It takes time to cross multiple state lines … sometimes. D'oh!

The problem with living on the west coast is that when you set a story on the east coast, you kind of forget that you can drive across four or more states in the same amount of time it takes to get from the Oregon coast to the Idaho state line.

And so it doesn’t really take very long to drive from Manhattan to North Carolina. And so, I must adjust a time frame and/or the setting.