(In Person) East Bay (SF area) Travel Group Meeting - Tuesday, August 9, 2022

(Raises hand!)
It will be wonderful to see people in person!

We plan to be there.

Great, glad you can all make it!

Carol, I'll look forward to chatting with you and Tony to get more ideas for my rescheduled Portugal trip.

No need to ask, we're always ready to talk 😉

Oh good, because I'm in the mood to hear everything.

I just rebooked my canceled return flight, so now I can get back to the fun of researching activities and restaurants!

I don't remember if you're going on a tour or independent trip to Portugal. Do you know which towns you're visiting?

This is an independent trip, expanded from 2 cities for 14N in July, Lisbon and Porto, to add Coimbra in the October version for 18 total nights:

8N Lisbon with day trip to Sintra (Lisbon Riders)
4N Coimbra
6N Porto with day trip to Braga and/or Amarante

And I'm on the waitlist for one RS tour within my dates, which I'm less inclined to consider as I make more of my own plans.

Sounds like a great trip! Looking forward to discussing it.

Not sure whether I will be able to join you, but I am preparing for a My Way tour of France in September. Hooray!! I am so stoked to return to Europe. I understand that 97% of RS tourists are not catching Covid, and I hope not to be among the 3%. Good travels to all!

Happy planning, safe travels and we'll look forward to hearing about your My Way Tour!

Table for 4 at present. Anyone else joining for our outdoor meeting?

What happened to Mln and Avi? We two are still on. We're thinking of take out from the Greek restaurant. Have you eaten there?

This will be so fun!
As it happens, I'm not working tomorrow after all and I will try to arrive by 12:30.

That's great news, SharYn! I'll be there at least by 1230 myself.

Carol, I've not tried the Greek place. Only ever the crepe place and I've always been too stuck on it to try anywhere else. The big decision will be whether to get a sweet crepe or a savory one. Or both 😁

🤞🤞 for mln and avi - and anyone else who would like to join!

I just checked with Avi and anticipate arriving ~ 12:30 - 12:45 depending on BART.

Yes, mln and I seem to be well synchronized, so long as BART plays along nicely!
Depending on how hot it is I may want to work in some walking around.

Terrific! Anne S will be joining as well. So one of the picnic tables should do nicely. I'll be bringing a sunhat, as I don't recall whether those have umbrellas. It's possible we'll have enough muscle to pull 2 of the (quite heavy) tables and umbrellas together.

I should be there around 12:30 as well.

We shall miss you out-of-towners, but look forward to seeing you back online in September!

I just checked the weather, so I will be wearing shorts and sandals. Fair warning.

I will be wearing long pants, probably long sleeves, a hat, sunglasses and I might still find somewhere to add a touch of sunscreen! 😎😎

Have fun today! Wish I were there (some day….), but at least I am home after a really long day yesterday!

If you are talking luggage, pass along my new love for my Apple AirTag. I checked my suitcase and followed it with each of my 4 flights - it never made it on the final flight late last night but I could see that and so didn’t stress. I could see it sitting in Terminal C where I landed. Right now I can see it has made its way to Terminal E for a morning flight home. :)

Enjoy your F2F today guys,

I will be wearing shorts (already am), short sleeves, no hat (indoors hiding from a Health Warning ridiculous heatwave - good thing I bought 2 air conditioners, one for the living room and one for the bedroom (1st run for bedroom one last night)), no sunglasses indoors but my regular glasses change automatically and I had to slather on tons of sunscreen yesterday while waiting in car in the sun for wife coming out of a med appt.

Just thought I'd provide local colour (red and pink). 🌞🌡

TexasTravelMom, very cool about the Apple AirTag. Nice benefit that you don't have to wait around until the dreary end of the luggage parade wondering if yours made it. I will get mine the minute they have something for Android.

Welcome home!

Nigel, I wondered whether there might be a run on AC units in the UK. Glad you managed to snag a couple. We shall toast you in the cool of your living room, beachy outfit and all!

My area has had the most delightful ocean breezes, making my back yard quite "fresh" in the mornings and evenings. It's terrific, and unexpected after the last few years. Still it will be high 80s midday and that's hard on those who live nearer the water than I do.

I’m looking forward to seeing everyone. Stay cool, Nigel.

Avi - I'll wear my sunglasses!

My area has had the most delightful ocean breezes, making my back yard quite "fresh" in the mornings and evenings. It's terrific

yeah, no jealousy here

To add to the great in-person company today, we were right next to Concord's version of the dancing waters, and I got to scratch my itch for an organic milkshake. Double bonus!