Nick Johnson | I Drove Around Texas For A Month. This Place Is Nuts! @NickJohnson | Uploaded September 2024 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
No one has explored Texas like I just did. This is the ultimate Texas Road Trip!
I spent an entire month driving around Texas in the fall of 2023. We began in Austin the capital, and drove around as much of this state as we could cover in four weeks. And it’s a big state. Longest time I’ve ever spent in a state for a video series. It was crazy. We saw all kinds of stuff. And now I’m gonna share the adventure with you.
I took a month and drove to Austin, San Antonio, Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth, and everywhere in between! And wow what an adventure!
Austin is cool. I spent some time at the Broken Spoke, which they call the biggest honkey tonk in the world. Or something like that. Cool place. Old Texas. The kinda Texas I had hoped to see when I was here.
Turns out I didn’t see much of that.
But I saw a lot of construction and growth and change here. Things that people here aren’t too happy about. Austin is changing.
And then, we left.
Now, you can see the odometer on the Durango we rented for the month. Thing was practically brand new. The plan was to drive to all the big cities, check out all the cool Texas stuff in between, and then come back to Austin 28 days later.
It was late October when we began the trip, and as you’ll see, the first third of the trip was pretty cloudy and dreary. But that didn’t make it any less fun.
And remember, all of the details from the cities I stopped at on this trip are in the longer videos. You can find those on my channel.
On the way out of town, our first stop was the Tesla factory. It’s a big deal. It’s the biggest building in the country outside of the Boeing factory in Seattle. I marveled at how big the building was, and wondered why Elon Musk didn’t suggest his employees drive his cars. But he doesn’t.
This is an example of how Texas is changing. Later in the trip, I’ll show you all the oil shit I saw. That’s still a big thing here. But all this e vehicle stuff is making some moves here in Texas. And sadly, Texas is getting softer and softer with every new Tesla coming into town.
My first stop was San Antonio. But on the way there were many things to see. Like Buccees.
I spent a month here and my first stop outside of town was buccees. It’s Texans favorite place to get food. Buccess is this giant convenience store gas station monstrosity. They’re all over Texas. Nothing like em.
They started out with a goal - we just want to be a gas station with clean bathrooms. Well they are much more than that.
Down the road was another little hill country town called Wemberly. Population 2,800. Not much to see here, just a few knick knackky tourist hippie type of places.
But down the road was a fun memorable part of Hill Country. The city of Fischer.
We were lucky enough to be invited out to an Alpaca Farm that’s way back into the Hill Country hillsides. You can get an idea on just how different the geography is here when you get back into the rural land like this.
Down the road was a fun place. We were cruising the backroads of hill country and we passed this place. I was like pull over dammit!
It’s the Devil’s backbone. The oldest dive bar in Texas.
I wish this place was in full throat when we were here, but it wasn’t. I was getting the locals only macho vibe when I walked in. I told the bartender we’re not from here. She wiped down beer glasses and didn’t even look up and was like you don’t say. Huh.
Look at this honkey tonk in the back. My kinda place.
This is another bubbling burb. It’s called San Marcos. Lots of people are moving to this little college town. Neat place. There’s 68,000 people and it is growing fast here.
There’s a lot of Germans in hill country. The Germans settled this whole region. Back in the early 1900s, 5% of Texans were German. There’s a lot of Catholics and Lutherans up this way. Out in eastern Texas it’s a lot of baptists.
We spent three days in San Antonio. This is the Riverwalk. They had an annual Dias de Las Muertos parade when we were here. Neat stuff.
The riverwalk is a prize gem of Texas. It’s a big draw, and they take a lot of pride in it. Most of the tourists come here to see the riverwalk. And they come to see the Alamo too.
One day driving around here I came across a staging area where they had bussed in hundreds of migrants who had just crossed into the country illegally. They told me they were heading all over the country.
#texas
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No one has explored Texas like I just did. This is the ultimate Texas Road Trip!
