New England (U.S. region)

New England unfolds as a driving corridor of thin winter light, a stitched landscape of mapled main streets, salt-tinged coastlines, and rolling interstate ribbons. Characters experience it as transit territory—long, rhythmic miles that compress distance and time, where weather and small-town logistics reshape travel plans. Politically it reads as a stretch of jurisdictions and voter textures, a backdrop that converts a delayed drive into tactical complications and narrative momentum.