That is soooo true! And I already feel blessed that I can drive to Amsterdam and Paris in one weekend, and still sleep in my own bed at night!
One evening, a few years ago, I asked my wife after dinner what she wanted to do, and she said “drink a coffee under the Eifel tower”. So we hopped in the car, drove to Paris, parked at about 100m of the Eifel tower, drank something, walked around a bit, and when all the nice lights of Paris went dark, we drove back home.