The advantage of a van is that intra-continent travel becomes trivial. There's no need to plan anything or prepare baggage or get used to sleeping in different

The advantage of a van is that intra-continent travel becomes trivial. There's no need to plan anything or prepare baggage or get used to sleeping in different places or pay anyone or deal with any businesses or setup camping gear: you just input the destination in the satellite navigator, drive there and can go to sleep as usual at any time (and potentially you can even find on BlaBlaCar/similar someone willing to drive the van for you in exchange for a free ride).