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We're on a road trip. We are driving from our house in Virginia all the way to Colorado. And last night we came to my grandparents' house and we slept there. We spent the night there. If you guys haven't seen the other parts of
Join Jayden Lamb on a nostalgic road trip from Virginia to Colorado, revisiting his childhood home and sharing memories along the way.
Key Takeaways
- Childhood homes and familiar places hold deep emotional and educational value.
- Road trips can be both a journey of discovery and a way to reconnect with family and memories.
- Simple outdoor activities like biking, fishing, and playground play create lasting childhood memories.
- Sharing personal stories naturally supports English language learning through comprehensible input.
- Family traditions and celebrations, such as Easter services, enrich travel experiences.
Summary
- Jayden Lamb takes viewers on a road trip from Virginia to Colorado, stopping at his grandparents' house and his childhood home in Missouri.
- He describes his childhood memories at the red wraparound porch house where he lived from ages 4 to 6.
- Jayden recalls learning to ride a bike on a nearby hill and fishing at a lake across the street.
- He shows a detached garage and shares stories about birthday parties and playing games there.
- Across the street from his house is a farm with chickens, a koi pond, and a windmill, all part of his childhood environment.
- Jayden tours a nearby playground, reminiscing about climbing structures, swings, and animal statues he played on as a child.
- He mentions the early morning departure to continue the trip, including a stop at a church in Kansas for an Easter Sunday service.
- The video captures the changing scenery and family moments throughout the journey.
- Jayden shares lighthearted moments with his dog Maddox and reflects on the joy of childhood places.
- The trip concludes with arrival in Colorado, highlighting the natural beauty and wildlife seen along the way.
Chapters
- 00:00Starting the Road Trip and Visiting Grandparents
- 01:00Tour of Childhood Home and Porch Memories
- 01:55Learning to Ride a Bike and Nearby Lake Fishing
- 02:54Detached Garage and Birthday Party Memories
- 03:52Farm Across the Street with Chickens and Koi Pond
- 04:33Playground Tour and Childhood Adventures
- 06:47Morning Departure and Dog Maddox's Antics
- 12:15Easter Sunday Church Service in Kansas
- 14:24Continuing the Drive and Arrival in Colorado
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this journey, go and watch those. The first one was us going from Virginia to West Virginia, and the next one was us going from Virginia to here in Missouri.
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We drove here to my childhood home. That home right there, that red house, is a house that I grew up at. I spent the ages 4 to 6 at that house. So, we're going to continue on on this journey.
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We're going to continue on our trip tomorrow morning. That's when we leave and make the rest of the drive to Colorado. And I wanted to show you guys this house, which I actually spent my ages four, five, and six here living at
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this house. It's a pretty nice house. It's red and it's got all of these columns that go around around the porch.
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And it's a pretty nice porch. I don't remember too much, but we probably spent some time out on the porch, especially on nice days like this. It's pretty nice out right now. A little chilly but not too cold. This kind of porch is called a
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wraparound porch because it wraps all the way around the house. This is where I learned to ride a bike. I have really old memories of biking down this hill.
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And this hill felt so steep when I was biking. It felt like the steepest hill ever. But in reality, it's actually not that steep. It felt like I was going too fast and my dad had to come over and
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grab me and stop me because I was going too fast. But now, I don't know how that happened because it's not even that steep of a hill.
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This lake is literally across from my old house. Like you could go outside and walk across the street through this grass and then down there to the lake.
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And it's just a beautiful lake. Me and my brother used to come here and fish. I think we would take a fish hook and a fishing line and a fishing rod and hook a hot dog, a piece of a hot dog onto the
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end of our hook and we would cast it out into the water and we would get we actually got a lot of fish. We would get little bluegills is what they were called. That was super fun.
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This is a detached garage. It's a garage, but it's separated from the house. So, there's the house, and you have to go outside down those stairs to get to the detached garage. Most garages are connected to the house, but this one
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is detached. We used to play a lot of games back here, and this is where I had a birthday party. I had an Angry Birds themed birthday party, and it was the best birthday party of my life.
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Across the street in this direction. So, across the street from my house, that's the front of the house. Across the street from the front of the house is this farm. And there are chickens here.
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I remember that there are chickens. I think they're over there somewhere. And there's this pond, which is a koi pond.
