I kinda agree with you....I’d have to leave the US for a while.
But one odd factor here...both of these people were emotionally charged-up, potential mental cases, and I might suggest they were on some type of medication.
This ‘I-want-to-RV-America-to-be-free’ syndrome is reaching some stage where I think there’s ten-thousand of people (under the age of 25) on this kind of ‘trip’.
It’s the 21st century version of “hitchhiking” across the US or Europe back in my day. :)
Very few of my fellow millennials are "free spirits" or even wannabes. It's more of a boomer thing. The aging survivors of their era and all its excesses, are some of the most cautious people you'll ever meet -- they know it's a brutal world.
In any case, a young woman going about the country in an imagined bubble of invulnerability, can easily become more free and more spirit than she bargained for.