Let me get this straight then...stealth camping isn't freeloading...right? I don't need campgrounds or motel rooms so why use them? Campgrounds are far away from services typically, not in the heart of town. I would much rather be near the service so I can get the errand running done in the evening or very first thing in the AM and spend most of the day on the bike. If I have to waste time going 2-5-10 miles out of town to find a campsite than it puts a crimp in the entire planning process. I don't mind riding the long distances I ride when I travel simply because of where I'm riding.

Last year on the way out to Ohio I stopped once to take any pictures. Their wasn't anything else to stop for. If I was out west, versus here in the east I have a feeling things would be different. I guess since I'm not a professional photographer and I've gotten use to seeing mountains and rivers it takes a lot to get me to stop and take any photos. I'm not a museum goer and most of the towns I go through are small towns and don't have anywhere to stop anyways. Coming home I did stopped quite a few times to take pics...admittedly. So when I'm mostly travelling to get from point A to point B irregardless of what I use for the route I use it all comes down to trying to make the necessary miles in the necessary time, even when the necessary time gets shortened by several days. Looking for campsites in a town takes much less time than looking for campsites outside of town and it puts me closer to the services so I can maximize the mileage I do each day. It also makes it so I have to carry less stuff out of town with me for the overnight hours since I won't need to worry about going more than a mile or so to find water in the AM. I have spent nights stealth camping away from towns and its much easier to find a stealth site in town. Being away from other people also puts me away from other peoples noise. I can have a good nights sleep when I don't have to listen to dogs barking, people talking/screaming, etc. A good nights sleep is what it's all about. The further you can get away from people the better the nights sleep. Hence why I target the areas I target for campsites.

My lifestyle is shaped by my choices and my decisions. I see what I don't like and I don't go for it. I watch other people make mistakes and I try my darnedest not to follow in their footsteps. If I see something I don't like...I go the opposite direction. I see their is a simpler way of living without all the stress and headaches of modern society. I just heard the story the other night about a guy, an article appeared in a paper somewhere, who was giving the challenge to give up the internet/computers/cell phones(internet connected) for 5 days, 120 hours. He was a newspaper writer, he took on the challenge. He was surprised at the end to wish he didn't have to go back to using computers again. Life without computers was so liberating for him. Try it sometime, you might be surprised at what you find you could really accomplish if you didn't spend all your life sitting in front of TV, the internet, the cell phone...aka electronics. Give up all electronics for 5 days and see how you feel at the end of it. See what you have accomplished with all your free time. You might surprise yourself. Then try giving it up for oh...6 weeks, start a new trend and see how dramatic your life really changed. You can live without the crap but your brained washed/forced into by your job/peers. Heck most jobs anymore you can't even begin to get without having a cell phone strapped to your waste all the time. I don't ever carry a cell phone with me unless I'm on a long road trip. I have freedom, which is what I choose. I choose not to be tied down like everyone else is. I choose not to be tracked everywhere I go. I choose freedom.

Yes, I know the type...I know of one person right now who can only work a certain number of hours per week or she will lose her disability benefits. WHAT??? If she can work, why is she getting disability benefits in the first place. She's not the only one I know. I know plenty like her. Unless you are basically on your death bed/bedfast, you aren't disabled. I don't care who you are. Rick Hoyt, Rick and Dick Hoyt(Ironman Triathlon fame) he isn't disabled. Their is plenty he could do even though he can't control his arms and legs. He could make a fortune on the inspirational speaking circuit. Probably more money than his dad makes. Extremely few people in this country are disabled. Welfare is purely a joke system. Hence why 30% of population right now is on gov't assistance.

More often than not people get the results in life based on the decisions they have made. You chose to do 'X' and 'Y' was the result of it. If you had chosen otherwise... Don't blame other people, take the blame yourself. You got in that car to go to that job and ended up getting a bad accident that left you paralyzed when someone else hit you. Why were you in the car in the first place? If you wasn't spending all that money you wouldn't have to make that money...would you. You would have had no reason to be in the car and you wouldn't have gotten into the accident. Who is to blame? The decisions you make will make you and they can break you as well. All you can do is hope for the best. Just don't let other people intimidate you into the wrong decisions. I don't, I can think for myself and make my own decisions even when they aren't the popular decisions. I don't have to impress anyone but myself. At times I impress myself far more so than I could ever imagine...on bike and off.