well, at this point, I'm going to head off on my own and I"m sure I'll run into other tourers as the Lake Champlain bike loop (I would think) would be a popular destination since it is very bike friendly. Even if I just have company for 4 -5 hours a day, that would be enough for me and then at campgrounds, there are always people around. I guess I'm just kind of surprised that I didn't get any responses to my ads (except from one guy who wants to read my crazyguy journal since he wants to do the Lake Champlain tour in the future) since I know how thrilled I would be to find an ad like that from someone who had already planned the route, picked the dates, lined everything up including a ride and all I had to do was sign on. I'd jump on that! I had a great time riding with a pack of people last summer on the MassBikePike for 4 days (we had a sag wagon) and the company was great, loved the people, had a wonderful time, so I just assumed that there would be people like that waiting to go (I did contact one of them who had all her own touring gear but she had already signed on w/ ACA for the Adirondack tour).