23 Reasons Why The Midwest Is Absolutely Ridiculous

What is GOING ON in the midwest?? I never thought I'd see some of this stuff anywhere!

Here is a collection of just some of the weird, cool and unusual things I saw when I drove around the midwest for a month last August. I started in Kansas, went up into Nebraska and Minnesota, and wound up in South Dakota, Iowa and Missouri. I wanted to see all of this in the summer. That’s the best time to drive around this part of the country.

You'll never see any of this anywhere else in the United States.

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[WESJULY]

As a lifelong Midwesterner, I would like to thank you for the positive review. We are so much more than flyover country.

[artur]

As a guy from the Czech Republic, I have to say the middwest is definitely one of the more appealing parts of your great country. Only been to New York and New Jersey so far, maybe one day.

[jeffwright]

I have travelled a lot around the USA and I often will get off the interstates for a couple of hundred miles to drive the secondary roads and visit the small towns that time forgot. It has always restored my faith in the kindness and generosity of everyday folks.

[tmusa]

Us rural Midwesterners know it sucks worse elsewhere. We vacation, watch the news and YouTube videos, etc. But I can happily say I have never personally seen, in person, a homeless encampment. If you want a job around here, there’s one to be found. Add to that, families are closer and we help each other when a crisis occurs. We have gofundme, silent auctions, and benefits (steak fries, pancake breakfasts, etc.), and people are generous. When farmers get sick or hurt, or if a farm is damaged by a storm, other farmers flood in to help, it brings tears. ❤ To me, it’s worth the cold winters.

[GravityWellSounds]

I'm struck by how different the midwest is from here in California. I hope they can maintain that way of life as people continue to leave the big cities.

[berylethyl]

I love the idea of small, safe towns with all those small shops and businesses and seeing what they have to offer
It's really cool seeing how people live out in the vast plains of America!

[babureddy]

This looks like the America everyone wants to see. Love from India.

[nawmsayin]

This is exactly how one pictures the entire US of A living for an outsider like myself. I so wish to take a loooong holiday and come see the grandiose entirety of the great North American subcontinent, at least in this lifetime.
I wish the USA lots of blessings and that it's people may someday be successful in getting rid of the deeply rooted rot within the government and the people that actually pull the strings.

[jf]

As someone born and raised in Greece but moved to Los Angeles, California for 10 years now, I have to say: watching this made me realise how much the Midwest has in common with my rural home place.
There’s an unspoken truth that’s just a way of life over there when in times of need, people have your back and vice versa.
Hospitality is on a whole other level as well. When visiting someone you’re staying till you’re full and drunk.
It’s just you and your big family of people in the vast countryside and I miss that every day.

[christopher.]

I live in rural Ohio. I travel for work all over the U.S and can see the appeal of lots of places. But Ohio and the Midwest overall is a great place to live. You can keep your expensive coastal city, I like where I live.

[mexicanspec]

People that have always lived in an urban setting don't know how calm life is in a rural place. Everybody should try it once in their life.

[stephendacey]

I drove from the East coast along route 70 through the middle of America, and my car broke down in Kansas. This was back in 1987, when people would do their tuneups themselves b/c cars were easier to fix, and my spark plug fell off in the middle of route 70. Of course, an 18-wheeler ran it over, and a young couple stopped to help me. Eventually, they helped get me to a service station, in the middle of nowhere, and I was able to continue my journey to California. I realized that there are good people out there in the Midwest.

[GenXfrom]

Had a grand, happy year living on Fort Riley, in Kansas. Our 3 year stay on Fort Sill, Oklahoma was hit or miss but our second son was born there. The Midwest holds beautiful memories for me. 💞

[ToddFamilyFarm]

excellent recap of your summer tour, nice to remember warm summer days, makes me want to get some caseys pizza, looking forward to the Appalachian tour. honored to be one of your favorite spots and we love your videos

[brighoftheleash]

As someone who grew up in between Frederick and Baltimore Maryland, but now lives in northern Indiana. It’s definitely a lot more laid back here than back east.

[susan]

I was born and raised in the Midwest! Born in Omaha and now live in Sioux City. For the most part the Midwest is a safe place to live and raise your family! ❤

[rnsteve]

Nick living his best life traveling all over and telling us about it.

[mikedrown]

Way back in 1973 I was driving from western New York State to the northern California bay area. I had the best breakfast at a truck stop in Des Moines. Thanks Nick 👍😊🇺🇸♥️

[bobjacobson]

What a wonderful, enjoyable video! I've traveled around these states quite a bit over the last few decades, and have been in many of the places you highlighted here. Regarding Iowa, I believe it's worth adding that at the state's borders, the signs say "The People of Iowa Welcome You" which sums it up quite nicely.

Back perhaps 15 years ago, I flew into MSP on business, and asked someone where to buy groceries, and he said "Cub Foods". I asked if they also have Hy-Vee here, and he said "Oh, they're only in the little hick towns near the Iowa border." The next time I was in Iowa, I happened to mention this to a person working in a Hy-Vee near Des Moines...and we both just laughed; Iowa is a great state. A few years later, I was driving on a smaller highway NE of Des Moines; it was late enough in the day that the sun was at least three-fourths of the way across the sky, and the intense green of the mature soybean fields simply struck me as beautiful.

Valentine, NE is just at the edge of the Nebraska Sandhills, which is something like a huge beach without an ocean getting in the way. I'm interested in biogeography, and I was impressed that I could find eastern species of insects within view of ponderosa pines--and these pines can even be found as far to the east as where Nebraska Route 7 crosses the Niobrara River N of Bassett. Western Nebraska is quite scenic, as well as western SD and SW ND. Kansas, which doesn't extend as far west as these three other states, lacks the rugged forested areas in its western part, but has several spots with interesting rock formations, such as chalk pyramids and mushroom rocks.

After one has seen the 'big' attractions seen on national park calendars, etc., it's fun to explore the smaller, lesser-known places in these central states. By the way, it struck me as being a bit strange to hear people in the Black Hills area refer to their area as 'mid-western' because it looks as fully 'western' as the states to the west of it.

[Glooogii]

I started to be intrested in Midwest, it's so good looking in summer, it's calm, pretty clean, and even big cities are clean and modern and don't have much problems like other cities deal with, it's just look so havenly, thank you for this video this is what I need