When you cross the border on a highway from Illinois to Wisconsin, you suddenly run into big porno stores. A trick of geography, maybe?
This was particularly dramatic at the height of the drought … California was dry harsh and barren … but just over the Siskiyou Pass road crews were busy hacking the forest off the I-5 roadbed …
Yeah, I lived in Fort Collins for a while, had clients in Cheyenne.
Perhaps they want you to look at, not just smell, their dairy air? 
Last year?!? I thought this was the same thread.
Eastern Shore of MD on RT 13 going into DE crossing from Wicomico County into Sussex at the RT 54 divide. Suddenly payday and car title loan stores are everywhere and motorcyclists are not required to wear helmets.
Chefguy:
And it’s even more dramatic if you do it by motorcycle!
With a rocket motor!
When you cross at one point from the Republic to Northern Ireland, you know because of the Derry air.
Disclaimer: this is very unsafe. These guys are just being evel.
There’s not a lot of difference between southern Colorado and northern New Mexico, except in the Durango area. Just north of the state line the San Juan Mountains rise up to 13,000-14,000 feet (4,000-4,300 meters). Northwestern New Mexico is relatively flat.
The other difference is all the recreational marijuana dispensaries in the southern Colorado towns.
Crossing from Virginia into Maryland just outside DC, the ground abruptly changes to water!
(The border is actually on the Virginia coast of the Potomac, not the middle of the river).
The change from Arkansas to Missouri has always been notable–because the road quality changes very quickly. Arkansas takes longer to fix up its roads, likely due to money issues. The Missouri road is always smoother.
I’ve heard people say this is true going other directions, but I’ve only regularly been across the Missouri/Arkansas border. It’s been too long for me to remember going any other direction.
Yeah howdy.
I used to drive between St. Louis and Memphis a couple times a year. The fastest highway route is south across Missouri to Arkansas, then south through Arkansas until abeam Memphis, the east to Memphis. Tennessee roads were no great shakes. But Arkansas’ roads reminded me of the 1960s. With 1990s traffic.
And this was the interstates, largely maintained with Federal funds. Pulling off and driving around on state route so-and-so was an adventure.
Also, crossing AR to OK on state roads, the roads that are 55MPH ( AR ) and follow the original wagon trails and the ( 65 MPH ) roads in OK which were built for 65 MPH are way different.
That is why bikers like AR, the riding is great and with only a few exceptions, there is way less traffic.
Yeah, AR is poor and Federal funds are only part of the $$$$ needed.
If you don’t have a lot, it is a pretty cheap place to live.
According to John McPhee in Rising From The Plains, I-80 in Wyoming has been closed by snow every month of the year save August.
I believe it. Semi-trucks will sleep in our Walmart parking lot while it’s closed. It’s quite a sight when it re-opens.
NY/VT, VT roads are in better condition, less potholes, less tar, and wider shoulder, also many have a greenish tint.
Heh, I was just walking by the Potomac with my daughter the other day and pointed out how the land-water boundary was the Virginia-DC boundary. Somehow the Calverts wangled the whole river out of Virginia in colonial times, though I never found out why.