On day seven of the 39-day bike tour I just finished, I found a pair of sunglasses on the shoulder of a busy California highway. I picked them up and put them in an extra sunglass case in a pannier, and forgot about them until I got home yesterday.

They are somehow completely undamaged, and apparently are pretty expensive. The brand is Tom Ford, and it says on them that they are made in Italy. They don't feel cheap.

I looked them up on the internet, and the price ranges from $200+ to $500!

Of course, maybe the pair I found are counterfeit, and not the real Tom Ford sunglasses.

Has anyone else found expensive items on the road while bike touring?

Not a tour but this is hard to beat. One morning leaving home I found $120 in cash in the street. 

A few years later I found a $100 bill on the road a mile from home. It turned out to be movie money, fake money used in films. It looked remarkably legit but was a wee bit smaller than real money and the words "Movie Money" or words to that effect were printed on the bill.

The feeling that I am truly alive.

A LedLenser torch (flashlight) still in its padded pouch. Found on the Monaro Highway. I’m not sure of its cost new, but about $80-$100. 

In 2020, during COVID, we rode border to border. Jacinto found THREE smart phones over the duration of the trip.  I'm not sure if people were expressing their frustrations by chucking their phone out the car window?

We haven't found even one phone on subsequent tours.

On a hot afternoon 6 days ago I stopped to rest in the shade at Creekside park, across the street from Bozeman (Montana) City Hall. Sitting on a park bench was a note saying "FREE! Enjoy". Next to the note was a bag containing a gram of cannabis, a small glass pipe, and a Bic lighter.

I almost forgot that this summer just south of Lexington VA on the TransAm I came across a broken trash bag strewn along the side of the road. Among the debris were five syringes.

!!!  We need a like button in the forum.

That’s a different type of high point on a cycle tour. 

I've found lots of tools on my travels; here's an example --> Tools Found.  But the most valuable thing I have ever found is the Meaning of Life, or so it seemed to me at the time.