Also important factors.....who is paying the bill for the trip, is there a deadline for getting to the destination, and are you doing the trip for "work" or "pleasure".
One of my trips south took me along some very interesting country until I broke through the Rockies at Jasper....then it was 135 Degrees Heading for a couple of Days....and the further I went...the flatter and less attractive it got until I hit parts of Texas and Oklahoma where there were thousands of abandoned houses and those Wind Mill water pump things standing up everywhere.
Had I been at umpteen thousand feet....I would have missed all that....which would have been a shame as I would have missed a History Lesson.
Reading Town Names off Water Towers and Train Stations can be interesting as well....or getting the mileage to some City from an Interstate Highway Sign.
Stopping at a small airstrip and sharing a Cup of Coffee with the locals is not a bad thing either.
This business of Helicopter Flying is supposed to be "fun" and sometimes being able to just fly the machine and enjoy the scenery reminds us of why we took up this profession of ours. Those chances are rare.....don't waste them!