The freedom to be able to just go anywhere is alluring to me. That's what I love. The ruggedness and utility of being able to land at some tiny field really close to your destination. For some it's acrobatics, speed, challenge or some other thing, but for me it's the utility and travel. Going new places. And the view. I never get tired of viewing the earth passing by below and I think that's why I like high wings so much.
The reality is of course that you seldom can go anywhere without it being a huge rigmarole and ruin you financially. And those are also the things I detest in aviation - the over-regulation, the conservatism, the it's-been-done-this-way-forever-so-why-change, the prices, the illogicalities. My dream as a kid of a future where everyone had their own plane, seems further away than it ever did. It saddens me that we're over-regualting and killing this industry all by ourselves and not realising it.