The Ultimate Texas Road Trip: A 12-Day Journey Through the Lone Star State

Came for the video, stayed for the wholesome father son relationship

At 13yo my history teacher brought her TV from home, and had a janitor put up an antenna. The class watched live (8 second delay) the motorcade, they did'n cut away. The whole class burst into tears at the atrocity we had just witnessed.

It's so wonderful to see a channel where father and son spent time together, wish I had that with my dad

Lost my dad 9 years ago. Looking at you enjoy your time with yours brings me happiness. Love your videos man

In 1963 when President Kennedy was killed, I was in 8th grade. The principal came on the voice cam and told us all to go home. She also said that our President had been shot and that he died. I walked home in a trance. Could not comprehend what had just happened. When I got home, my mother held me as I cried. She was crying too. Will never forget. Never.

The long road trip videos are my favorite!!! Such a treat. Thanks Josh and Pops as always for sharing your journeys with us!

I had a really good time hanging out with you and Pops in Houston.

I went to all 89 Texas state parks. Started in April 2020 and finished in April 2023. Just finished visiting 48 states and the 51 national parks within them. Drove 90,000 miles in 3 1/2 years.... much of that was the 1000 miles through Texas every time I drove my cargo van back home to Houston. Yep, you drive 1000 miles in Texas and you're STILL in Texas 🙂

Pops has a great voice and a wonderful job on the National Anthem!!!

I like how you add a respectful chunk of history into the mix of your videos. If you make it back to central Texas, you might enjoy peeking behind the traditional Cowboy and Mexican cultures, and instead digging into the German History of Texas. In the 1800's, Galveston was a major immigration starting point for German settlers, who spread throughout central Texas, often connecting with traveling groups of German immigrants who had previously settled in North Dakota, traveling up and down the rivers, working as carpenters. The combined groups of immigrants helped each other build their own towns, homes and churches. This resulted in the "Painted Churches" of south Texas -- unassuming, small buildings that were elaborately hand-painted and decorated inside to resemble the stone interiors of their traditional centuries-old church buildings back in Germany. Visit in October and you'll find many local Oktoberfests that aren't just excuses to party. Poke around and you can find a few community whose residents still speak German, and keep a traditional biergarten or two tucked behind local businesses and city buildings. During WWII, a number of towns hosted POW camps of German prisoners, many of whom worked as laborers for local farmers while detained, and ultimately forswore German allegiance so they could remain in Texas and become American citizens. Naturalized Germans remain as a small, hidden subculture in a lot of Texas communities.

I was also at school and we were all gathered in our auditorium to see the television. I can remember how emotional the teachers were

This video almost made me cry. Spending time with your pops is so special. Love this so much 💞 Thank you for visiting Ray’s! The Lopez’ are apart of our huge huge family. We hope y’all loved it! Is it true? Is our Texan hospitality pretty great as outsiders say it is?☺️

Texan all my life and I haven’t visited all these place. Thank you Josh and Pops for sharing your adventures!

Amazingly blessed to travel with your dad to all those places. I'm grateful he's super healthy to go with you. Keep living out loud and on purpose. ❤

This was great. I live in Waco and have been a Texan all my life. it was fun to see you go to places I have been before. Also, I saw a lot of places in downtown Dallas, Houston and San Antonio that I can not wait to visit because of your video. I am healing from cancer treatments and surgeries so even though I do not have the energy to travel right now, I feel like I traveled with you and Pops. Thank you. Excited about your other videos.

My goal in life is to own an RV and visit the places that you and your dad have gone through. You guys have such an astounding taste in your destinations and what I love from your trips are the stuff that we viewers learn from the places you visited.

Oh my gosh! So funny!!! Poor Pops has to be a contortionist to get into that car!!😂

Thanks bro for taking your old man to new places, he deserves all the love and care...

Pop’s singing was the best part. He was great!

Love the long videos of you and your dad do, I can’t wait for the next one!