I am going OTR for a while, what are the essentials and what are the luxuries?

Learn to shop at grocery stores or Walmart.

Eat apples, oranges, and pears. They keep without refrigerator.

Get yourself a good cooler / ice chest. It'll keep half gallon of milk.

Buy water at the store.

Truck stops are insanely over priced on everything. And truck stop food get you well on your way to long term diseases.

 

Flip flops and a tank top and shorts to wear in WA in January , warm up there ya know.

 

For not much per month you can get top tier Spotify, and you pretty much have access to almost every song and can build Playlists or just randomly stream. It's far superior to xm. I also pay a little over $20 a month for 2 audible credits.

Between all that and podcasts, that's all the entertainment I could ask for when driving. I use bone conductor headphones so I can still hear everything else.