Board Buddies Get-togethers
 

I am curious as to how many have met other "board buddies", either individually or in groups? How far did you travel to meet? What type of event was it?

Once in a while I read (with envy) of people getting together, but besides being up here in the boonies, a trip to town to do errands tuckers me all out.

It always seems complicated, finding dates and places that work for more than two people, and of course there are weather considerations--especially up here where we have winter fifteen months a year.

What are your experiences? Have you got anything planned for the future? I want details! :D

I've met a few...

Momma when she lived in Florida, in Florida

braingonebad, koko and mightymouse in Toledo. Twice

mdolfan, dshesq, donna, karamariesue, dholland, twinkletoes, stacey, Theresa, and about half a dozen others in Houston. Sparky even came down to visit from Mississippi. Woodworker when he was in town.

I met several people from the Prodigy MS bulletin board in the early 90's in the Detroit area.

Experiences have always been good. We go to central Florida and the Toledo area occasionally, so I'll meet up with folks in those areas.

I'll keep meeting up with people. I'm surprised nobody's taken me up on my offer of a behind the scenes tour of NASA Johnson Space Center...

Tom

and Tom?? what about AMN and me?

Well, I have met with freeinhou, AMN, bannet, CBK and a few others but from MSW.

Gol, I hope I didn't forget anyone here or I will never hear the end of it from Tom.

*choke, sniffle...sniffle...*

How quickly they forget.

I would love too but haven't been able to get there - BUT, I will one of these days!!!!!

I have met Riverwild and then I have been to the NE get together with RW and there were so many people there that I know I will miss someone so I am not even going to try..... :eek:

and of course to FFM's house!

and someday I am going to do a road trip to VT to see our own B2U... I have said this for over a year but I have in the back of my mind that this summer a road trip is going to be in order!!! I can travel easier than she can! Then again if she will meet me is another thing.... :rolleyes:

You can bet your butt that if I ever get down there, I will take you up on that. My 11 year old thinks it is so cool that I "know" someone who works there.

I actually organized 2 Pittsburgh area get togethers for members over on MSW. We actually only had about 4 or 5 people show up at the first one, but the second one we had more like 10 people. I also had dinner with Flygirl and mdolfan from MSW.

I have become quite good friends with a couple of people from MSW and have had more frequent personal interaction with them.

Do get togethers include "stalkings"????

I have been really lucky to meet AMN, FG (Cheryl) Wiz and Ceci.

The "stalking" for the benefit of NT members, means that AMN and FG set up a trip and came to see me w/o my knowledge. It was waaaaaaaaaaay cool! They even gave me a Be Nice to DM day. I think that's the day I became a Princess!:rolleyes::winky:

But, there will be an IL gathering in the neeeeeeeeeeeeer future. *like Spring*

You can bet on it!!! :)

I have had a few internet friends come and visit me in Vancouver, and I have been down to Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Indiana to meet others.

We are currently trying to organize a get-together in either NC/SC or NY right now. We attempted to do the same thing last year too, but many of us were too unwell or didn't have the money at the time.

I also plan to head to TX in November as my daughter is playing in a couple of showcase ball tournaments in Dallas and Houston. If I don't make it south this spring, I'll try to organize a get-together while I am there then.

What we've done in the past is plan to meet at someone's house, where they were gracious enough to put us all up for the night, then we all traveled to a resort where we stayed in a huge room. I flew to Minnesota after that, and drove to Wisconsin. My sister lives in Chicago, so that was a good home base for me while I commuted around.

It was exhausting, no doubt. It took me many months to recover . . . but was worth it!

Cherie

Thanks for asking! I was dxd just last April and have met quite a few great folks from the MS boards:

in UTAH I've met up with:
SilverLining
AfterMyNap & CBK
Tamiloo and her beloved Ol Hippie
Shauna

BOSTON
ckepi
av8rgirl
mbsews
riverwild
yeahbut
cimmonz
ania
prettypurlgirl
Karousel
girlie girl

MINNESOTA
PolarExpress

ARIZONA
TurtlePower (my DD)
lcrose (now FlowerPower)
Indy07
AZMomma aka AZJanie

HOUSTON
freeinhou
D_HOLLAND
Chris Mays
MommaD
TexasChristianDude

COLORADO
SneakySam

I had a couple private meetings planned last month in FL and GA, but they fell thru, darnit! (Guess word about me has gotten around). :o

Would have met a few more in my travels, but life happened:

tkrik got sick :(
Earl thought he'd rather go skydiving (go figure?):rolleyes:
GIGI69 got in a car crash and broke her leg :(:eek:
soxmom had sick kids:confused:

Was trying to arrange a little GTG back in Wash DC area, but DH's business trip was canceled. :mad:

Anybody wanna come to Utah and sign my cast?

I haven't met anyone but you can believe I have met some of my closest friends via telephone and internet here! I will meet my dear friends someday. I am looking forward to the Illinois meet in the spring or whenever it happens!