In the US, there's a good chance you haven't even left your state either
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If you fell asleep at the beginning of a 4 hour drive where I live, and woke up at the end, odds are very very high that you wouldn't be able to tell any difference in the surroundings.
I-10 driving across Texas...
It's a shorter drive getting the San Diego, California to El Paso, Texas than from El Paso to Beaumont Texas on the same road.
Texas likes to flex this by having a sign right when you enter from Louisiana saying that El Paso was 895 miles away or something like that.