What to do on a sunny day is among my practical considerations. Vans in the sun get hot. Hotter in the summer. Hotter in the desert.
They also get cold in cold weather or just on cool nights. Handling a cold metal bodied laptop is unpleasant. Typing with cold fingers is quickly tiring.
So my advice is to take a trip in whatever vehicle you have and try to work from it and see how you feel about the process of learning to live on the road.
Because if you don’t like learning how to live on the road, every vehicle will be equally unsuited for your happiness.
The realities of sleeping, eating, defecting, and bathing away from home don’t change much between a tent and an RV. How will you deal with noise at night? What will you do for meals? What is your potty plan? Where does bath water come from?
And of course, where will you park tonight?
If you’re not ready to give it a shot with what is readily available right now, that’s probably a tell that the idea of being a person who does that is more attractive than the deeds of doing it.
And that’s ok. Good luck.
I had a mini-AC unit (basically just a fan that blows air through some ice water) which works pretty well as long as I have a steady supply of ice.
Life on the road is camping
Tent, Hotel, Van, RV
Doesn't matter
It's always camping
Anyway, a tent large enough to stand up in will still roll up small enough to fit in the trunk. With a folding chair and folding table, it's an office.
But a folding a chair and a shade tree in is an office too if you learn to work with the laptop in your lap.
37.815104, -96.851884 is a place I once worked one morning in early June, 2017.
Also "Ask HN: What are your tips for working offline?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36392391 with only one comment but it seems to be from a software developer.
It's totally doable. I've met some people living out of their cars and hop into Starbucks or some coffee shop for a few hours to sink wash and work.
I have mobile Internet myself so I am always connected no matter what I'm at.. and I will say it's about 95% available where T-Mobile is. I have a solar panel and a power generator for charges to my laptop. I can't say I've done this full-time or as my lifestyle, but I am currently in the process of renting out three peropeties I own and just temporary living place-to-place wherever I feel like it. I do not have kids and am recently no longer in a relationship.
It really all depends on what your life affords you... you only live once. Live how you want to live and enjoy your life. I personally say GO FOR IT. Try it for a month. If you like it, you found a new way to live minimally. If you don't, you can always return home. Make sure you at least have access to several clean clothes, deoderant, baby wipes/adult wipes, water, and some food.
Depending on where you plan to travel, you may run into some parking restrictions, but for the most part, most places don't care. I know I've slept in a 24/7 Walmart parking lot in Texas and a cop woke me up. I also have heard stories about California no longer letting you sleep near/on the beaches at night though the meters stop around 5 or 6 PM and the cops are more laxadasical when it comes to where you park your car when the meters ain't runnin'. At least from when I traveled cross Cali and slept on a new beach ever night, it was allowed.
Throttling has not been a problem for me for several years.
If it became one, I would add a pay as you go phone to cover the gap.
Mine does. i avoid videos like the plague, as they're the big bandwidth hogs. With just a little discretion, bandwidth goes a long way.