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I don't see any koi in here right now, but there used to be koi in here and you could come and feed them. You would pay a quarter and put it in this little machine and then twist the handle and it
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would give you koi food, fish food. And so you could throw the fish food into the water and all the koi fish would come and eat it. That was so fun. There also used to be horses back here behind
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these fences. But look at this. The fences have collapsed. They've completely fallen. This is so sad.
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Did they do it on purpose? I don't know. Look at this. This is like completely crushed.
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So sad. They also have a giant windmill, which is so cool. I love windmills. This playground is just a block away from my house. It's not very far. And I'm going to take you on a tour and show you
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around. This is the crocodile. This was the most fun thing to run across. When we were tiny, we would try and balance and run across this thing.
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There's also this koi pond. They have another koi pond. This is a classic bridge. This brings me back.
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Smells like childhood. This is the playground. This is where we would come when we were so tiny. Just imagine a little me, like 5 years old, coming to this playground, coming up to this mountain of a rock. Like, how am I ever
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going to climb this thing? I was probably this tall. Ready. And we would actually get to the top of this thing and jump off. Literally, I was like 6 years old. I don't know how I had the guts to do it. I'm too scared
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right now. We also had this little thing with these springs, these giant springs in the middle that you could run across and bounce on. It's actually kind of dangerous.
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And these monkey bars right here. And this little thing, which I never figured out how to use.
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This place was heaven on earth to a little child. How could you ever be sad with such an amazing place like this?
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They also have a swing set here. And my butt spent many hours on this very seat.
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This very swing set. It was also in a gate so that us poor kids would not be able to escape like prison. But we actually loved it in here. It was the best prison ever.
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They also have three animal statues here. They've got this elephant, a giant giraffe over here. This thing is huge. Like probably life-sized actually.
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I wonder if these are life-sized, like the real size that they actually are. And there's a little baby giraffe back there. And we would always try and climb this guy. I don't remember if we ever actually got on the top. I remember that
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me and my brothers would always try and climb and my dad would always be like, "Guys, what are you doing? Get down.
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You're not allowed to climb that." But we would try and climb it anyways. Hello, old friend.
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It's good to see you again. It's good to see him still alive. We don't have much time because we have to hit the road. We have to go and see some family. But there's a fountain area over there. So, they have three
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different fountains that are shooting water up into the air. They have a green space that's over there. And that is a super cool place just to go and hang out in the green area. There was another playground that was here that I spent a
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lot of my childhood at. Just an amazing place to grow up. The houses are amazing. The everything here is super cool and amazing. Such a fun place.
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Like I said, we have to visit some family. We're not leaving yet, but we will leave tomorrow morning and make the rest of the drive to Colorado.
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It's 5:41 in the morning and I was up until 12:30. So, I only got 5 hours of sleep and it's time to go.
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WHAT THE HECK, DUDE? WHAT is wrong with you, dog? Rise and shine. You ready for the trip, Maddox?
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Oh, yeah. Wait, no. Actually, this is going to be horrible. Why? Because it's like what we did last time, but even longer.
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You're right. Go back to sleep. Okay. Bye. Wait, you again. I almost fell asleep.
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I never knew how happy I could be. I guess you can sleep in the car.
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Oh yeah. The thing is, even if you're really tired, you can always sleep in the car. My grandparents are still asleep. But I'm going to play them a goodbye song.
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I hope they liked that. That was beautiful. Thank you. The birds are awake. Such a nice sound to start your morning.
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It's good enough. Good enough for a yeah. After sleeping in the car, we woke up and Dad said we were at church. We came to a random church in Kansas and we went. Today is actually Easter Sunday.
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So, it's Easter. Christ has risen. The tomb is empty and we had a nice Easter Sunday service. An Easter Sunday church service at this random church in Kansas.
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Pretty good. Now, we're going back into the car. We have a lot more driving. I think about 10 hours. So, we better get to it.
