People from Europe especially UK don’t have ANY idea just how big the US is.
I met an Australian who had landed in California, rented a car and driven to the East Coast. Along the trip, his hair fell out from stress. He told me that in Australia, there are a few cities on the coast, and it is empty inland, but in the U.S., every hill you crest has another huge city below. Hill after hill after hill.
“People from Europe especially UK don’t have ANY idea just how big the US is.”
I lived in Europe for a couple of years, during my Army service. My wife, daughter and I drove to nine countries. It was a long two day drive, from our South German town to my wife’s ancestral villages on the south Adriatic coast of Italy.
I grew up in part in the great expanses of the American West.
I have met a number of Europeans, who made it a point to travel all across North America, by car. So I guess I disagree with your claim.
One such was a distant cousin, originally from the Maritimes of Canada, who now resides in Edinburgh, Scotland due to marriage.
He was in my West Coast beach town a few years back, to visit relatives, having driven all the way across America.
Conclusion: I have met a number of travelers from Europe, who decide they best way to visit and see America is by car, and they say they love it all.
“People from Europe especially UK don’t have ANY idea just how big the US is”
Says here just shy of 3.7 million square miles, behind Russia, Canada and China. That about right?