Me too. I just renewed my membership, and in their reply email I suddenly realized that I've apparently been a member for 14 years now! Even though I am not going on tours every year (not by a long shot), I just feel like this is one of those organizations that I have absolutely no problem supporting on an ongoing basis. The Adventure Cyclist magazine is just a nice bonus (and helps inspire me on dark winter evenings), but apart from that I know I am supporting an organization that is promoting something I care about. They bring a little bit of good into the world, and that's something worth supporting. I truly don't understand the hostility that some people here seem to feel, though they are of course entitled to their opinions. I guess on the plus side, that negativity probably spurs some of us to comment, where we might not have bothered otherwise.

When I think about the $40 I just spent... that's, what, a couple of pizzas? And in return I know I am supporting an organization that is developing some really awesome bicycle routes - most recent being the Sierra Cascades, which I really want to do:

http://www.adventurecycling.org/news...30.cfm?use=web

... and then there's the upcoming Route 66:

http://www.adventurecycling.org/news...22.cfm?use=web

I'll be really interested to see what they do with Route 66 - it's a difficult one because many parts of it are now overlayed by freeway. So you either bite the bullet and ride on the highway, or have to go off route and find a way around... I can't wait to see what they come up with. When you look at their route network, it's looking pretty impressive:

http://www.adventurecycling.org/routes/network.cfm

This is an organization worth supporting, in my opinion.

Neil