I remember that place from a short tour I did in 2010. I'd camped up the mountain at a primitive site the  night before, and had breakfast at the café the next morning.

At the time I was slightly annoyed that I'd camped instead of trying to get a room there - I seem to recall that I had no idea before stopping for breakfast that the place was also a motel since it had no internet presence at all. Sounds like maybe I was better off camping?

George, I'll be 62 next month so you've got a few years on me.  I've been a CPAP user for over a decade.  I bought a travel unit a couple years ago.  In anticipation of my long tour last summer I got two CPAP-specific batteries; testing them at home suggested I could possibly squeeze out three consecutive nights without having to recharge.

I also carried an extension cord, so that I could take advantage of power opportunities when campsites offered that amenity, without burning my battery reserve.

As matters turned out I never went more than one night at a time with no juice at hand, so I was carrying one more battery than I'd have needed.  The things weigh 3.5 pounds each so, between the two batteries and the extension cord, nearly 20 percent of my total load weight had to do with the needs of the  CPAP.

Would I change anything?  I don't really know.  I'm unlikely to be touring again in the remote areas of the West, so I might leave one battery at home.  I might leave the extension cord at home as well, trusting that I could find some electricity source to recharge a partially-depleted battery.

To Kelly's question: I did a four day, three night loop into Pennsylvania a month ago.  I'll be doing more of that type of short tour in the future; perhaps I'm done with sustained self-contained tours that involve camping, if only because hotels so greatly simplify the packing and reduce the load I must carry.

Age 68 was my last multi day bike tour where I camped most nights, Olympic Peninsula down the coast to the OR/CA state line then east to the Cascades. I hope it's not my last but it has been 8 years. My partner, MJ, is falling in love with bike touring but without the tent. Certainly more comfortable but limiting in routes and much more expensive.

I built a teardrop trailer, which counts for not sleeping on the ground and results in what I term "hub & spoke" touring.

I'm 76. My last cycle-camping tour was along the former DDR-West German border, this year.

I doubt it will be the final camping tour.

I'm still camping, because I like to go places where there are no hotels or cabins.  Mostly that involves kayaking on the west coast or backpacking, rather than cycling. But the past couple of years I've done short summer biking trips with camping, and I've loved it.  

For European trips, I prefer to carry less gear and stay in hotels or apartments. That's both because I travel most in the fall, when the European campgrounds are closed and the evenings are long  but also because I want to be where the action is, and eating European food.  I'm not interested in wild camping where it's not permitted.