International Travel Group Meeting - Sunday October 1 @ 9:30am Pacific Time

November 5 (note that daylight saving time ends this day)

that's a week after most of the rest of the world including Europe and the UK - 29 Oct 2023

I may be on the road, but yes please if I can

Sorry to be missing it. I'm on a shopping trip to Buffalo that weekend.

Sorry, I wish I could, Andrea, but I will be visiting family in Cincinnati that week. Hopefully in November.

November 5 (note that daylight saving time ends this day). that's a week after most of the rest of the world including Europe and the UK -29 Oct 2023

November 5 is the same day as WA changes- there is the same discrepancy for 1 week between WA and the UK every year- start and end. I am always confused for that week.

WA is supposed to have been staying permanently in DST since 2019 but it's still not been approved by Congress.

are you going to join the zoom meeting, isn31c?

WA is supposed to have been staying permanently in DST

is that Washington State or Western Australia?

I’ll just be getting home from a family visit in PA. Count me in. Thanks!

California voted to end daylight savings time in 2018, yet here we are, changing our clocks again on November 5th.

is that Washington State or Western Australia?

Washington State.

are you going to join the zoom meeting, isn31c?

It's hardly appropriate for me. I see these meetings as being for the relevant in-staters. I would feel an interloper. Also I've only done 1 zoom meeting, with the Commissioners of Irish Lights , and since then I've changed PC. I have not the slightest idea if my new PC even does Zoom.

At 10am PT (6pm GMT) on a Saturday I would expect to be receiving a live London Transport Museum you tube presentation.

Andrea, I am a maybe. I will be in Sarajevo that day and not sure on activity timing. But I will try!

isn31c, I am sorry you would feel like an interloper! We just talk about travel - rarely country-specific - and you certainly travel! It’s a social gathering centered on traveling. You probably don’t need any help from most of us, but you have helped a lot of people that you might see there. Mardee can’t make it this time, but last month both Mardee and Pam were there. It’s a nice group of people. Sometimes Ms. Jo and Bets are there, as expats in Europe. You would fit right in.

Please include me Andrea!

Will see if I can make it. It is always fun to catch up and see the faces of the people who post on the forum.

it is a shame that isn31c| doesn't feel welcome. There is no need, and certainly a prolific contributor who has helped so many people, some in person, would be very welcome.

Maybe give it a try, isn31c? You can always leave if you don't like it....

isn31c, I hope you will reconsider and join us. This is an International meeting and we have had people join us from many places, including people who live in England, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Italy, France, Israel, Mexico and Canada. We welcome everyone’s input and insights. Our meeting is on Sunday.

Yes please! Day before my flight...

A brief remark on DST has all got a little out of hand. I see these meetings every month or so and had just never thought anything of them. Not really read the blurb fully.

Oddly I have looked quite seriously at the in-person meetings in Idaho and Lola's in Seattle, but not the zoom meetings, where I am heavily technologically challenged anyway.

I had just assumed the zoom meetings were a hang over for CA members from Covid, and certainly hadn't thought they were attended from around the world. I don't think I had really grasped that Bets was an ex-pat either. No reason why I would.

I actually thought 1 October was Saturday (yes, I didn't look at the title). Leave it with me for a month or so, as at 10.45am PT most Sundays I am usually just virtually walking into St Mark's Episcopal Cathedral in Seattle (on either Vimeo or facebook).

I actually came back to this topic because TexasTravelMom's remark was preying on my mind

isn31c, I totally understand why you wouldn’t bother to read all the meeting posts. By the way, there isn’t really a Seattle group per se. We started meeting monthly in Sacramento 13 years ago and the only month we missed was March 2020 when everything shut down. Starting the following month the group started meeting on zoom, and by June I decided that since I was paying for zoom anyway I would see if people were interested in a monthly meeting from wherever they live. We also have people join us from their travels. We have had a wide variety of people participate and in my opinion the meetings are always interesting. It’s also nice to get to know other forum members and I have had the pleasure of meeting some of them in person. If you are available this coming Sunday or another month please feel free to join us. We meet the first Sunday of the month unless I’m traveling internationally or if it’s a holiday. In that case I schedule for a different day. The meetings start at 9:30 and people stay as long as they want. It’s never a problem when people drop off when they need to.

