500 miles can be done in a day and still get you nowhere. You didn't see anything because you haven't actually been anywhere. Maybe 500 miles is a lot for some

500 miles can be done in a day and still get you nowhere. You didn't see anything because you haven't actually been anywhere. Maybe 500 miles is a lot for someone coming from England, Switzerland or southeast Asia, but America is massive. 500 miles doesn't even get you through California. It would barely get you through Florida. In no case does your little collection of billboards represent the quality of life of "most" Americans. "Most" of us get on just fine without meth. You may as well have taken nothing but service roads for the full third world experience. Then you could complain about how nobody actually lives in America, it's full of unpaved roads and there is no infrastructure at all when you run out of gas on the side of a mountain.