I spent an entire month driving around Texas in the fall of 2023. We began in Austin the capital, and drove around as much of this state as we could cover in four weeks. And it’s a big state. Longest time I’ve ever spent in a state for a video series. It was crazy. We saw all kinds of stuff. And now I’m gonna share the adventure with you.
I took a month and drove to Austin, San Antonio, Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth, and everywhere in between! And wow what an adventure!
Austin is cool. I spent some time at the Broken Spoke, which they call the biggest honkey tonk in the world. Or something like that. Cool place. Old Texas. The kinda Texas I had hoped to see when I was here.
Turns out I didn’t see much of that.
But I saw a lot of construction and growth and change here. Things that people here aren’t too happy about. Austin is changing.
And then, we left.
Now, you can see the odometer on the Durango we rented for the month. Thing was practically brand new. The plan was to drive to all the big cities, check out all the cool Texas stuff in between, and then come back to Austin 28 days later.
It was late October when we began the trip, and as you’ll see, the first third of the trip was pretty cloudy and dreary. But that didn’t make it any less fun.
And remember, all of the details from the cities I stopped at on this trip are in the longer videos. You can find those on my channel.
On the way out of town, our first stop was the Tesla factory. It’s a big deal. It’s the biggest building in the country outside of the Boeing factory in Seattle. I marveled at how big the building was, and wondered why Elon Musk didn’t suggest his employees drive his cars. But he doesn’t.
This is an example of how Texas is changing. Later in the trip, I’ll show you all the oil shit I saw. That’s still a big thing here. But all this e vehicle stuff is making some moves here in Texas. And sadly, Texas is getting softer and softer with every new Tesla coming into town.
My first stop was San Antonio. But on the way there were many things to see. Like Buccees.
I spent a month here and my first stop outside of town was buccees. It’s Texans favorite place to get food. Buccess is this giant convenience store gas station monstrosity. They’re all over Texas. Nothing like em.
They started out with a goal - we just want to be a gas station with clean bathrooms. Well they are much more than that.
Down the road was another little hill country town called Wemberly. Population 2,800. Not much to see here, just a few knick knackky tourist hippie type of places.
But down the road was a fun memorable part of Hill Country. The city of Fischer.
We were lucky enough to be invited out to an Alpaca Farm that’s way back into the Hill Country hillsides. You can get an idea on just how different the geography is here when you get back into the rural land like this.
Down the road was a fun place. We were cruising the backroads of hill country and we passed this place. I was like pull over dammit!
It’s the Devil’s backbone. The oldest dive bar in Texas.
I wish this place was in full throat when we were here, but it wasn’t. I was getting the locals only macho vibe when I walked in. I told the bartender we’re not from here. She wiped down beer glasses and didn’t even look up and was like you don’t say. Huh.
Look at this honkey tonk in the back. My kinda place.
This is another bubbling burb. It’s called San Marcos. Lots of people are moving to this little college town. Neat place. There’s 68,000 people and it is growing fast here.
There’s a lot of Germans in hill country. The Germans settled this whole region. Back in the early 1900s, 5% of Texans were German. There’s a lot of Catholics and Lutherans up this way. Out in eastern Texas it’s a lot of baptists.
We spent three days in San Antonio. This is the Riverwalk. They had an annual Dias de Las Muertos parade when we were here. Neat stuff.
The riverwalk is a prize gem of Texas. It’s a big draw, and they take a lot of pride in it. Most of the tourists come here to see the riverwalk. And they come to see the Alamo too.
One day driving around here I came across a staging area where they had bussed in hundreds of migrants who had just crossed into the country illegally. They told me they were heading all over the country.
#texas
Email me: NickJohnsonNC18@gmail.com
I can help you find a real estate agent! Email me!
My Instagram: Nick Johnson YouTube- instagram.com/nickjohnson.youtube
I have a Patreon if you love it so much! Here's the link to donate to the channel: patreon.com/NickJohnsonYouTube?fan_landing=true
You can buy my music here:
iTunes: music.apple.com/us/album/state-songs-an-album/1523790725
This channel is about America!
The best video on this topic!
