How to Circumnavigate the Eastern United States | #shorts

[Nikki]

Hearing "this is America, dammit" in a British accent made me laugh too hard. 😂

[LVTX_HCA]

“Knowing me I’d probably get Lost in the Pond”

Brilliant.

[grumbotron]

I heard an eagle cry when you said "This is America, dammit!"

[devos]

"This is America dammit" proceeds to butcher garage😂😂

[udubeats]

My husband and I are loopers! We did the Mississippi route. It was a very different way of seeing the country. So much fun.

[GetDougDimmadomed]

As an American that lives on the Mississippi, I had no idea of this. Thanks for the road trip idea, or rather, boat trip.

[kjgaming]

I absolutely love this channel. There are so many channels that are the opposite of this, Americans who have moved to other countries because they don't like it here, but i like that you are a Brit who moved to the US, and you found a way to be entertaining and education by finding interesting things about our country. So many foreigners just like to make a fuss about the US, and i like that you don't do that.

[Alf]

As somebody born and raised in Illinois, I'm glad you got the pronunciation correct.

[sallyintucson]

“…because this is America, damn it” fits all the quirky ways we pronounce things incorrectly. 😆

[bigcrowfly]

in 1959 the Queen, and the Royal Yacht Britannia sailed to Chicago.

[ericgulseth]

My parents did this trip a few years ago. It takes a full year as you have to follow the seasons. Due to unfortunate circumstances, they had to stop their trip in Florida and by the time they got back going they had to wait until the following winter to get back to their trip.

[Jakestir]

The Loop has become increasingly popular over the last few years. We run a small marina on the Illinois and last fall we had over 200 “loopers” come through and stay at our marina.

Already starting to see some this year.

[Gladtobemom]

My dad and I did the great loop in 1977. we cut into the Chesapeake bay and then out to the Atlantic again via the Delaware River.

[morgancasey]

I love the whimper of frustration that doubles as pride when he says “this is America, dammit.” 😂

[ryanrevis]

Fun fac, someone did it on a freaking jet ski….yeah, ocean and all. Also much of the route is actually NOT on the open ocean at all, even the far eastern part, typically loopers use the ICW to keep from dealing with the wind and waves of the open ocean. Also you can cut across the upper middle part of Florida via canals and swamps, to avoid rounding the tip of Florida and save some time.

[Whateverhasbeenmynameforyears]

My grandparents did it on their boat in the 80’s and it took them a year (sight seeing too). It was called going around the island.

[Anonymized-name]

Does this mean the eastern US is technically an island

[leahwhiteley]

Cairo, Il pronounced by locals as K-row.

Cairo was know in the 50's and 60's because it was one of the places that you could cross the Mississippi from Missouri into Illinois to Kentucky..

It's at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers. Cairo sits on a spit of land between the two great rivers.

So you crossed on a narrow old 2 lane bridge from Missouri over the Mississippi to Illinois on this finger of land. Then you went a little way and crossed another old dalapidated narrow 2 lane bridge from Illinois over into Kentucky. The whole area is low and you think you're in a swamp. The bridges were so narrow that two semi's meeting, better stay in their lane. Many trucks got hung up on those bridges. We lived in Missouri and my Uncle lived in western Tennessee. This was the way to their house. I still remember how spooky that whole area was even in the daytime. Cairo use to flood everytime the river came up.
The bridge floors had big holes in them, you could see to the water. You stayed in the track.

There is a utube video from a truck driver that ran the bridges and videoed the trip a short time before they closed them permanently. The interstate across the 2 rivers had been completed by then.

I'm not sure why more people didn't die back then. We use to go all the way to Florida on 2 lane before 55 was built.

A kids family in my grade school class was heading to Florida and driving all night. Somewhere in Mississippi they came around a corner on the 2 lane and nailed a horse standing right across the lane. The horse flipped and slid up the windshield and broke out the glass and stuck in the windshield opening. Lucky for them, they were riding in a big Oldsmobile station wagon. The sheriff came and said they were really lucky because most of the time the horses go feet first through the windshield and kill several people.

A car dealer rented them a vehicle to continue their trip and the Dad bought a new station wagon from them on the way back. He contacted his insurance.

People think times are crazy now. Nope.

[theemmjay]

I never would have thought I'd ever hear Lawrence mention LARPing.

[lokiva]

How about from Barre, VT to Wilks-Barre, PA?

You can't actually sail those routes. I've done some of the ICW and canals shown, and there are segments where a sailboat needs its mast unstepped and to operate under power.