If you are unwilling to put down several hundred dollars for a 100 channel scanner there are other lighter options.
Using an android device along with a DVB-T dongle attached to an attenna and you have a complete scanner.
http://www.dxzone.com/cgi-bin/dir/jump2.cgi?ID=28551
Hail Eris fellow travelers.
I'm a Vermonter about to hit the road for the first time in along while. Heading to NYC then onward to CO and from there who knows. Lifting off from Burlington VT I hope to meet fellow STP folk along the way.
If any of you get the chance you should read Everett Ruess...