As we travel in our home on wheels, there are mainly four things that we concern ourselves with in order to maintain our self-sustained status: fuel, water, toilet disposal, and sleeping spot. Subsequently, irrespective of which country we are in, we are on a constant hunt for petrol stations; rivers, lakes or taps for water source; public toilets or facilities to dispose our human waste; and every night we search for a safe and hopefully quiet place to sleep. Depending on the country these four elements have varying degrees of availability.
For campervan-friendly Europe, everything is easily available but at a cost. In Mongolia, while sleeping spots are abundant but due to a lack of infrastructure the other three elements were a little more difficult to obtain. Meanwhile the opposite applies to China, where fuel stations are as numerous as in Russia, public toilets and water hoses aplenty. But every day finding free space to set camp for a quiet night’s sleep proved to be a mission.