Yes, well, I was listening to some New Yorkers while they stood looking into the Grand Canyon as they said, “Is this all there is?”. In response to the lengthy car trip to get to the Grand Canyon, another one said, “I thought we’d never get through Kansas.” A third one answered,”We should have flown. What a waste of time this trip has been.”
I think every American should take a coast to coast car trip. Yes, we are a huge country and we can only appreciate it largeness by walking, biking or car tripping.
I am not sure how everyone can appreciate its greatness if they cannot see.
Copper Canyon in Mexico is even bigger that the Grand Canyon.
(Most people don't know that)
We love to drive and observe.
The seeming sameness and for some bleakness can be overcome by eating. One experiment is to sample the chicken fried steak at various western locations along the way........it is the same but always a little different.
Another and in my view mandatory device is a National Park Service Pass Port. The pass port allows you to gather stamps at all National Parks and Monuments, and Battlefields. The stamps provide an irrefutable dated record when memory becomes hazy about when you went where
If you are a senior, you can buy a pass that lets you go to all free
In my youth I went from coast to coast and border to border more than once, on motorcycles and on my thumb. If you want to see big, go to Alaska.
"Upon seeing Iguazu, the United States First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt reportedly exclaimed "Poor Niagara!" (which, at 50 m or 165 feet, are a third shorter).
Often Iguazu also is compared with Victoria Falls in Southern Africa, which separates Zambia and Zimbabwe. Iguazu is wider, but because it is split into approximately 275 discrete falls and large islands, Victoria has the largest curtain of water in the world, at more than 1,600 m (5,249 ft) wide and over 100 m (328 ft) in height (in low flow Victoria is split into five by islands; in high flow it may be uninterrupted). The only wider falls are extremely large rapid-like falls, such as the Boyoma Falls (Stanley Falls).
With the flooding of the Guaíra Falls in 1982, Iguazu currently has the sixth-greatest average annual flow of any waterfall in the world, following Niagara, with an average rate of 1,746 m3/s (61,660 cu ft/s).
Its maximum recorded flow was 45,700 m3/s (1,614,000 cu ft/s) in June 9, 2014.
By comparison, the average flow of Niagara Falls is 2,400 m3/s (85,000 cu ft/s), with a maximum recorded flow of 8,300 m3/s (293,000 cu ft/s).
The average flow at Victoria Falls is 1,088 m3/s (38,420 cu ft/s), with a maximum recorded flow of 7,100 m3/s (250,000 cu ft/s).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iguazu_Falls