CWsocial, where are you off to this time? I have serious travel envy of you and TexasTravelMom, you’re both always on the go!

isn31c, I hope it was a preying in not a bad way!

Andrea, you may be double jealous….. 🙈🤣

Andrea, this is the "ballet is a bargain in Budapest" trip! I'll just be going back there, while a certain someone has been in the general vicinity all along!

Andrea, I am going to miss this meeting because I’ll be on a guided tour of the South Coast of Iceland that day and probably will not be returning to my accommodations until after you have started the Zoom. I’ll miss seeing you all but will definitely be experiencing a country new to me. Looking forward to this much anticipated trip to Iceland 🇮🇸 and onward to Portugal 🇵🇹..

Great destinations! I hope you have a wonderful time!!

Andrea, does the meeting start at 9:30 or 10am California time?
I see it written as both...

SharYn, thanks for pointing out the error in the title. I’ve corrected it. I’m not sure why I put 10:00 since we always start at 9:30. Maybe I shouldn’t multitask so much. 🤦🏼‍♀️

Andrea,
Please count me in.
Looking forward to it.
Thanks!
MC

Andrea, may I be a definite maybe this month? I have a tentative invitation for dinner Sunday that likely won't be confirmed until Sunday morning.

@isn31c, you’re welcome anytime in Idaho! The lady at our bakery meeting spot lived in Chester, England before coming to the US. She’s always interested in what our group members are planning for trips, especially to the UK.

”Oddly, I have looked quite seriously at the in-person meetings in Idaho and Lola's in Seattle, but not the zoom meetings, where I am heavily technologically challenged anyway.”

I understand isn31c point of view. Technology.

I think I can do it this month.

Here is one more reminder for the meeting at 9:30 Pacific Time tomorrow morning. I’ll send the link to everyone who has requested it and hope to see your smiling faces tomorrow. Scott may have a brief slide show with photos from his Best of the Adriatic tour to share if there’s time. It looks like a small group this month so imagine there will be.

As I suspected, my dinner invite was changed. I look forward to being with you tonight (or tomorrow morning - depending on where you all are :-)

Hi Andrea, hope I am not too late to join. I emailed you earlier this am.

another most excellent meeting in the can. Good companionship, great reports, excellent questions.

Thanks all, especially Andrea and Jim, for a very entertaining couple of hours.

Thanks to all the participants. June, I’m so sorry the zoom link didn’t work for you and I hope you can join us again in a future month.

Andrea, we’re still in Croatia and Sunday was a travel day for us - Split to korčula. I meant to let you know I wasn’t an and completely forgot since we’ve having so much fun. This trip 4 friends joined us.
I’ll be there next month for sure.

And I was sorry my WiFi was so spotty for streaming! It kicked me off at some point and, while I could access WiFi, I couldn’t access zoom.

I enjoyed what I saw anyway

I agree with Nigel. Even without any sound it was interesting.

Good morning. I know this is a week late. Sorry I missed the meeting, they are SO much fun and educational. And thanks again, Andrea and Jim for hosting them. I'm leaving next week for Italy but will be home for Nov. 5. So, see you then!!

What about Chani? We're all hoping she is okay. Has anyone heard anything? Our prayers are for her safety, and certainly for peace everywhere.

Chani has been in touch with the forum- towards the bottom of this thread- https://community.ricksteves.com/travel-forum/beyond-europe/safe-to-travel-in-israel-now

Sorry I missed it! Hope to be there next month.

I had heard that Chani was okay, and reading her post confirmed it. I hope she continues to be safe.

Well, from a technological perspective at least, I have finally proved that I can actually do Zoom on this Computer. On Friday I received a totally unexpected invitation to this morning's United Churches service at Lerwick Scottish Episcopal Church, Shetland, which actually worked, and has just finished an hour ago.
I know it has taken longer than a "month or so", but these things take time. Every other Zoom I get is simultaneously "transferred" to facebook by some process or other way beyond my understanding, so there hasn't been the chance to prove it.
There is still a timing issue, in being double booked, but that is a different matter.

At least you know that Zoom works for you and you are welcome to join us whenever you might be available. Even though we usually meet on the first Sunday of the month, in January it will be on the 14th since I will be in the Seattle area the first weekend of the month.