Brit Reacts to The Start of our American Road Trip!

[00:00:00]Hi, and welcome back to my channel. If you have been following along, you will have seen that me and my family have just been on the most incredible American road trip from Pennsylvania to Los Angeles. Now, if you were following along, I did make a community post to say that video one, so the video with our first couple of stops, would come at the end, which is what this video is, because I ran into some audio issues.

[00:00:23]So, originally I was going to do a voice over to kind of fix it when I got home, but I thought I'd just do a sort of reaction video to it. So, when there is no audio, I'm sitting here so I can talk about it and tell you what it was like.

[00:00:39]So, let's take a look.

[00:00:42]We are now at Cadillac Ranch just outside Amarillo. So, this is one of the most famous roadside attractions on Route 66. It is very loud and I will move in just a minute, but this was created in 1974 by an art group called the Ant Farm. So, it features 10 Cadillacs nose deep into the ground. They're there in the distance. I will walk over in just a minute, but what's amazing about this place is you're encouraged to add your own spray paint. So, people are encouraged to do that, so it could never look the same. Every day it could look completely different. So, let's go over and take a look. This is incredible for me because I have seen photos of this.

[00:01:24]I've heard about this. Never thought I'd get to see it, and here we are. So, let's go and take a look.

[00:01:30]So, here's where the audio cuts out. I got clever and I tried to add music, and it didn't work out for me, but this was an incredible stop. So, this was one of our first stops on our Route 66 trip, and you can see here it's clean. You know, there's there's spray paint there.

[00:01:47]This lady here is spray painting that car, and there's no rubbish on the floor. It's well respected, and this is something I have noticed a lot while traveling America. The places like this are respected.

[00:02:01]And of course a great family photo opportunity. So, before I go any further, the reason that we started our trip in Amarillo, Texas is because we ran into car difficulties. I did put this in my community post, but if you missed that, I'll just quickly explain it here. So, originally we left Pennsylvania and we got all the way to Springfield, Illinois, which is where the trip was supposed to start. We had so many more little trips planned as well before getting here, but we ran into car difficulties to say the least, and there was just no way that our car would make it to Los Angeles. So, we had to drive all the way home.

[00:02:42]We thought that was going to be it. We thought we would have to cancel the trip, but we managed to get a higher car, and then we absolutely bombed it down.

[00:02:51]Four days it took us with obviously stopping in motels, and we made it all the way to Amarillo, Texas, which is where we then started the trip. But, next week we are going on more trips, and I will talk about that at the end of this video on where we're going. So, we will be going back to Springfield, Illinois, but the other places that we missed out on we won't get to go because we're doing a different route, but I will talk about that at the end.

[00:03:19]So, that was a amazing stop. I'm so glad we got to do that. I've decided to sit in the car for this bit of recording because it is very loud out there. So, they actually leave spray paint by the cars, but we chose not to do that because of certain reasons. We don't want to get covered in spray paint. But, now we're heading to New Mexico, and we're going to come off of Route 66 to go to Roswell because you cannot be this close and not go to Roswell. So, we're going to go see all the wacky stuff that's there, definitely visit the museum, and just have some fun in Roswell. So, we will be there soon.

[00:03:53]3 hours later and we have made it to Roswell, New Mexico. So, we have diverted from Route 66 to do this visit because it's just something that we have always wanted to do. We just had to do it because everybody has heard the story from 1947.

[00:04:09]Debris found near Roswell sparked one of the world's largest UFO mysteries. And to be fair, saying you found a flying disc but the very next day saying it was a weather balloon was always going to raise a few eyebrows. So, I'm very excited to get out into the town, see what it has to offer. We've just checked in, dumped our bags so we can head straight back out. So, let's go and do some exploring.

[00:04:35]So, this seems to be the main street.

[00:04:37]So, before we move any further, look at this lamp post. That is I've never seen a town go to so much effort like that before. All the lamp posts were alien heads, which was incredible to see. It is the little things like that that Roswell was really, really fun for.

[00:04:56]>> are fully leaning into the alien hype, which is what we expected and honestly what we wanted. So, we know about Project Mogul that came out years ago, but this is still a fun town to visit.

[00:05:08]So, we are heading to Alien Zone, which is like a walk-through so we can get some fun family photos and keepsakes because I don't think we will ever get the chance to come back here. So, let's go inside and have a look.

[00:05:21]>> So, this Alien Zone, if you watched my reaction video to Roswell, they went here and that's how I knew about this place. So, that's why I like to do reaction videos to locations in the US so I can learn where's good to go. But this was just silly, fun. I have a toddler.

[00:05:42]It was a great opportunity just to have some fun and take some photos. And the photos are great. I do show some photos in a minute because they're here.

[00:05:53]So, these are just amazing keepsakes that we can always keep and look back on about the amazing time we had when we lived in America and we got to visit Roswell. And I love my photos. So, no matter where we live in the world, these pictures will be on the wall.

[00:06:09]So, here we are going to a virtual reality place.

[00:06:18]>> The official story.

[00:06:22]July 7th, 1947. Spaceport Roswell >> [music] >> invites you to see what really happened on that desert night. You know, it's 75 years ago.

[00:06:32]>> So, I actually had audio in there, but I couldn't record because we had the masks on. So, it was a virtual reality experience like what you get in the arcades. And it was basically you're on the spaceship with the aliens and you crash and then you're met by the government and then you're having experiments done on you and you're sort of it feels like you're moving but you're not and I do highly recommend it.

