Lou and Everyone,
You may be talking of the Warm Showers List, Hospitality for Touring
Bikers: http://www.warmshowers.org/
We had a couple from Boston in October riding from Pittsburg down the Allegheny passage, C&O Canal trail and overland from DC to our house and later to Philadelphia via York, PA. Our home is right on a rail trail North of Baltimore, and we like to hear the tourist's stories. We've had another couple from the DC area who met on RAGBRAI, then married on RAGBRAI, then toured across the country timing it for RAGBRAI. They timed their visit to our home with a weekend long party (Labor Day weekend) at a Farm along the Gunpowder River, just 7 miles down the rail trail from our house, and invited us to join them. We had a young German kid who flew into Miami, did the Southern Tier across the country, went North then did the Northern Tier stopping at our house along the way. There's another list that can easily be accessed on the CR's Archive, the Touring list or Touring@Phred.com, originally touring@cycling.org and originally called the taco list. Unfortunately they were all bent riders, grrrr!!! We also hosted Willy Weir and Joe Kurmaskie, the Metal Cowboy one night when they were reading from their touring books at a local book store (both ride steel). I think this Warm Showers list is a hoot! And one day Barb and I plan to take others up on it.
It's after midnight, and now Christmas, and my wife should be falling asleep so I can safely pull out the sneeky stuff for later. Merry Christmas everyone!
Dan Artley in Parkton, Maryland where I finally had a day off with sunshine and managed a too short 22 miles on my Sachs Tourer.
Archive-URL:
http://search.bikelist.org/
... Seems to me someone on the list (or maybe it was another list) once tried to assemble the addresses of listmembers who were willing to share their home so that if someone wanted to tour, they could have a place to stay enroute. If I were 40 years younger, this might appeal to me. Lou Deeter, wintering in Scottsdale AZ for a few days