If you want to see what a real touring bike should look like, check out the Bruce Gordon BLT.
http://www.bgcycles.com/blt.html
These come at under $2km equipped with the kind of components that experienced tourists would select.
I would query a complete 105 build kit. Whilst the quality is sufficient, the gear ratios are too high. Most tourists use an MTB chainset and many use MTB hubs, esp on the rear.

Do you have any links to the Franklin frameshop?
You get some artisan builders who charge extra for the name and others who do artistic, fancy lugs which are nice but not neccessary.