Here's some pertinent help for your camping question. How To Camp Anywhere -- A Tongue-in-cheek Answer to a Bicycle Camping Problem


Over the years I have met Japanese, Argentinian, German, British, and French bike tourers.(I lived in a town on a popular coast to coast route)

Some had no English at all, some were on very small budgets, some were not. All were making it OK. And this was before the internet!