Just recharge your computer wherever you stay at night.
Truck stops these days have WiFi, too, but you have to pay for it. If you're going to be traveling the major interestates, get a one-month subscription to a particular brand of truck stop internet... Or you can just do the "drive around in residential neighborhoods trick."
Having a computer on the road is nearly essential. Use it to find awesome and bizzare people to stay with via couchsurfing. Find people who need rides from one city to the next on craiglist, and they'll subsidize your gas. Use wikipedia to look up escoterica about the place you're visiting (it would be very awesome to have some kind of internet that worked in the car, so that you could know about things as you drove by them, but cellphone internet right now is slow and extremely expensive).
Re: epic roadtrip
Truck stops these days have WiFi, too, but you have to pay for it. If you're going to be traveling the major interestates, get a one-month subscription to a particular brand of truck stop internet... Or you can just do the "drive around in residential neighborhoods trick."
Having a computer on the road is nearly essential. Use it to find awesome and bizzare people to stay with via couchsurfing. Find people who need rides from one city to the next on craiglist, and they'll subsidize your gas. Use wikipedia to look up escoterica about the place you're visiting (it would be very awesome to have some kind of internet that worked in the car, so that you could know about things as you drove by them, but cellphone internet right now is slow and extremely expensive).