I'm jealous with you all for having faith and go out touring even bring family along for years. I still have trouble in making decision on "when" and most of all "why". Anyway I'm still building my bike for this purpose and collecting appropriate gears to be taken along. For scrapser thank you very much for giving me a different perspective, I really appreciate it. I may take a one~three days touring as a start maybe just during week-end or maybe one/two weeks of touring someday as I take my annual leave out of work n off course a permit from my family. I wish I could be as brave as you are folks...