International Travel Meeting - Sunday, May 2nd @ 9:30 Pacific Time

Hi, Andrea, I would like to join you again. Please send me the invite link. Thanks

Looking forward to this!
Thanks Andrea.

Please add me in.
Kate

I have it on my calendar and am looking forward to it!

Yes! Please add me too. How do you want to be notified if one can’t attend? Via this thread or by email?

Ohhhh topics near and dear to my heart. Please include us, but like Diane, if we can’t make it how do you prefer to be notified. We are scheduled to take a walk with some out of town friends that day but our time hasn’t been set...

I’d like to join, thank you Andrea!

i am rsvp-ing as a yes, myself without any plus-one. :-)

As part of the discussion topic I hope people will also do show'n'tell of how they find schedules and buy tickets,
like the perennial tug in Paris between individual ride tickets (a carnet thereof) vs all-day tickets vs multi-day tickets

also, are any of you using the built-in transit payment features of your smartphones? (like iPhones have a setting specifically allowing skipping the approval step...)

Hello there Andrea,

This is my first attempt at this please add me to the zoom meeting on May 2nd, I live in CA.

Thanks,
Sudha Russell, MD

me too if you please (subj to 86)

Please send me the link. My grandson’s bday party is that day but I don’t have the time yet. Just immediate family at my daughter’s home. If I can’t make it I will let you know do you can include someone else. Thanks, Barbara

I have emailed the link to everyone who I have an email address for. Please let me know if you didn’t receive it.

If you aren’t able to participate you can either email me or post on this thread. I get email notifications when someone responds. Thanks.

Please add me to the Zoom meeting. Thanks.

Hi Andrea. I would like to join this time if there is still room.

I’d like to attend please. Thanks, Andrea.

Hi Andrea, I’d like to join and will send you my email. Thanks, it sounds like fun!

Me, too! Depending on our travel schedule, it may be from the back seat of a car in the Sierras (in which case I will be mostly listening.)

Hello Andrea and Jim! Please count me in!

I won’t be able to attend now since we’ve switched back to in-person church services. But I have really enjoyed attending your meetings, Andrea! Thank you so much for the past invites!

To contribute a comment to your transportation topic, I plan our trip locations to be no more than 2 1/2 hours apart by train, so it’s very easy for us to travel by train, and we’re able to add some fantastic, less crowded places, too. There is an occasional exception- Wengen-to-Stresa was longer on the Switzerland/Italy trip. Each itinerary covers one country or sometimes two adjacent ones, so mid-trip flights aren’t needed.

I purchase our train tickets a few months ahead on the train sites, i.e. Trenitalia as soon as they’re loaded on the site and save a lot of money! We always switch locations right after an early breakfast - easy to select the right ticket. Oh and I always pick the fastest train times.

Cruising - we’ve never had an interest, but I have friends who love it. A cousin recovering from cancer was able to take a river cruise which was perfect for her energy level.

Jean, I’m sorry to hear you won’t be able to join. Thanks for sharing your transportation advice.

Include me too. Thanks,

I would love to attend... either this week or the May 30th meeting....

I could be a silent observer if that would help....

Hi Andrea,

I'd like to attend as well.

Howarddy, welcome to the forum. Please PM me with your email address. Thank you.

Sudharussell and howarddy, please send me your email address if you would like to attend.

Thanks to everyone who participated in today’s meeting. As usual it was fun and informative. A special thanks to Ron, who gave us all some really good information.

This was another fun and informative meeting. Thanks to Andrea and Jim for hosting these virtual international meetings! Thanks to all for the interesting (and occasionally hair raising :-> ) car rental and other travel transportation stories and helpful tips (including travel insurance-related ones).

I second my thanks! As always, I picked up some very useful tips (like car rental for my daughter visiting the States this summer with both a U.S. and UAE license). And I am happy to NOT be in the running for the best car rental story! 🤣🤣

Yes -- another great meeting with the stories and the tips and the memories,
and thanks again to Andrea for getting us together.

I had a wonderful time - thanks so very much to Andrea for putting together such a great space.

Gotta say - been driving since 1968 and Chani's story of the gymnastic car rental absolutely takes the biscuit - hands down. She is the WINNER

Yes, a great meeting and never forget to use the parking break! Quite the story.

Andrea, you are a terrific moderator! Thank you for doing this. I had a great time with you all.

Thank you Chani, I enjoy the meetings as much as anyone else do.