Last time we cycled and camped with our gear..was over 18 yrs. ago.

Maybe I could camp for 1-2 nights on hard ground. But now I've been cossetted for cycle touring that we do on our own, that I like a bed after a long day of cycling with my panniers...meaning 5-6 hrs. of cycling all over the place with some stops along the way. When it's several hrs. of continuous rain while we're cycling on the road, I really want ...a bed and a roof.

Certainly when we cycle toured in Europe 2 yrs. ago, neither of us even thought of camping at all.