Comments by "Daily Wire Third Stringer" (@DailyWireThirdStringer) on "How to Build a Road" video.

  1. What if I told you that I traveled that road just five days after this video was uploaded? (I'm just now seeing it a year-and-a-half later.) Well I did, as part of my fourth and final road trip beginning in my home state of California, making it the first (and perhaps only) time I have done so in my 24 years on this earth. I was eager to see the Rocky Mountains for the first time on my way to Denver. The best way I can describe it, as someone quite familiar with my local Sierra Nevada mountain highways, is it's just about the most demanding mountain pass imaginable for an Interstate. I-5 going between Los Angeles and the Central Valley (which used to hold that title in my head) hardly compares. At one point, a semi-truck was stalling out on a steep grade in front of me (I was in the right lane because some maniacs were okay driving 70 mph in pouring rain, so I let them pass), in a construction zone no less, and I had to make a split-second decision to either accelerate on an incline and attempt a merge in a crowded left lane or stop behind the truck and wait for an opening large enough to safely accelerate to 65 mph (which by all appearances could be a long time indeed). I chose the former and barely squeezed in, but that moment ranks as one of the most stressful experiences in my eight-plus years of driving. As for the rest of the highway, it felt more like one was gliding over the mountains than actually driving on them. If I need to travel that way again, I'm going to take the other road I drove on that very same day, on which I needed to do nothing other than adjust my cruise control occasionally for a whole three hours: I-80. 😂
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