I guess this may qualify. A few years back I was trying to plan a trip to Cape Cod and Halifax. I came to TTOL looking for tips and ended up spending a week with a TTOL member I did not know on Cape Cod. We still keep in touch, and without TTOL this would have never happened.

Also interesting in the first post 1988 was mentioned as their first trip. Ours was 1987.

About a year ago I was at a restaurant in Pennsylvania and the guy at the next table was wearing a SXM t-shirt. I asked him about SXM, and he was also a poster on TTOL. That really was a small world thing.