I did it in America by being a ferry pilot. Moving aircraft coast to coast across the States for dealers. Great experience, dealing with airports I had never been to before and weather on route. I've been to 42 of the 50 US States now, including Alaska. Logistics was a lot of fun, trying to work out where to stay that night or how to get to a plane in the middle of Montana.
As a flight instructor you never get off the local sectional. You don't get to fly much either as the student is and your sitting there watching.
There's an instructor at my home airport that has about 4,000hrs that didn't move on when the time was right and is now the most jadded individual you'll ever meet...