I like motorbike touring as much as anyone, but backpacking has taken me to a lot of remote places--on foot, by boat or oxcart, in buses and trucks and hitching rides on bush planes among other modes of transport. If you're offended to find yourself packed into buses with a lot of 19-year-olds whose every fourth word is "awesome" or "dude," you need to re-think where you're headed and what you're doing there. And hitting the SE Asia tourist trail in order to complain that it's crowded with tourists is just silly.
Same as travel with a bike. You're the boss, no matter how you travel. If you don't like where you're at, go someplace else.
As always, IMHO.
Mark
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