done with the massive amount of editing involved. The reason why you don't remember the Grand Canyon is because you were probably doing the same thing Bennit was doing, walking on rocks...

I moved a client from pa to Scottsdale Arizona. I drove most of Arizona at night so I didn’t see much landscape but driving through New Mexico was my favorite view.

Spend as much time with your kids as you can. Trust me, they grow up way too fast. But if you’re blessed like me, When they get to be adults. They give you “Grandchildren”, ……another blessing in itself. Good video Silas. Cheers

Thank you for sharing your vacation with us. Silas, you have a beautiful family. You are a Blessed man.

Lombard street is as beautiful as I remember it from my trip in 2010. Thanks for sharing Silas.

Thank you for taking us along with you. I think your family would have loved the redwood forest

It's great that you got away for a really nice vacation with the wife and kids, and are starting to show them this amazing country. It's really great that you got to see San Francisco and Las Vegas. There is a lot more to each of them, and to all of the great cities in the US and the world. To me, experiences matter more than things. I spent too much of my life focused on things, money, etc. Luckily, I always also focused on having good people in my life, so I never missed out on having great times as a couple, family, or with friends. 90% of the problems in the US are from coastal/city people not understanding flyover/country people, and vice versa. Plus suburban people being afraid of city folks, country folks, poor people, and minorities. The very narrow views, often with an agenda attached to it, by news sources, magnify the problems and fears. If you watch Fox, you might think every store in every city is looted empty by illegal immigrants. If you watch MSNBC, you might think that anyone without a law degree is unqualified to have an opinion about anything. Traveling will teach you that more people than expected have tons of money, and how much money there is to be made, if you move to where the money and big jobs are. Paying an extra $1 or even $2 for gas doesn't matter too much to anyone who can snag a high-paying job in an expensive part of the country, or get a job in a growth company at a good level, or anyone whose house has gone up $500K since they bought it. As you said, there are some issues. But there's a lot of great stuff going on too in this country. Always has been, and hopefully always will be. I've been to most of the places you showed, though I'm 66, so some were quite a while ago, like the Sausalito/Tiburon area. 21 years ago, tasty stuff at a fancy bakery there was pretty expensive, but really good. I'm glad to see that Santa Fe locomotive in Sacramento looking even better than it did when I saw it almost 30 years ago. I've been to San Francisco and Vegas around 20 times each, sometimes for business, sometimes for pleasure. I can't believe you got to see The Sphere before I did! One thing about Vegas, is that it is always changing. Some places I've been there, were later imploded and replaced. New stuff is always springing up. When you get back to Hoover Dam someday, don't just take the regular tour inside it. That is great, but not nearly as great as "The Whole Dam Tour" that is limited to a much smaller group and takes you many extra places inside the dam. It's worth it just to be able to look out from one of the ventilation grates in the face of the dam, that you get to one or two people at a time walking down a short, narrow tunnel from the bigger tunnels the tour walks you through. The only other way to get that view would be to fall off the top of the dam, which I do not recommend.

Come on, dad, let them play in the mud!

Really enjoy both channels. Lovely family, may God continue to bless.

One of your coolest videos yet, I'm handicapped and I could never travel there so thank you God bless you and your family

HI SALIS AND FAMILY, ITS OOD TO SEE YOU ENJOYING FAMILY HOLIDAYS TOGETHER, THE GRAND CANYON, WERE UNDER WATER IN THE LONG DISTANT PAST, FULL FLOWING WATER NOT THE TRICKLE YOU HAVE NOW, ENJOY THE REST OF YOUR HOLIDAYS TO COME BACK FRESH IN THE NEWYEAR. CHEERS FROM AUSTRALIA.

Dang I wish I knew you were coming through Vegas area! I would have taken you out on Lake Mead to see the Hoover dam from the water side! Glad you enjoyed your trip.

The transition from the 350z to the cougar vert was awesome

So glad to see you on the road with the family! Memories being made.

What's up silas

Too bad u did not check out Oregon u were close I know time & family excellent silas luv it😊

Silas, I was kind of disappointed you didn't stop and see Cousin Eddy! Holiday Rooaaad........Holiday Roooaad! 😆

Great memories for your family. Last time I visited was in 1991. There is a lot to see.But not someplace I would want to live. Peace

It's nice to see you visit the best coast.

Thank you for the video Your kids are adorable Big sister watching out for little brothers and then showing us that she is a kid by trying to not step on leafs on the side walk then your boys talking to the ducks. Just adorable. I have been to Vegas and the hoover dam . My dad was working in Vegas and me and my mom and little brother went out to see dad for Christmas from Texas we drove out there I was 17 . My dad took me and my brother hiking up sun rise mountain out side of Vegas. I think it was two and half hours up and two hours down and we didn't make it to the top what we thought was the top was not there was another peak behind the one we were on and it looked like it would be an hour down and then one and a half hours up to the same level we were at and then maybe another hour or so to the top. So we called it a day and went back to the truck which looked like a hot wheels car from where we were. A couple of days later we went to the Hoover dam and took the tour it's something to see in person. Thanks again for the video and GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY.

