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(Virtual) Sacramento Travel Group Meeting-Saturday 4/18 @ 10a.m.

Hello all, these are challenging times and we must be vigilant about physically distancing ourselves from others to stop the spread of Covid-19. But why should we miss another meeting? I don't think we should. Some of us have had to cancel trips, but we can share in our disappointment, talk about future trips, and get some trip reports from recent travelers.

We will have a virtual meeting on our normal 3rd Saturday at 10:00 a.m. It won't be the same, but the commute will be great. And for once you can bring your own food and drinks. Please wear something appropriate on top. Pants are optional. ;-)

For this first meeting we will limit the attendees to people we know. If we end up doing this again next month we may feel more comfortable opening it up to others. We have to see how this one plays out first.

Matt has generously offered to host the meeting on Zoom. The meeting will be from 10:00 - 12:30. Matt will reply to this post with any further information he needs from you. You can then PM him with what he needs to set this up. Please also reply to this post to let me know who to expect. I'm looking forward to seeing everyone!

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I’m in.

Remember that many years ago when I popped in using a very strange camera? Now instead of passing the camera around we can all see each other as long as we all talk one of the time

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Thanks, Andrea, for organizing this month's get together. Great that we can all touch base and keep connected thru current events, hope everyone's doing well. Will be setting up session and sending out invites (which include URL-link and Password to access meeting) later today. So far, I have email addresses for the following: Ed & Lauri, Jim & Andrea, Larry, David (not the Larry David!), Eileen, Kevin, Mona & Dave, Susan & Monte, Kitty, Sharon, Betty, and Susan. If you didn't hear your name called - as they used to say in school - and would like to attend, please send me a PM with your email address. Look forward to catching up on the Eighteenth... it'll be a little different from our Panera coffee-klatch surroundings, but no wait for the restrooms! :)

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Cheers, Nigel. I'll include your gmail address to distribution list. :)

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Thanks Andrea for organizing this and Matt for hosting. We plan to be there and can’t wait to see everyone!

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Nigel, that's great! Instead of just seeing my face you can see everyone. This will be much better than passing the phone around for a FaceTime call.

Mona, I gave Matt the only email I have for you. If you and Dave would like to each be on your own devices you should give the other email to Matt. I did that for myself and Jim.

Matt, thank you so much for taking the time and making the effort to do this. It is so appreciated!!

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Thank you Andrea and Matt!!
I got the email invite and hope to attend.
Cheers!

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Yea! Looking forward to this.
Thanks Andrea and Matt!
Stay well everyone.
SharYn

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Thanks, Andrea and Matt. Ed was glad to hear the no-pants-required comment :-)
See you on the 18th!

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I had a virtual Happy Hour with friends last night and realized that we might actually have to have some structure to our virtual meeting. It won't work to have everyone talking at the same time. My idea is that we can go from person to person. When it's our turn we can talk about any travel subject we like. It can be a trip report, discussion about an upcoming trip that you are scheduled for or just thinking about, or whatever else is of interest. If someone has questions they can be answered by one person at a time. We should probably have a moderator for this. If anyone has ideas on how to make this work please share. I've never had a virtual meeting before.

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Hi, all,
We have been meaning to check in to see how you're doing in this weird new world and we just gave Matt our emails, so we are planning to participate on the 18th. Hope you're all doing okay!
Best regards,
Rob & Debra

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I'd better get my virtual oven ready for virtual brownies for our virtual meeting.

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Looking forward to seeing you Debra & Rob! Who else can make it to our virtual meeting?

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Hey guys, we made the difficult decision to cancel our trip in the fall and will push it back to late summer/fall 2021. We are going to change up our itinerary and we are seriously considering going to Sicily. Any information or advice would be welcome.

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Hi guys, tomorrow is the virtual meeting. It will be nice to see everyone. For those of you that plan to use two devices in one house, Matt recommends that you been in separate rooms. He thinks that for the size of our group we won't have any trouble with talking over each other. We have trouble with that at a regular meeting so fingers crossed it works out okay. :-)

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Just in case there are others besides myself that are clueless about how to join the meeting, here are Matt's instructions-

Open up Safari, or whichever default web-browser you use with device.

Open your email account. Within the email/invite, there's a URL-link... click the link.

An option 'Join from your Browser' may appear automatically. If it does not, select download & run Zoom.

The option 'Join from your Browser' will appear.

You will be prompted to enter your name.

Click 'Join' to be taken into the meeting.

There is a very slight possibility that the meeting might start a few minutes late. Do try logging in at 10:00.

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Hi Andrea. See you soon. I will be trying to figure out where the mute button is to keep me from over talking...

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Hey guys! We plan to attend and are looking forward to seeing everyone! One big problem though....how do we get Lauri's brownies?

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Hello -- if anyone's interested in starting a little early, the meeting is activated. Dave & Mona and I are already on, c'mon in when you can!

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I can’t make it today...but that's one less voice in the cacophony ;-) I’m pretty sure I can still enjoy Lauri's virtual brownies, though...

See you next month, one way or another!

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What a wonderful time that was. We really enjoyed it. Thanks for inviting us.

And here I was looking forward to Eileen’s barbecue.

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They were virtual brownies, virtually baked and virtually eaten.
Maybe next month ...
(next year in Jerusalem ??)

Thanks Matt!!!

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That was fun!!
Good to see you and Carol Nigel.

I missed you Eileen... : (

Thanks Matt and Andrea!

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That was really fun to see everyone and to catch up.
Thanks for hosting, Matt.
Same time next month!

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That was a fun meeting. Matt, thank you for hosting and making it happen. It was good to see you Jo, Nigel & Carol.

For May we will see how regulations progress. If we are still under stay at home orders we can Zoom again. Even if the orders have been lifted and if Panera is open, I don't know that I feel comfortable meeting in a restaurant. We discussed the possibility of meeting outdoors somewhere. We will revisit this in early May.

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That was fun to see everyone again, especially since I missed being able to attend in March. Thank you, Matt, for setting this up for everyone.

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Great to catch up with everyone yesterday, thanks especially to our UK and Germany constituents for participating and providing status on respective local conditions. Even learned about the blue penguins... until Mona referenced seeing them in Australia, I thought for a moment Laurie might've put something in the virtual brownies. 😏

Everybody stay safe and keeping fingers' crossed for May get together.