Yes, it is. I used to drive from Chicago, on the southern tip of Lake Michigan, to Charleston, South Carolina, about 2/3 the way down the east coast, for a trip of roughly 920 miles. If you look at those two cities on a map, you'll see that you can go quite a bit farther north and south of those places. And that doesn't even count east coast to west coast of the US - over 2000 miles, depending on the route.