I guess I am more of an A to B rider. I do bike tours because I want to ride and explore new areas on the bike.
Most of my off bike exploring is in the form of an hour here and an hour or two there. This is usually a short hike to a waterfall, hot spring, or whatever.
That said I do on rare occasion stop for a few days or a week and spend some time, but it is the exception rather than the rule. The hour here and there stops are likely to be short hikes or tourist attractions and the longer exceptions are likely to be a week hiking and other stuff somewhere unique that I may not get back to any time soon like Yosemite Valley on my last tour.
I have done the longer (multiple day) stop thing only once in 6,000 miles of touring so far, but am sure I will do it again. On one other occasion I took a full day to go whitewater rafting. Oh, and once I was sick for a day.
So yeah A to B with an exception here or there.