Yes, and some people are smart and know how to get the calories they need and save money doing it. A hamburger and fries is a hamburger and fries no matter where you get it. You can pay more, I'll pay less. We still get calories and still get pretty much the same calories no matter how you cut it.

Yes, I simplify things. I don't spend money out the butt and due to that I don't have to spend all my time slaving away to help Obama-people get a free life here in this once great country. Instead, since I know how to spend far less money than you and have a far better lifestyle I can do the things I enjoy doing and do them far more often than you can. You have to slave away to buy your $7 hamburger and fries, while I spend $3-4 for the same meal. When you learn how to spend less money then you'll be able to spend more time on your bike and go more places. I could easily do the full campout option, including cooking at the campsite. The only trouble is I would spend far less than what I spend right now. I could probably easily do a long tour for $6-8/day without trying. Heck, if I instead actually did a tour and not a trip, aka 50-60 miles a day instead of 100-200 miles per day I could cut the $6-8 figure down to probably $3-4 per day. It wouldn't be hard...less calories burnt equals less calories needed to be consumed means less money spend on food and when that is pretty much the only money I spend...you do the math.

See when you don't spend the money, you don't have to make the money...a little secret corporate America doesn't want you to know.

When you don't have to make the money, you have tons of free time. The secret to handling the free time is to learn to look at things differently and then you will be able to find ways to do tons of things for free or essentially for free and still keep your free time...free, not occupied with slaving your life away. Remember their is no more master/slave...instead their is employee/employer. Nothing but the name changed. The employer is still in control of the slave just like the master was in control of the employee. OOPS, I guess I got them switched around didn't I

When you simplify life you have freedom, because you can be in control of your life, not someone else that you are trying to keep up with...like the Joneses. when you give up that right you lose control and give it to the Joneses and they have control of your life because you are always trying to keep up with THEM, notice I didn't say him/her...I said THEM. It is trying to keep up with Jones, I said Joneses.