[Bruno]

My old friend had some family come to visit from Germany for a week. They were planning to spend a few days in Ottawa with their relatives, take a day trip to the west coast and see the totem poles and the Rockies on the way, take a day trip to the east coast to see Newfoundland, and a day trip north to see the Polar bears. By car.

Needless to say, they did not see the totem poles, the Rockies, the Polar bears, or Newfoundland.

My friend's relatives had a poor grasp of the scale of Canada (they were used to thinking of Germany as one of the really big countries in Europe, so Canada's really big, it must be, like, two or three times as big, right?).

Your players need their own sense of scale adjusted. :D