For a few years in the late 80's - early 1990's I was invited to be a "guest leader" for Vermont Bicycle Touring. I'd been on their 5-day inn-to-inn tours every year since 1980 and they needed to staff up for foliage season. I essentially got paid for my vacation - drive the sag wagon half a day, ride sweep the other half. It was great fun!

One summer my wife and I went to England for a driving tour. We started out of London after a couple of day's sightseeing. While we were in the city the food wasn't agreeing with her, but we found an out of the way Italian place on a side street in Kensington that sat well with her, so we went back for our last night in the city before heading into the countryside. We were seated at a table at the window where the menu was posted for passers-by. I noted a couple that stopped and looked, then went along. A few moments later they came back, entered the restaurant and were seated at the table next to us. I greeted them - they were customers from the tour I led the prior Autumn!