Quote Originally Posted by annie

On a lighter note, I think what I see most, discarded, or lost, along the road are bungie cords!! Most of them are broken, but I've found some good ones and brought them home and used them. annie
HAH! my husband and I have sometimes wondered if you could start a second hand bungie business with all of the bungies along the road.

My most memorable finds $10, a Spanish (I think) Pro Team water bottle from a race that passed right on the route my husband and I were touring on - we had no idea that a race would be going through there! and some poor guys wallet. I found it and contacted him before he even knew it had been stolen. Some schmo had picked his pocket at a local drug store, took all of the cash and tossed the wallet out of their car right into the bike lane. He'd just moved here too so there were no local numbers or addresses in there. I ended up finding a phone# in the wallet that turned out to be his daughters boyfriend who contacted him. They were still at the drugstore, so I went down and gave it back. They were a really sweet old couple - it was very shoddy to steal from them right before Christmas.