I have couple of good ones prefaced by: 1. In '99 I rode across the country, from Seattle to Bar Harbor, ME with a small group of people. 2. The following year I did a tour from Seattle to Cortez, CO, which included the same Seattle to Glacier N.P. route I had done in '99.

1. In '99 we took a day off in Bowling Green, OH. Some weird guy pulls in to the campground that afternoon. The guy reminds me of Spicolli from "Fast Times." I am from Philly and it turns out he's from a Philly suburb. He swears he knows me from somewhere and keeps asking me if I have done this ride or that ride. I had lost my voice for a while so it was hard to talk, but I assure him I don't know him, yet his bike seems familiar. After leaving me alone for 30 min. he turns to me and asks "Did you ever do that ride to New York?" It all came rushing back. We had been on the same ferry during one edition of a local club ride to Brooklyn and had eaten dinner together with some others after the ride.

2. While having breakfast in a café in Libby, MT in '00 a man sitting next to me recognized me from the previous year when we stopped there for breakfast and stuck up a conversation. He even remembered the teacher and the former cop that were with me in '99.

3. In '00 I entered Yellowstone N.P. at West Yellowstone and had been riding for about 15 min. when a car pulls along side me and I hear someone say "Hey, Dave." I look over, stunned, to see in the passenger seat a woman who had been on our cross country tour the year before. She said she was abled to recognize me because I was wearing the same togs she had seen me all summer of the previous year.

4. Later during the '00 trip I have having lunch under a shelter in a public park in Kremling, CO. A couple pulls in with custom purple panniers from Robert Beckman. The year before the couple had passed us going in the other direction on the road that skirts the east shore of Lake Koocanusa in MT. I had a set of Beckman panniers, which is how we remembered each other.

Got any good ones?