Well, I have to describe Texas (Resistol over red heart) now.
First, it's big, second, it's very varied.
In far East Texas the average rainfall is more than fifty inches per year, in far West Texas, where I am, it is ten or a little less. The terrain is flat, hilly, mountainous (small ones), depending on what part of the state you're in. There are forests and desert.
It's farther from here to the Houston area than to California.
I could go on, but you get the picture.