I found that you are most free when you are traveling in foreign countries because nobody bothers you with laws and regulations if you are not doing anything extraordinarily stupid. In India, I saw a French kid get his legs broken by a policeman wielding a lathi (which is an inch round, four feet long piece of bamboo)because he got caught with charis and did not want to pay the bribe. He ran out of the hotel, leaving, all his identification and papers in his room. The cop held them up in front of his face before giving him a might wack across the shins, breaking his legs. In India, at the time, they took their bribes seriously.