You don’t drive nearly as much as I do out of our neighborhood, out of the Sacramento area. The condition of the roads and related infrastructure is pretty much the same just about everywhere that I’ve been in the past decade or two. I think I’ve only seen it otherwise the few times we’ve ventured out of state, into Nevada or Oregon.
It’s almost obvious, just as you cross the state line, that the roads suddenly become better on the not-California side of the line.
Which now has me realizing that I don’t think we’ve taken the current Jeep out of California. The first Jeep, before it sank, had been to Nevada at least two or three times, and once into Oregon.