Thanks to all 3 of you. Good info. Yes I started out on the HUBB and ADVrider. I'm an inmate on both. I got on this forum and RideAsia to find info from people in the area. I've traveled in many countries without knowing the first word of their languages. I've always gotten by. I do have a translator on my tablet.

I can afford good hotels. But I have slept many times on picnic tables. In Dusseldorf,Germany I gave up looking for rooms and slept on the pavement of a rest area. I may buy a tent when I get there. Sleeping on a picnic table in a heavy rain isn't as much fun as it used to be.

I have filled my tank with gas from buckets and milk jugs in Mexico and South America.

While I'm in China I will see touristy things. I'm not coming to Asia just to ride there.There are so many things I want to see. I just won't have enough time this trip. I wasn't planning to ride in big cities. I thought I would stay outside the city and get a ride to whatever attraction I wanted to see.