Originally Posted by
Rowan
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.
Haha, you beat me to it. I was going to say the same thing... thanks to everyone for such great candid responses and suggestions! If anyone is interested in bike touring in western US or Canada for short trips, please feel free to PM me.