Yep. My brother went to school at the University of Houston. So one Summer when he was taking classes, I decided to drive down there ... from the Cleveland area. So it took me about 14 hours to get to the Texas border. I was excited. "Almost there," I thought. 8 hours later I arrived in Houston. And that was just a SHORT jaunt down the one corner.
It took me about 11 hours to drive from the Cleveland area to Winona, MN. That took me through about 3.5 states. That's the same time as driving from Houston to El Paso.
But ... Alaska is MUCH bigger. Texas is about 268,000 square miles and is twice as big as California, the next largest after Texas. But Alaska is a whopping 663,000 square miles. You could put about 2.5 Texases inside Alaska. And the largest Canadian province is 808,000 square miles. There are FIVE Canadian provinces larger than Texas.