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I’ve done a lot of car camping and figured some things out. Especially if you’re driving alone, you could do it pretty easily.
Another option (and it might not be too late to realize a savings) is to just buy a cheap tent and air mattress or something and find places to do real camping. You generally see more attractive scenery this way, which seems like something you’d enjoy if you like the different foods of the areas you’re in too. A cheap single burner stove and a thrift store pot and pan gets you making coffee and breakfast in the morning and reheating your dinner that you didn’t finish the night before. A cheap tent would be fifty bucks. Less than $100 would have you sleeping for free or for $25 a night or less for basically the rest of the trip, including the way back. Camping has gotten expensive lately but I’m sure you could slip in somewhere after dark, set up and sleep, and break down early and go. Hotels definitely add up.
Just like ecomodding, there are tons of ways to make road trips cheaper. You can make it a game just like hypermiling.
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