Please join our online Travel Group meetings!
We started when our local travel meetup group went online in 2020. Now we're a group of travelers from across the US and beyond who love to swap stories about our travels.
WHERE: online
WHEN: Saturday, January 11, 2025 @ 11am-1pm Pacific
Please RSVP on this thread to join. I will send the meeting link via private forum message a few days prior to the meeting.
TRAVEL TOPICs for Jan 11:
Italy Puglia and smaller cities in Italy with Jean
Italy Venice, Verona, Florence, Bologna with Tammy
Are you planning a trip to Italy? Come ask your questions of recent travelers, or get ideas to inspire your travel wish list!
FUTURE ONLINE MEETINGS: 2nd Saturdays, except as noted
Feb 8, 2025 11am - 1pm PT
Destination topic 1: Paris with avirosemail, hear about his Thanksgiving trip!
Destination topic 2: OPEN
Mar 8, 2025 11am - 1pm PT
Destination Topic 1: Spain, after a couple of people are back from their trips!
(April - no meeting)
May 10, 2025 11am - 1pm PT
Destination topic 1: Japan with Barbara!
Destination or discussion topic 2: choice of destinations from TexasTravelMom (TBD)
Jun 14, 2025 11am - 1pm PT
Destination topic 1: Greece/Albania/N Macedonia trip with CWsocial
Destination topic 2: OPEN
(July - no meeting)
Aug 9, 2025 11am - 1pm PT
Destination topic 1: OPEN
Destination topic 2: OPEN
yes please!!!
Ok, it is POSSIBLE I can make the first hour of the January meeting - as long as you have space for me. I know I can’t stay the whole time and I have no idea about wifi capability yet.
For May, maybe people have a preference for me? Options from this trip: New Zealand, Melbourne & Tasmania; Vietnam; or more Japan with Barbara.
Space is not an issue. Stay as long as you can!
Please sign me up, am going to be in Italy for my first time in April and would love to get some tips.
I'd like to attend. Thanks.
I’m not positive yet that I will be available, but I’d like to attend if it works out.
I’d like to join too!
I have an event that day, but I will try to join for the first 45 minutes or so.
Yay Italy!
I’d like to join.
Love Italy! Yes, please count me in.
Italy is my fave - coming up on trip #15! Count me in.
I’m making it official that I will attend, and I am presenting on Italy. : )
I’ll briefly show a couple of the more obscure cities I have stayed from the list of 40 and then focus on the Puglia region where I concentrated last May.
I hope to attend. Sent from our Zip Air plane on the way home. Free WiFi!
I would love to participate. Thank you.
Count me in!
I would love to join. My daughter and I are planning a trip to Italy in October 2025. I have not traveled internationally since I was a child. Lots of questions on my end. Would love to glean all I can. Thanks for including.
Kate
I would like to attend. I did just go to Italy, am I telling about our trip? I have finished my photobook so could show that.
Thank you, Jean and Tammy!
Jean, wow, 40 towns in Italy ... fabulous! I am looking forward to hearing about the Puglia region, which I've not been to.
Tammy, yes please, we'd love to see your photobook! And maybe you can pick a page and show us how you put them together. Not the whole process...maybe show us how you add all that lovely artwork?
I think people are going to want to ask you (and others who have recently traveled in Italy) questions about your visits, from simple logistics, to recommendations. To allow time for that, if we plan each presentation for about 20 minutes, that will give us more than an hour for discussion and questions.
Thank you both!! With the new United nonstop from Denver to Rome, I've got a keen eye on a return to Italy! It's been 6 years since I've been there and I know a lot has changed.
I've sent forum messages to those who are new to these online meetings, or perhaps haven't attended in a while. Please reply to my message that you've completed the setup, after which I will send the meeting link.
For those who have regularly attended these meetings, you've already completed the setup and I will send the meeting link nearer the meeting date.
Please include me. I'm especially interested in Jean's tales of Puglia, one of the few regions I haven't explored yet. And Tammy in some of my favorite places!!
I'd like to join as well, thanks!
CWsocial, thanks for the details of the logistics of the meeting! I thought I would start with a few minutes’ very brief look at a couple of the less traveled cities that might interest others to explore and then drop into the Puglia region for the majority of the time.
Thank you, Jean, I am looking forward to hearing about the cities you choose and the region of Puglia, which I've not been to!
Please add me - headed to Italy with Rick Steves in May. Thank you!
MaryK, welcome! Perfect timing before your trip. I've sent you the setup instructions and the meeting link.
Previous participants: I will send the meeting link this coming week.
New participants: I have sent each of you the "setup instructions." Please respond to that forum message and I will reply with the meeting link.
I’d like to attend!! Please tell me again how to do the set up!
Thanks!
Hi CW, if there's room please count me in. Thx Dave
I’d like to join, thank you
Absolutely, ahhhh Italia!!
Everyone who has expressed interest, above, should have a message from me.
Previous participants - you should have received a forum message with the meeting link.
New participants - you have received Setup Instructions to follow before joining the meeting. If you are fairly new to the forum, please reply to my message that you've completed the setup and I will send the meeting link. If you've been on the forum for a while, I sent the setup and meeting link together.
If you have not received a forum message from me, please reply here or in a message and I'll have a word with my Chief of Communications about the oversight!
And there is still room for anyone who would like to join us in Italy!!
I would like to join your meeting!
I’d love to join the meeting!
I’d love to join. (And hopefully don’t forget).
Judy B and Patty, I have sent the meeting link in a forum message.
Patrick C, welcome! I have sent setup instructions to you in a forum message. Please follow the steps in that message and reply to me.
We love Italy. We were there a couple of years ago and plan to return this May.
CWsocial, I worked on the Puglia presentation yesterday & today, and it’s almost finished. Putting it together made me SO excited to return this year! It’s been “a good assignment” - not homework! ; ). Now if I could just finish my photo albums…
Jean, that's so good to hear. I can't wait to hear about Puglia and get excited about planning a trip back to Italy! It's been too long.
CWsocial, I'd love to hear Italy travel talk! It's been awhile; please send sign-in setup instructions (it's a new year and I'm feeling optimistic, lol).
