Trip planning?

It seems like where you stop may depend very much on whether you're retired.  I'm not retired yet, so when I go somewhere I rarely get more than a week and two weekends.  9 days.  And I often go somewhere at least a good day and a half away, sometimes more.  And I'm not wandering.  I'm on a mission to get to my destination.  I'm not very interested in spending 6 or 10, or more, waking hours enjoying some campground along the way. 

We did take a trip a couple of years ago that had some slop in the schedule, and several interim destinations as well.  I had more than 9 days that time.  It was pretty durn enjoyable and we even stumbled on to an unexpected National Park that we took the time to visit.  I plan on retiring this year, so maybe I'll slow down and do more of that kind of traveling.  That said though, I don't know that I'll give up Walmarts and truck stops for those nights I'm in between places I want to be.  I mean, you can pull of the interstate and be asleep in your Pod in 30 minutes.  In the morning, you just wake up, maybe fix a cup of coffee, and go.  It's a very rare campground where you can do that.  The only thing bertter, in my opinion, would be an interstate truck stop, but on my travels I rarely run across a state that allows overnights.  I think Alabama does, and I transit Alabama the long way, from north to south, and back, every year but never have spent the night there.

Pods give you the freedom to travel just about anyway you want, which is great.  I'm glad to hear about people who do things differently than I do -- it gives me ideas. 

TT

I also did not wait till late in the day to start looking.

Allstays became the 'go-to' app on the run. With 'freecampsites.net' being in the mix. After talking to another on the road, I started using Google and found it works pretty well.

Being the Maritimes run was in Canada, I had 3 other apps with me dedicated (or mostly) to Canada. Never went to them..