I got into bike touring after I retired in 2000 at 48. My fitness level was good before I started biking, but got much better after I began taking bike touring seriously. In 2004, I moved up to San Francisco, bought a quality S&S copled touring bike and hit the road, taking, at least, one 1000 mile bike tour a year.

I also became a volunteer docent at Alcatraz Island, where I went weekly for quite a while and now go every two weeks. It is like volunteering at Disneyland and gives me great stories to tell to people hosting me on the road!

Since I really like computer programming, I decided to spend my time creating a bike touring site. I've been developing it ever since. When no one added any content, I decided to add it myself and now spend time most every day checking around the Internet for links to add. It is a kind of volunteer job.

I don't really need to work, as long as I keep my expenses down, and have always worked for myself so the idea of working at a part-time job holds no attraction. I doubt I could hold down a job, anyway, as I couldn't do so when I was younger.

When I worked, I ran my own business so I am accustomed to working/being at home and have a pretty low threshold for entertainment, so while boredom happens occasionally, it doesn't happen all that often.

As for running your own touring company, I have thought about it but it seems too much like business and very little bike touring. Also, leading biking tours doesn't seem like something I'd want to do as it it likely as much about managing customer psycholoygy as it is touring logistics.