Jacob, aka The Carpetbagger, journeyed down Route 66 with fellow YouTube travel videographer Adam the Woo a couple of years ago.
Both wound up posting several videos of that trip from Santa Monica to Chicago. Jacob’s totaled about 3 1/2 hours.
The Carpetbagger condensed those videos to just under 30 minutes. I suspect, like many of us, he’s stuck at home during the coronavirus pandemic and had time to kill and memories to revive.
A couple of things have changed since the videos originally were shot:
- The armless Paul Bunyan fiberglass statue — its limbs torn off by a bad windstorm — at the May Cafe in Albuquerque was restored last year.
- The Vacuum Cleaner Museum in St. James, Missouri, closed and later relocated a few miles away in Rolla, Missouri. It’s now about a half-mile south of Route 66 on U.S. 63.
The video is full of irreverence and tomfoolery, so don’t take it too seriously as a suggested travelogue.
But these two are just any YouTuber. The Carpetbagger has 272,000 subscribers, and Adam the Woo has 461,000. They definitely exist as an avenue of Route 66 publicity — especially in drawing younger travelers.
(Screen-capture image from Jacob the Carpetbagger video)
They make fun of themselves – must be their British roots!!!!