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Plan something hard, be ambitious, go to bed tired........no layover days! Just go baby!You won't have time to get lonely.......I love solo, no one to have to make happy, no constant meaningless background chatter

I guess that mentality all depends on what your trying to achieve. :-/
IF your trying to challenge yourself and just want to cover as much ground as you can, then that's the way to go. Fast and Light.

But if your trying to learn to stop and smell the roses and to flow with Nature, rather than compete against it, I highly recommend you plan in a few layover days to re-charge/reflect and get out of that "workplace" mentality we operate under most of the rest of the year.

No-one is keeping score, you shouldn't either. Go hard when you feel like it, sit and lounge/read/write, look at the clouds and feel what it's like to be a kid again.

You can always find ways to fill in planned layover days if you can't learn to relax in the moment, but having a hard charging agenda with no margin for error isn't my idea of a vacation, it's just another day at work with a different view. :(

You read enough trip reports about areas you've been thru but not really "seen" and you soon realize that you've missed the very thing's your trying to find. ;)