Miles for the sake of miles isn't my idea of fun, either.

I wasn't intending to knock an early stop - guess I just needed to talk. I do sometimes stop early, if I'm with a group that wants to stop. Of course, a group offers the additional benefit of conversation, games, etc., that I don't have when walking alone or with one like-minded friend. Both are enjoyable, in different ways.

In the end, that's what it's all about: building, as Colin Fletcher put it, your own personal warm, round pumpkin that's waiting on the shelf for you to take it down. And perfect campsites are certainly a valid part of that pumpkin.