Thank you very much for your response. I appreciate it. I was thinking of going to a bike shop but there is only one bike shop around here and I saw that they don't carry certain brands like Schwalbe and Surly. My other issue is that I am tired of people trying to rip me off -- shops tend to put pressure on you to buy something. Even if I came in to ask about measurements and things like that, I feel bad knowing that I may not even buy a bike from them in the end.
In terms of completes, I saw someone post a complete touring bicycle that's pretty good but it does not use the Surly LHT frame:
http://www.raleighusa.com/bikes/steel-road/sojourn-11/