That's one thing about the American landscape: it has undeniable scale, writ large!
I do recall seeing wide, flattish vistas driving through France, and would have (now) liked to have stopped and lingered, but the stuff I was doing, if anything, was misguided Kodachrome for stock, most of which did very little to repay the effort. I didn't really want to shoot landscape, but felt I shouldn't pass up the opportunities.
Today, especially after the advent of digital, I see those lost chances with different eyes and another perspective altogether. Timing, they say, is all. When it's not location, of course.
Rob