I’M FROM MICHIGAN and my husband is from Florida, so we ended up becoming snowbirds decades earlier than most! Before selling our home in Michigan and going full time, we had our usual overnight stops along the 1,300-mile route—mostly campgrounds right off the highway that cost more than we preferred to spend, especially because we were usually only there for about 12 hours.
In 2020, the prices of those RV parks rose even further, so we started searching for alternatives. We liked the idea of boondocking, but we thought it was more for people traveling out west, staying in the
