Driving across the country on long road trips, I have noticed this. At night, you can't see the general type of land around you, whether you're in plains, deserts, mountains, you can't really tell. The only thing that you can see are the interstates lit up by orange streetlamps and neon signs of businesses. Most of these businesses are restaurants and stores that are national chains. Everywhere you go...Red Lobster, Carlos O'Kelly's, McDonald's, Taco Bell, Wal-Mart, Pier 1, Starbucks, Barnes and Noble. The same gas stations, the same headlights. We are so homogenized.