My top 10 thoughts on this bike vs. car thread are:

10. Why stop at comparing bike vs. car, how about car vs. caravans or RV (recreational vehicles in the US)?

9. Driving a car is metal and glass around the flesh -- protection but isolation from the outside world. Riding a motorbike is flesh around the metal -- dangerous exposure but openness to our world.

8. Both demand concentration on the road, but motorbiking requires more because it's more dangerous. Danger pushes us to be more PRESENT along the journey, soaking up everything around us on every mile along the journey, not just at destination.

7. The bigger the vehicle or storage space, the more useless stuff we could find to put into the vehicle.

6. I have always seen drivers envious of bikers, never the other way around. Even when bikers get soaked in the rain, they are 'cooler' than the drivers fumbling their umbrellas.

5. Bikes deal much better with parking and traffic, and get to places where 4x4 overlander would hesitate if not impossible.

4. If broken down, it's easier to find someone to transport a bike than a 4x4 overlander.

3. Gas prices!

2. Adventure is about leaving our comfort zone, and treasuring every little thing the trip brings to us, not what we bring to the trip.

1. It's about whom we travel with, and what type of transportation the group as a whole would be happy with. "Happiness is only real when it's shared." Christopher McCandless from the true story Into the Wild