For the anglophiles ...
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Four hours barely gets the car warmed up. That's a round trip to the city for errands .
During the 55 mph years, it took the average person ( read that non Texan) 3 days to cross Texas
We had a station (ranch) bigger than Texas, called victoria river downs.
Aussie, you drive for hours, you see no other sign of humanity and you're still in the back end of nowhere.
Don't disillusion those unfortunate Texans. They're still traumatised after discovering that Alaska is substamtially more than twice their size.
They would be heartbroken to realise that apart from the island of Tasmania, every single state in Oz is far larger than Texas.
@Petter Well, truth be told, the US doesn't cover the whole continent, either. Oz does.