I enjoy planning my trips away.... planning to do an IBA ride.... doing all the bookings for accommodation and where to eat!
Touring trips are great, limiting to 250-350 miles a day depending on where I am going....
IBA ride planning can be more involved with routes, fuel stops, hotel/B&B, weather, sunrise/sunset times can also come into effect for some rides!
Then riding.......
Recently I rode to Spain to attend the Catalunya MotoGP, then rude to Gibraltar for a few days as I hadn't been there for 41 years.... fitted in a BBG1500 on the way home, followed by a channel ferry ride and a 500 mile ride home from Dover.... total for the 13 days over 4000 miles..... just under a quarter of my miles for the year.....
Why?
Because I enjoy riding my motorcycle, the challenge of an IBA ride.... the people I meet and talk to.... the modern term for the feeling I believe is "decompressing"....