It's really not bad. Adventure Cycling Association has some great maps: https://www.adventurecycling.org/routes-and-maps/adventure-c...

It is just as easy in North America, and the ACA trans-country routes can feel crowded in season. You do meet a lot of retirees or foreigners on them, though, which underscores that the difficulty of bicycle touring for Americans is not something about their country or roads, but the miserably short vacation time that American workers get.

It is! I spent a week traveling the Pacific Coast Highway in 2018. I brought camping gear, but never used it because I found a warmshowers.org host (sometimes multiple) at every stop.

Here's a site all about bike-packing. https://bikepacking.com

Bike-packing is the lighter-weight, mixed-terrain version of traditional on-road bicycle touring.

It's quite accessible. Just need a bike, a map, and a backpack with camping kit. Of course, some of us get crazy with counting grams and trying to mix in gnarly terrain.

I do a few trips each year, usually 3-day weekends within a few hours drive of home. Some are mellow on groomed gravel with my wife. Some are more extreme with friends on mountain bikes.

I cycled from NY to SF 2015, with a detour to Chicago. I've done lots of bike touring in other parts of the world, but would say US is one of my top countries for bike touring!

It's not quite as well-supported in NA but there's still a lot of us hosting on https://warmshowers.org