I had mixed feelings riding roads like this in Texas. On the one hand, 80+ is darned fast. On the other hand, at least where I was the vehicles were so infrequent I could hear them a half-mile away. At night, make that a mile or more.

Where I lived west of Ft. Worth, all the fresh overlays had super course aggregate on the shoulders, making them unpleasant on road tires. That really sucked.