Blue Highways: A Journey into America

The book is fairly old at the time of my reading; I wonder how much has changed? Can someone still do this type of stopping just anywhere for the night? Have a good conversation without concerns for safety?

It reminds me of something I read decades ago, On the Road by Jack Kerouac, which I didn't like at the time. Maybe I didn't appreciate the wandering, and appreciation of the moment and who we might meet or what we might learn, at any moment.