Don't feel to bad, Im a self employed artist and as such can seldom get time to tour. Think about it, when I go, the sales dept, accounting, PR dept, materials procurement, secretary, and the poor guy who has to actually make things are all gone. So I take what I can get. Plus, all my friends with jobs and familys who would like to go generaly can't reorganize everything on the wim to ride thier bike around a bit, whatever "someone" says.