Talk about conveniences, it will be hard for me to go back to road trips with a car. With my motor home, we often pulled off to the side of a road when I needed some rest, to use the bathroom, or to have lunch. Because we often took highways that cut through forests or mountainous areas, the rest stops were usually by a stream whose valley was followed by the road, or under the tree canopy, or both.
In our last trip, which was up Californian Coastal Hwy 1, I needed to rest for lunch after a couple of hours of driving on that twisty road, so pulled over to rest on the shoulder and to have lunch with an ocean view, and a breeze blowing through the side window. After lunch, I decided to stay a bit longer as we had plenty of time to reach the next destination. I was about to doze off in bed when a patrol car stopped to see if we had any problem. After seeing that we were just resting, he drove off.
Ah, the hard life of a retiree with a gassed up RV! If my wife is not tied up with her familial duty and can travel more, who knows how much I would be spending in gasoline each year?