I am a new subscriber, I think I subscribed to your other channel on Sunday and this channel this evening. I find both of your channels very interesting, I always wanted to open a junkyard but where I’ve lived land was way too expensive. Ive been living in Naples Florida since becoming disabled so now I guess I’m on permanent vacation. I can’t do anything that I used to do because of the pain from my back and knees so I kind of live my dreams through guys like you. Thank you for what you share with us, without people out there like you, I’d be living a boring life. You have the most adorable children, good luck and keep up the great work. May our Lord bless you and your family every day. ❤

hover dam and the grand canyon. right through my neck of the woods!

Enjoyed the family roadtrip. Some of the places you visited I've seen - our older daughter used to live in Las Vegas and later in Kingman, Arizona, so I've toured Hoover Dam (back when you could still go down into the lower levels of the dam and the generating station) and also to the Grand Canyon, where I took the train from Williams with her, her then-husband and their two children. I've seen the Pacific Ocean from the LA area but I've never been to San Francisco.or Sacramento, but I remember my father (an IBM executive who traveled to San Francisco regularly when I was younger) talking about having abalone steaks at Fisherman's Wharf and bringing an abalone shell home to my mother as a souvenir. Like you, I never went into the water the one time I was in LA, but I did manage to get my feet wet in the Pacific when I visited Vancouver when I was in college. I'm too old now to travel that far ever again, though, so even though our older daughter now lives in Anacortes, Washington I'll probably never get there. But that's okay... our older son and his family live in Omaha and that's still within a relatively easy driving distance, although we usually spend four or five days getting there and the same coming back rather than just one or two.

Hope you really enjoyed california. I've been here most of my life. I live up in chico. It's about a hundred miles north of sacramento. Hope you're doing well. Take care.

That was cool. Ty for sharing.

Silas great video and good you spent time with your family and sounds like you had fun 🏆🙏🏻

Verry excellent silas Oregon west coast could use u know of op night guys 😊

Thanks for sharing your trip. I took my family to San Francisco in 1997. The kids were teenagers. It remains one of our best family memories.

Guess my favorite would be California

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Well,I was planning to play games on my phone,while I was listening the video,but instead I watch it all togethet without extra playing😊 Thank for the great content,it was very entertaining!

That trip seemed to me. Like a great adventure. Someday I will visit Golden Gate Bridge.

Everyone had fun i see 😊 Pacific Coast Highway is worth a trip down... 10 years from now take your kids to Pismo Beach with a Baja VW Bug ...... I went when I was 11 drove a dune buggy and had a blast ..😊 Enjoy your next Adventure with the family 👏👏👏👏✌️🤠

Real trip to get away from Kansas cold, thumbs up, great video,The last time i was in Arizona the traffic went over the Dam

I don't plan on ever going to CA, so thanks for taking me along ❤

A "Taste of Home"😂😂😂 at 30:47

Most of all thank for memory's of my trips and see love your family watch daily i live in jo county ks

30:48 , someone crushed it 👍

I took this same route in January 1971 going to my 1st station at Travis AFB in Fairfield CA

Great trip. Thanks for taking us along. About the only place I've never been on that trip was Sacramento. In 2018 I did a road trip to Boone Iowa for the Imca super nationals. Went through Kansas city on the way there, and Wichita on the way back. Was right around 3900 miles round trip. Favorite part was Hoover dam, that's my line of work, and the water you saw got to me a couple days ago.

Glad you and the family got away for a little family time. And yes your right everything in California is crazy expensive and hardly worth it. Cheers ! 👊😎👍

Silas. How many of those homes did you buy in California? 🤣

I'm glad that you and your family had some fun experiences in california. I won't speak of my one and only trip except for say that I've only been there once and has 10 times too many

Ooooh looking forward to this. I’m hoping you had the chance to visit the coastal redwoods.

Did you do the Grapes of Wrath path? Salisaw to Bakersfield. Very cool even if you didn’t plan it.

I knew I saw you! But of course I thought, no, he wouldn't be here. I'm in Elk Grove.

I was about your youngest age when i went on vacation to many of the places you visited and fondly remember it . if it werent for photos my mom took i probably wouldnt have remembered anything

Every time i go to kalifornee i see THINGS I NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD SEE AND NEVER HOPED TO EVER SEE! 🤔😆

Oh no self-driving car.....😮😮😮😮😮😂

Thank you for the tour

Thanks Silas! That was great. Great camera work. I loved Sacramento. Arnold was the governor then and we saw him enjoying a cigar out behind the capital building.

That looks like Turlock ca

hey that step street that twisted and turned wasn't that featured in some films ?

Lots of military posts from the 50,s -60,s on the west coast, especially Bay Area and during the Cold War…..no threats ever materialized. -

You were 30 minutes from my house I am in tracy,California

Nice Hyundai.

Coincidence you are visiting where I was originally from. Now I live four hours away from you in Kansas. Isn't life interesting?

19:41 completely driverless car infront of you

traveled across uUSA in latw 1979 a life tim experence Chris new Zealand

Buy the way i seen the selfdriveing car in video in china town why you didnt show it

What are dream neighborhood. Way too much light

Watch your step in San Francisco☣️. 💦🩸💊💉 💩 🥾

39:33,rather deal with the Kansas cold then the California,cost, crime ,creeps & communism

I-40 is terrible!

Just took this trip (for the most part) OUT of Arizona to Missouri. Travelled some of the same highways, too. You couldn't pay me to go to Commiefornia, however.

You being Kansason why not gone out 56 HYW or 54 it look like views and save 100 miles of trip have good trip.hop LA traffic ant too bad i move there in 82 left to ks home town in 87 .