If you mean that they were occasionally guests in other people's houses and ate their food without paying for it, and occasionally stayed under someone's roof without paying for it, I guess technically that's true. But they're not remittance men. And mostly they camped. Those are their real expenditures, including bike stuff. I mentioned that to get people thinking, "well, how did they do that?" and to emphasize that tourers don't need specific products to ride their bikes, or even specific bikes.