When 2 hours is a short drive and you’re making it between multiple destinations it just becomes sooo long too. You need 3 days to go to three “close” destinations. The US is massive and the sprawl is real. No car? Sucks. On a tight budget? Sucks. Tight on time? Sucks. The USA has some of the prettiest places on earth but we kinda make pretty places hard/expensive to get to. And when you’re there you have people who saved for 50 weeks to go there for 3 days and so everything is massively crowded.
It can all be done and accommodated but it isn’t as easy as small/walkable/cheaper European countries.
When 2 hours is a short drive and you’re making it between multiple destinations it just becomes sooo long too. You need 3 days to go to three “close” destinations. The US is massive and the sprawl is real. No car? Sucks. On a tight budget? Sucks. Tight on time? Sucks. The USA has some of the prettiest places on earth but we kinda make pretty places hard/expensive to get to. And when you’re there you have people who saved for 50 weeks to go there for 3 days and so everything is massively crowded.
It can all be done and accommodated but it isn’t as easy as small/walkable/cheaper European countries.