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Taking A Road Trip in 1998 (Using Pay Phones, an Atlas, and 99 Cent Gas)

My So-Called Gen X Life | April 25, 2026



In March 1998, my college friends and I went on a random road trip through Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, and Nebraska. We took a camcorder with us. This is raw footage of that trip. I found this in a box of old VHS tapes.

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  1. @mysocalledgenxlife

    April 25, 2026 at 1:54 am

    The McDonald’s total for all three of us was less than $10. It’s hard to hear, but it was $9 and change.

    Also, the audio is like a second off for parts of the video. I’m not quite sure why.

  2. @LittleJoeTheMoonlightCat

    April 25, 2026 at 1:54 am

    0:17 You're beautiful in this scene Nat. And The Gas Pumps are like Wal*Mart 🎵Nobody cares what you wear just as long as long as you are there.🎵 And have cash. 2:07 Dante: I'M NOT EVEN SUPPOSE TO BE HERE TODAY! 2:49 You missed a golden opportunity to say "Good Bye Natalie" It would've been great. It's alright, you were driving. 3:15 Oops, Maybe you shouldn't have done that girls, Now everybody knows 😜. 5:00 Cams have come a long way since then. 8:36 Extreme Close-Ups of The Beauty Driving The Car. 10:20 CFN Karen Carpenter. It should be okay, It's Road Trip Music. 11:22 Tony Orlando & Dawn Invented Texting L😅L. 15:11 Aw the days of BiG GULP. 18:44 There you go Nat, They were Talking Smack about you. 18:53 Just like Dad, He would be driving and flick the cherries out The Window 22:07 Good thing they got that on video, Kids today wouldn't know what a BiG GULP is. 23:20 Oh so Nat wants to be The Dom. 31:06 Aw, The Supersize Days, We all know who's to blame for The death of Supersize Meals. Morgan Spurlock. He's dead Jim. 35:48 Beautiful Ginger, Like Ann Magnuson from Making Mr. Right (1987) Feel better now that your clean Nat. Good thing you didn't Notice. 36:03😻. 28:20 Yeah everything's covered, just making sure the hair is right. It looks good Nat. March 98, so it's 28 years later. I like The Ginger in The Bathroom. 39:42 I wouldn't make you take Frozen Showers, you can have first. 40:34 Well it would've been 35 if they didn't use up all The Hot Water, right Nat? You needed a 15 Minute Thaw. 41:07 😻😻😻😻😻😻😻😻😻😻😻😻 STOP, MERCY, YOUR BEAUTIFUL! 🎵KNOCK THREE TIMES🎵43:17 No, it was 5 Minutes for The Arctic 🧊🧊❄❄🥶🚿 + 10 Minutes to get dressed + 10 Minutes for The Hair and Primping, and 20 Minutes to Thaw = 45 Minutes. The Hair was only 10 Minutes, and it looks good. 43:48 Yeah I'm here, Jaimie. 44:00 Oh, there's the cutie with a smile. 47:03 You are Hot Natalie. 48:42 A $2.00 Movie? can't do that anymore. If I need to jDNF at The 17 Minute Mark The film is not worth my Time. 17 Minutes is where all The Plot and Character Development happens. I'll be back, my 💻 needs Charging 49:42 Okay Any film that puts me to sleep is a ⭐2/10 on IMDb. And that's bad. 50:26 You can follow me 😜. 59:09 ABBA, knowing Me knowing You. I think it's when ABBA broke up. 1:02:47 🎵AND I'M FREE____, FREE FALLIN'🎵 1:03:24 That's a cool transition. 1:09:00 It's not time for OKTOBERFEST. 1:10:55 It was originally called SUPER 8 because that was the price of a room. and Motel 6 was Cheaper by $2.00.1:12:27 Oh Wow a CRT 📺, They got rid of that. Score Ashtrays, Dad always swiped The Ashtrays. Love the Cam, this is great to show the kids how vids were made in the 80s and 90s before everything went Digital, Great Selfie. 1:17:07 Cutie on The Phone. 1:22:52 Yeah it's a Lie, Natalie wasn't born in 1976, she was born in 1977. 1:23:43 😻I'm in love. 😻😻😻😻😻PLEASE STOP, UNCLE, UNCLE, UNCLE! 😻 YOU'RE BEAUTIFUL, 😻UNCLE!😻1:36:15 Oh, wow, They don't make those old analog things, anymore, this is a history lesson. 1:36:32 Nozzle. 1:36:51 87 great Number. 😿CFN Analog Pump, You will be missed. 1:38:08 Topping off The Tank. YAY, $10.00. 1:40:00 That was a fun Video, The best part was The Short haired Red Head Diving the car, she's a hottie.

  3. @adifferentview1976

    April 25, 2026 at 1:54 am

    This is wicked awesome! I absolutely think you were ahead of your time. Dif uou use a steady cam to video this, because you keep the camera quite steady while in the back of the car. I love Lawrence, Kansas. I went there once and that is where the TV show "Supernatural" with Dean and Sam Winchester are from. How old were uou in 1998? Were you 21?

  4. @SJHFoto

    April 25, 2026 at 1:54 am

    I should mention one more thing: you know the trip I said I took in 1999 that spanned 5000 miles? I still have that car-a '97 Civic that I bought new. I have over 400,000 miles now (I make a vid every 25k miles on my channel)

  5. @SJHFoto

    April 25, 2026 at 1:54 am

    Funny you have a video of this. I took a roadtrip in 1999 that went from Marathon Ontario to Phoenix Arizona to Lancaster Pennsylvania! Absolutely loved it!

  6. @coupdeforce

    April 25, 2026 at 1:54 am

    Most kids today have no idea that old cars had ash trays everywhere. On the doors and in the center consoles especially, but also other random places depending on the car. And the cigarette lighters came standard as part of the car.

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