I was once on vacation in San Antonio and was getting bored after about a week. While doing my laundry I found a map showing sights in the area. Carlsbad Caverns was only about an inch from San Antonio on this map so I told my wife, look its close, lets go see the Caverns. While an interesting drive it was almost 10 hours away at 474 miles! The scale of the map was a bit off I think. From there we went to El Paso, only 151 miles away. When I left New Mexico I had about a half tank of gas. I did not see another sign of civilization until I was about 10 miles from El Paso and almost out of gas!!
This country is huge!!