I refuse to use the "new" names for any of these places...
But yeah, otherwise, that sounds like... The reality of roadtrips in Aus, too. People have massive expectations of what they'll be like, but in reality... Most places away from the coast are pretty... Same-y.
Not completely dull, but same-y. And full of mining towns, which is our equivalent of your tar sands and the like, lol...
Admittedly, there's no national borders to cross, so... There's that, I guess. Though it feels like, right now... Each of the states is acting like a separate country, with all the bullshit that brings, including ramping up "nationalistic"/parochial rhetoric against "out of staters"... So that's... Fun. :-/
*Queen Charlotte Islands, no?
I refuse to use the "new" names for any of these places...
But yeah, otherwise, that sounds like... The reality of roadtrips in Aus, too. People have massive expectations of what they'll be like, but in reality... Most places away from the coast are pretty... Same-y.
Not completely dull, but same-y. And full of mining towns, which is our equivalent of your tar sands and the like, lol...
Admittedly, there's no national borders to cross, so... There's that, I guess. Though it feels like, right now... Each of the states is acting like a separate country, with all the bullshit that brings, including ramping up "nationalistic"/parochial rhetoric against "out of staters"... So that's... Fun. :-/
My lasting memories of Australian highways was all of the "Fatigue kills" signage.
"Don't fall asleep and kill yourself, dummy!", lol
It's funny because the same could definitely be said of boring, long Canadian highways, but there's no similar PSA preachiness.
Maybe it's because for one half of the year it's ice on the road that kills you and for the other half, it's smashing into moose and deer.