What do I do now?

61F new to dating after 25 years so I tried the apps. Same horror story as many others but I have met one man who is age appropriate, asks questions and answers them, and has been a responsive texter for about a week now. One issue is that he lives 200 miles from me, so we really can’t just go out for a drink to see if we have chemistry. Anyway, I would like to continue to chat and plan a meet up that we can work out without strings. Not sure if he’s interested like that, or just wants to chat. Should I just ask him? I don’t feel a need to rush anything nor does he, but I kinda want to know if I should ask deeper questions, learn more about him, or just text until it gets boring.

Of course I do wonder if we have all this time to build up to meeting, what I’ll do if we meet and he smells funny 🤔😆