I'm gonna say like Maria. For me traveling by motorbike has opened a totally different way to relate to the territory I'm traveling to. It's the difference between visiting a place and exploring a place. When I travelled as a backpacker I felt like a tourist, but when I travel by motorbike I feel like an explorer. There is something about making my own way, moving by my own means, me versus the world.

I have great memories of backpacking, totally awesome experiences that are not in any ways less precious then my motorcycle adventure memories, but I can't imagine myself going back to the buses, trains and boats of a backpacking trip. I'm totally open to the idea that this is a highly personnal preference, but for me a motorcycle (or any travel by my own mean wether walking or pushbike) is synonym of liberty and I need that liberty, I need that fix of total independance from the system when I'm lucky enough to escape from my working camp.

That being said, the last thing I would like to do is to project the idea that traveling by motorcycle is "better" then backpacking or that somehow motorcycle travelers are "more badass" then backpackers. Wether you travel by motorbike or backpacking or going from hotel boutique to hotel boutique with your rolling suitcases for the bellboy, if your attitude is good, you're nice to people, you are ethical and you try to bring something good to the places you visit, then you are the best traveler and deserves respect and admiration. Period.

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