We have been on the road a year and 99% of the time we stay put one week and then move on. We have had times we have only moved 100 miles and then settled for another week but never farther than 250 miles.
We stay in state parks, private parks, COE, National and most certainly boondock when we can. It's a lot harder to boondock out east than farther west. We have never camped in a parking lot yet, but would.
I will admit that after one year on the road I'm almost looking forward to finding a spot to settle for 1 whole month later this winter.