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Actually, this is not a ra just a random church. Our dad actually found it and took us here. It was not entirely a random church. My dad did find it online and he was like, "Oh, this is already on
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our way from Missouri to Colorado, so let's stop here." But also kind of random. We're having quite the change of scenery here in Kansas. Things look pretty different. Maddox is going to give us a beat. He's going to give us a
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song as we drive. When Geeks had me to himself, he didn't want her around. Stem Glass Girl was all he wanted. Me was just a clown. Me was picked from the bunch and moved to Germany. A week later, STEM class girl broke hopeful
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dream. Oh, Maggie, give one more chance. show you. We're at a gas station getting some gas for our car. And a lot of people think that school buses are not actually yellow here in the States. I got something to tell you. Look at this.
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School bus. School bus. Yellow. Yellow. Yellow. Yellow. Yellow. Yellow. Yellow. Yellow. Yellow. So many. Look at this.
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Look at all these school buses. I don't know why there are so many school buses here, but as you can see, school buses here are indeed yellow. There's also a police truck here. Police cars are more common, but every once in a while there
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are pickup trucks that are police cars. Happy Easter. Dang it. He made his bottle explode.
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That was pretty good. Oh, shoot. It went a whole two feet. Actually, that was probably only one foot probably. But that's one foot further than you got.
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I didn't even try it. Where'd you go? Where'd you go? This is called the Allen Fieldhouse.
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It's where the college basketball team, the Kansas Jay-Hawks, play. We're on Kansas University right now. So, this is a really famous college and this is a really famous basketball team and they're usually really good.
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We stopped at a coffee shop. This is something we do once in a while on road trips. We'll stop and get some coffee.
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This place is called Uplift Coffee Shop. Let's see how their coffee is. They have a lot of coloring books here.
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So, you can stand here at this standing bar and you can color. I'm coloring an ice cream cone that has a face that's also a unicorn with strawberries floating in the air. And there's a bunch of stars here, too.
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I got a matcha, which is like a Japanese tea. Tastes like grass. Guys, we made it to Colorado.
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That is the sign. The state sign back there. We accidentally We accidentally passed it. We drove right past the state sign. So, there is my dad backing up the car. He he put the car in reverse and he's
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driving backwards so that we can get the car over to the state sign. After 20 something hours of driving, it felt like forever, guys.
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We are finally in colorful car Colorado. Colorful Colorado. Well, not yet. Maddox is climbing the sign. Something almost everyone does on road trips is they take a picture with the sign. So, we're going to get a picture here at the
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Colorado sign. I'm so squished. We climbed the sign. It hurts. It hurts really bad.
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And I have to pee. It was squeezing my bladder. I have to pee so bad now. In to Colorado.
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In. Out. In. Out. Lucky day. Oh, we did not put that here. I'm not joking. He actually just found that on the ground.
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I have no idea how old this is. Don't tell mom. Do not tell mom.
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We're right by the highway, so it's super loud. But look at the amount of bugs that we've captured on the front of this car. They all splatted all over the front.
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Jeez. That took a lot of effort to get that shot. Maddox got mad. Watch out for snakes, DUDE. STOP.
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Back on the road. Four and a half more hours. Still so far. Perfect time to edit a video.
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Of course, when you're on a long drive, you got to play Worms Open Warfare. It's this game where you're a bunch of worms and you have to attack each other and blow them up.
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And I'm really good. Yep. There I go. I almost died. That guy just punched Maddox. Maddox, don't kill me.
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I'm gonna kill him. No, I'm gonna kill him. No. Baseball bat. If I aim it just right.
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Oh yeah. No. It's just been so flat for forever. But finally, we made it to the mountains. It looks so good.
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We finally made it to our hotel in Colorado. We saw some crazy things on our drive here. We saw some amazing mountains. We saw a lot of wildlife, some animals. We saw so much on our way here. And it was
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such a long drive. And I don't know if you guys remember from the first video, the first video of our road trip, Maddx said that it was going to take so long to get here that he would have a beard
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by the time we got here. that we might be really old. We might be grandpas.
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I will probably have a beard by the time we get there. And well, he does. I don't know what happened.
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I don't either. It's been so long that he actually grew a beard. He grew up.
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I I can't explain it. It was a long journey. It was so long. If you want to see more comprehensible English videos just like this one that you can actually understand, then make sure to subscribe and watch the other videos if you still
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haven't seen them of this journey. And make sure to click this video. You are going to enjoy it. See you there.
Topics:road tripchildhood homeVirginia to Coloradofamily memoriesEnglish learningcomprehensible inputplayground tourfishingwraparound porchEaster Sunday
