Yes, you are, but then again, life is a compromise.

I could go to the extremes. No camera, lighten up the bike, ride hard from day light to dark, pound out the miles OR bring the camera store with me, only want to make 5 miles today. There is only so much time in a day. I can only be bicycling or taking shots, I can not be pounding out the distance and spend an hour or two videoing a waterfall or stop every 15 minutes to photo the trail or ...

This being said, I think for my happiness, I need to be some place in the middle. A trivial 30 miles a day with camping gear and camera+tripod was good. OR 60+ with camera+tripod and hotel.

Or maybe I should put it a different way. On the GAP, I met some people. We would end up in the same hotel the next night. I left earlier in the morning and I arrived later in the evening. I leap frogged them several times in the day. Every time I stopped to take photos, they passed me. Then I would race past them as I rode faster (and they took a real lunch). But at the end of the day, they still made it to the hotel before I did. The compromise I made was stopping to take photos on this trip. The compromise they were making is stopping for lunch and not being able to ride farther or faster.

Life is a compromise.

And life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you will get.