This is among, if not, the best thread I have ever read on Bike Forums. Thanks for starting it, Fuji Owner, and thanks to everyone who has contributed so far talking of their lives and cycle-touring. Wonderful.
And the irony of that thread originator's name is that my first real touring bike was a Fuji Touring which I still have, and it replaced another cheap bike that I rode from Perth in Western Australia to Adelaide in South Australia on my first ever real tour over 20 years ago and which was stolen when I finally reached home Tasmania. The Fuji has done more than 60,000km of touring, commuting and randonneuring.