@CQ - you could drive it, it's like a really big van. A few things to worry about, but with the backup monitor, you could even park it.

Solar panels are big and expensive, about $1k for mine, and I did the work. If you want to camp where there aren't places to plug into electricity for several days, you need solar, a generator, or both. Solar is quiet. Quiet is appreciated by myself and others where I like to go. But it will take a long time to break even on the initial cost. I plan to live in the desert southwest and Mexico for several months at a time, and camp in forests and parks where there is no electric, so it's worth it for me. Plus, no hookup spots are cheap or free, but RV parks are getting a bit pricey. But if all you are going to do is camp with hookups, solar isn't worth it.

I have a manual sat dish. They make automatics. I know or can find out from the receiver's firmware the azmuth and elevation. There is a manual crank-up with a digital readout for elevation, and a big knob to rotate the dish. You set the receiver to a screen where it beeps, and beeps faster once you get signal. I can set it up in about 5 minutes.

I hope technology continues to advance, I'd like something small I could stretch out on a coax wire to get sat TV when I'm under trees. Shade, electric, and sat TV would be super. Also, the wireless internet hitting cell towers is expanding.

I spent a full two years researching RVs before I jumped. I mean serious research. Like, obsessive research.

-Chuck, Vegetarian fanboy