Several years back, I was bike-shopping. I had heard quite a bit about the Surly Long Haul Trucker, but discovered that nobody in the Dallas-Fort Worth area actually stocked one (that has changed, though). As far as that goes, I only found one bike shop in the entire area that actually stocked any kind of touring bike, period, and those were the Treks.

I notice at the biggest bike shop in the area, they have an impressive number of bikes in there, but you get to looking, and it's 20 of that model and 20 of this model, so the variety isn't as much as you might expect from looking.