Yup, but sometimes both the journey and the destination are the reward! I guess what I am really saying is that being VFR and having a basic aircraft doesn't mean that you can't make long and interesting trips, it just means that you have to be flexible.
Very very flexible, Ian
BTW I am not taking bose-x's bait here. He's just got himself into the front seat of somebody's Malibu (a cheap SE pressurised piston with a dodgy engine installation which based on the huge in-flight failure stats I would not dare cross the Alps with) and suddenly anything unpressurised is not good enough.
I have tried trips in IFR in the past, but you are then flying to arrive, not flying for fun.
I think Rod1 you were not playing the game the right way. The curious thing about flying IFR is that one flies more or less exactly as one would fly if there were no rules, no ATC, no CAS. The only thing one cannot do is go off somewhere and do a bit of sight-seeing off-route. IFR is generally a lot less hassle.