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One of my last big goals in life is to hit all 50 states by 50, with a trip to Hawaii for my 50th birthday.
I’m down to 12, with 3 good road trips and one family visit to Oregon, I’ll be set for the Hawaii capstone. I have 5 years to do it.
Next summer I’ll most likely knock out Texas, Arkansas, and Oklahoma. I’ve been to Texas and Oklahoma but only airports so I don’t count them. Hotel stops for that one since I’ll be with my daughter.
The ambitious trip is planned for 2025: take my dog and drive up through Michigan, across Wisconsin, Minnesota and North Dakota to Deadwood. Then back through North Dakota, possibly swinging west across Wyoming to see Utah and New Mexico before heading home. Again, I’ve been to airports in New Mexico, Wisconsin, and Michigan, but I don’t count that.
For this one, the plan is to mostly sleep in my car with a few shower stops mixed in.
If I can complete that plan, Oregon will be the last state standing in my way of that Hawaii trip.
I sleep in my Cayenne each time we go to our camp spot. Switched from a tent to it and will never go back to a tent. I do add plywood board to make it flat. It was down-pouring few years ago and was dry as can be inside Whenever I do my next drive out west trip I’ll do hotels and car camp, it’s free to camp in any national forest, just not on a trail or 10 ft from campground. I follow tons of people on YouTube who 4x4 and camp along the way in the western mtns.
I've had a few camping trips that got dicey, where I ended up sleeping in a vehicle, not by choice.
Once I had just bedded down in a tent, had a flashlight on, and saw the biggest fricken spider I've ever seen in my life walking up my sleeping bag. It looked wicked. I was out of there instantly, dragging my sleeping bag with me. It was pitch black out, and peering back into the tent and all around with the flashlight that spider was nowhere to be seen. Was it in? Was it out? I wimped out and spent a cramped, cold night sleeping in the reclined driver's seat of a small car instead.
I've had a few camping trips that got dicey, where I ended up sleeping in a vehicle, not by choice.
Once I had just bedded down in a tent, had a flashlight on, and saw the biggest fricken spider I've ever seen in my life walking up my sleeping bag. It looked wicked. I was out of there instantly, dragging my sleeping bag with me. It was pitch black out, and peering back into the tent and all around with the flashlight that spider was nowhere to be seen. Was it in? Was it out? I wimped out and spent a cramped, cold night sleeping in the reclined driver's seat of a small car instead.
Often. I call it "working for the bomber command" because for what I am doing, I give it my all but once away, tired, pooped, it often ends up I need a location to drop down to for some rest.
I have my LZs figured out, some of them even calculated to the mile from the last land mark for when I have to find them in the dark.
I do sleep in alert position, seat in Apollo couch style but feet free, keys in the ignition, in case I need to go for an immediate take off.
Further, along the interstate, the rest stops are fewer.......but they are often DPS staging areas.
There's a whole Youtube genre dedicated to road trip camping in your vehicle. Some folks have some pretty elaborate vehicle setups. Kinda entertaining to watch.
Trying to sleep in a sedan is a miserable prospect unless you can lay in the back seat with your legs straight. I'd never intentionally do this, but unfortunately had to try once or twice.
On the other hand, I've slept in the back of an SUV with the seats down on several occasions. Prepared with a pad, sleeping bag, and pillow... I find it perfectly fine when it's just me. Ideally it would be someplace quiet, like a campground. I have tried to sleep at interstate highway rest areas, but they're noisy... semi tractors with the engines running, car doors slamming, highway noise, etc.
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Whenever I do my next drive out west trip I’ll do hotels and car camp, it’s free to camp in any national forest, just not on a trail or 10 ft from campground. I follow tons of people on YouTube who 4x4 and camp along the way in the western mtns.
