travel questions

[Kali]

6. my friend is pushing the campervan idea

and she has been before so that is another point on that column.

I do live in the desert southwest and we have sharp and bitey and venomous things all over the place so I am somewhat familiar with all of that, though we only have three types of venomous reptiles and the lizard is slow and rarely seen. (actually so is one of the snakes)

while I can take American junk food, my friend tends to want to eat local (though not especially much junk) so that may be something to budget some extra for. I expect we can picnic some of the time and if we do the campervan, breakfast is easy to prepare in camp rather than hitting the road and hunting for it. (all I really need is coffee LOL)

How is the situation for just pulling off the road and camping? I used to do that here in Arizona a lot back in the 70s and 80s, but unless you really drive way off on a deserted side road you just can't do it much any more. Too much traffic and too many settlers/traffic everywhere.