Camping by bike is tougher than it looks. A fully loaded bike makes a mile about half again as hard to ride. You also need low gears for hills.

Another thing is once you get to the camp site, you will have all sorts of chores. You have to set up your camp. You have to go out and buy some food. You have to wash up. All of those things take time and effort. It isn't really that bad but it does take energy.

You can not go out and hammer yourself to exhaustion and then do your camp chores. On multiday rides, I have seen people come in, set up their tents, and just go to sleep right through dinner. Missing dinner is fatal to one's prospects for the next day's ride.

So it is always a good idea to get to your camping location with enough energy to do all sorts of chores.