>> i have a canon hd. i created some youtube videos. i documented my trip. t was kind of scary i had a digital camera. i had a canon video camera and 10 or 12 notebooks. it makes it great. because when i got back, i could look at that video and use it to help me describe what i was going to write about. >> do you have a price -- the driving, the gasoline, staying, rating and self published? >> this is a one man project for good and bad. i figured it cost me $5,000. and that is with about $2,000 of fuzzy accounting, whatever deterioration -- depreciation of my car and incidental things are lumped together. i figured food, gas, lodging was a little less than $3,000. >> what kind of a vehicle? >> a toyota rav 40 which i leased after testing out the back and seeing that i could stretch out in the back and sleep if i needed. >> how often did you sleep and the car? >> 20 nights of 43. 10 of those were and wal-mart parking lots. i loved walmart i am not a walmart basher. i don't shop there, but i do like them. they have a policy that -- a corporate policy that w elc