So now I know why a bunch of my posts were pretty much ignored. Seriously, as a newbie tourer I am only productive in the sense that I stop periodically to water some bushes and trees along the road, and when I eat at a cafe or diner, I tip 20%. I call that "supporting local economies", and I believe it is productive in that it adds a marginal lift in that business which otherwise would not have occurred. Aside from those examples, I question the need to be a "productive member of society" in the first place. Anyone who has a problem with that....has had a much different interface with much of "society" than I have.