As some posters said, stay off the sterile interstates and take the secondary roads. And do some research on interests along the route you plan to take. I’m a great planner, right down to the nat’s eyebrow. But that seems to satisfy my urge to plan and when I leave I just wander indiscriminately. If I see something of interest I may take off in an entirely different direction. I’m a history buff, especially military history, so I try to hit those places. But the route there may be quite erratic. Works for me, no stress, no schedules, and no reservations. And no big cities, freeways or interstates.
In the west it works fine locating a camp spot, there’s a lot of public land. Elsewhere it is probably more difficult. But the few times I’ve been in that situation the DW just looks up a CG in range and calls ahead for a spot. I don’t recall even not getting one.
