“Idaho has 75 MPH on the interstates. Distances between cities is significant.”
Back during the stupid speed limit times I was somewhere in Wyoming or Montana doing 80 on a lonely highway in the middle of nowhere when Cadillac came roaring up behind me, slowed then passed. A cowboy was driving with the seat all the way back, his left leg hanging out the window resting on the side mirror. He had one hand on the wheel and tipped his hat to me as he blew on down the road doing at least 100.
That’s when I realized how folks who live out there deal with the the vast distances.