Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

I have no shame in saying I drove for 2 hours through Kansas without anything more than an occasional glance at the road. The whole trip from NYC back to LA I spent more time looking at my phone than I did driving. You can drive hundreds of miles of interstate without seeing more than a handful of cars, then all of a sudden you reach a city limit and boom there's hundreds of cars everywhere. I kept feeling really claustrophobic and anxious in town and not feeling relaxed until I could see the road leading to the horizon.