I'm sort of with you on that. But if I'm going to take a long get-away-from-it-all-for-awhile drive, I like to know exactly where I'm going. Usually it's an area I'm pretty much familiar with.
For example, living all but one of my nearly 60 years in stinking ugly grouchy bad air New York City, I love to take a drive Upstate to take in the clean fresh air and beautiful scenery up there: mountains/hills, forests, lakes, streams, waterfalls, and, being a onetime geology major, the incredible rock outcrops there and along the way, some of which are fossil bearing.
Well, I’m a ‘SouthWesterner’
Long drives are no big deal to a lot of us. Some folks commute 100 miles a day round trip between work and home. And where I live now, the nearest grocery store is a 40 mile round trip.
I studied a bit of geology and mineralogy — Have a degree in Mining Engineering, and traveled the world for 20 years looking for interesting deposits.