I lived in Houston back in the 1980s, when people still used paper maps. I stopped at a convenience store on the way home one one evening and a man asked for directions to El Paso. He had been driving from Florida since that morning. He didn’t believe me when I told him that he wasn’t half way there yet.
The good news was that the directions were easy. Just get back on IH-10 and keep going west for another 750 miles.
Stationed in Germany.
German acquaintance asked me if he could see the Statue of Liberty and drive out to the Grand Canyon that day.
A little quick in my head math - roughly 2500 miles times 1.6 kilometers gives about 4000 kilometers. The look on his face was priceless. Proceeded to educate him over a few beers. He wasn’t stupid; fairly smart actually. But a map of Germany covers one page; a map of the US covers one page. Nobody looks at that little scale in the corner. I knew better, had few Phoenix-East Coast runs under my belt on motorcycles from military transfers. Oh yeah - It’s a four-day run.
If you’re doing I-10, one day is Texas (grin). It was February.
I believe most Europeans have no idea of the scale of this place. A lot of them are finding out with their World Cup travels.