OOPS! I guess I didn't answer all of your questions. These tours have been using this same route for 15 years, and the new shop is less than a year old. So, it definitely is not something that the shop had anything to do with. Like many tours, people ride from all over the country and do quite often ship their bikes to a shop. Whether they forgot to ask or didn't ask is rather odd to me. They actually have a shower trailer that they haul for these tours, one tour is in June the other in August. A couple of years ago, I offered to let them store it at the shop so they could save money from storage fees or the gas to haul it back home and then back to Maine again in August... so they definitely know I'm here. Perhaps it was something they simply didn't think about though...