Rode a trike or a bike every since I could remember up to when I went away for high school. Came back home for college and started riding again my senior year because I had gotten fat. Ended up losing 90 lbs. in 9 months. In 1990 I got slapped in the face by my known congenital heart defect when I was otherwise in the best shape I had ever been in. Had that fixed that same year. In 1995 I went to the last week of the Giro and rode parts of the course most days. Four years later I would take a good amount of time (more than a year) off from the working world, during which I would rack up about 10,000 loaded touring miles along with some road and transportation miles. Went exclusively back to road cycling between 2001 and 2008. Picked up a new touring bike that year and remembered what I loved about that activity. Now I try to take one two-week tour and one one-week tour, along with several long weekend tours, every year. I actually like it more than road riding these days.
My car turned 3 last month. It's about to hit 7,900 miles.
Don't feel like a newb, and that's good.