[00:06:57]It was so much fun. My daughter absolutely loves things like that.

[00:07:03]>> [snorts] >> So, here we have gone to the famous McDonald's that has the spaceship roof.

[00:07:07]I don't think there is another McDonald's like this in America. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but look at that.

[00:07:15]It just makes McDonald's even more fun and a fun kids area for the children.

[00:07:20]Again, space focused, very alien heavy.

[00:07:24]It was definitely a very fun very fun town to visit. And you know, I don't I don't believe in aliens. I don't believe in any of this, but it's fun to lean into and the shops were really really fun as well. So, I don't believe in aliens, but I do love a conspiracy theory and I do love looking at things like this and getting involved and shops like this are just so much fun and interesting to be inside of. We didn't buy a lot, we didn't go crazy. This was the beginning of the Route 66 trip so we didn't want to spend too much money.

[00:07:59]And of course the famous Dunkin Donut alien where we got some photos. It is day two in Roswell. Today we're going to get back on Route 66 and head to Albuquerque but before we do that we're going to go and shoot some aliens and go check out the UFO museum. So let's go and do that.

[00:08:19]So we are now heading over to Space Walk over here to shoot some aliens. And I wouldn't know about this because it is quite hidden down this side street. I would not know about this if it wasn't for the reaction video I did. So I will link their channel in the description. I believe they were called Through My Lens off the top of my head but I will link that.

[00:08:39]Because I would not know about this. So let's go and take a look.

[00:08:42]So this was actually quite disappointing and I talk about this more afterwards but because of the reaction video I saw it being more fun than it was.

[00:08:55]So it it probably lasted less than 5 minutes. It was just a walk through.

[00:09:00]You see all this fun stuff. Again good photo opportunities but I was constantly looking for the blasters because I thought we were shooting aliens.

[00:09:11]But it never happened. So I do I do talk about this in a minute but this was probably the only disappointing thing because I'd I was expecting something else.

[00:09:21]>> So as you saw we did just go and do the alien thing. We didn't shoot any aliens because we didn't get given any guns.

[00:09:27]Afterwards I asked and the lady said they do have them for fun but she didn't offer them. We didn't know to ask. I thought you'd get them in there but it doesn't matter. It was a bit of fun.

[00:09:37]Let's head over to the UFO museum.

[00:09:42]So, I didn't know what to expect with this UFO museum because how can you have a UFO museum? It it it seems strange to me, but you end up leaving with more questions, to be honest, because it's witness accounts, all documented, things like sightings and reports of what people have said, crop circles.

[00:10:06]There was information about a UFO landing in Suffolk in England, which I'd never heard of before. So, you do kind of get sucked in and I think you end up leaving with more questions than answers, but it was a great experience. There's the UFO lands in Suffolk.

[00:10:26]But, yes, definitely great fun for the kids, as well. Look at this. This is just good fun for the children. Amazing.

[00:10:34]It was very big, as well. There was a NASA section, too, that we'll get to in just a Here we go. So, yes, there was a NASA section. Lots of information, lots of stuff to look at.

[00:10:44]Very reasonably priced, as well. So, it was just good fun.

[00:10:50]So, this is us just finishing off our trip at Roswell. It has been incredible.

[00:10:55]We ended the day at the UFO museum, where I picked up a book for just $20, and the author was there, and he gave us a presentation on the whole Roswell incident, and he signed the book to my daughter, Isabel, so it's going to be an amazing keepsake for her in a few years' time. So, that was incredible. The only thing I would say I was slightly disappointed with at Roswell was the spacewalk, because I was expecting to go in and have some fun with some blasters, but the lady didn't offer them. We didn't know to ask. And when we were walking through, I don't really know what I thought. I just assumed we'd get them in there or something would happen, but it was very quick. It was just like >> I'm over it now.

[00:11:34]>> But, for less than $10 each, it was still just a bit of fun. And that is the thing with Roswell, it is very fun, very quirky, and everything we did was less than $10 each. So, you can't really go wrong with that. It has been incredible.

[00:11:48]So, we're going to pick back up on our Route 66 trip now and head to Albuquerque.

[00:11:57]It's really funny watching this back now at the end of the trip and talking about it because this was our very first stop.

[00:12:04]Th- These were our first stops on our Route 66 journey. And if you watch the other videos, there's so many other places we went to. You could see through now that we have a suntan as the trip goes further on and you see the weather get better, but this was an amazing stop and I [clears throat] absolutely loved it. My family absolutely loved it. And, you know, we started the trip not in the best of moods because we were tired, we were stressed.

[00:12:30]What happened with the car is just It just really is not ideal. Nobody needs car issues ever, but when you've been planning such a big trip for so long and then it happens just before you arrive, you just couldn't make it up. But, now we're home and looking back at it all, this trip just made up for everything that happened with the car at the beginning and then the following stops were absolutely incredible. So, coming up next week, we're going on another road trip not as long as this one, but we're going to Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minneapolis, Illinois, Indiana, and South Dakota. So, we are really looking forward to that. We are getting closer to ticking off all 50 states. Of course, America is huge. We are never going to be able to see everything within each state, but to tick off all 50 states would be absolutely incredible and I feel like we've come a long way since one of my earlier videos I made saying can we make it to all 50 states? We have come a long way since then.

[00:13:36]But, I hope you enjoyed this video.

[00:13:38]Thank you for watching and I will see you in the next one.