Dating advice

Hello everyone ! I posted quite a bit a few months back and realized I haven’t been on this forum for awhile . I could use some advice . Background : I’m early to mid 30s and single .

I met a guy on bumble who lives in a city 2 hours away.
He drove to my city one weekend and we walked around and went to an outdoor patio for dinner . He drove back home that same evening . Good date.
Kept in touch over next few days by text. He asked me if I’d go for dinner to his city (to a restaurant) 2 weekends later and I said sure ….
Then texting slowed down to the point where he doesn’t text for days at a time. It kind of bothers me and one time when he did text again I even commented that he disappeared (as in he left a conversation after I texted a ton, only to text something unrelated 2 days later). He just made a comment that he is busy or something to that effect.

ANYWAYS…. I have a lot of dating experience and usually something like this would not bother me. What irks me is that I have to drive 2 hours each way (4 hours total in one day) for this next date and he seemingly isn’t making much of an effort .. though at the same time I realize not everyone is a texter .
It just feels icky to me, like I’m chasing a guy.
Should I get over it and just go? Or cancel or kindly ask that he comes to see me again?
Honestly my ideal would be for him to come here a few times and once something is more established I’d be happy to make it more equal in terms of visiting each other . Hard to say this now given that I barely know the guy.

Thanks in advance