New Travels and Planning for Summer 2012

Well we are going to visit Northern Europe this year.

So we are in the midst of planning our trip. Ever have 4 Type A personalities all talking and yaking at the same time. Each of us afraid we won't get our wants, desires and dislikes out on the table!!! But we are muddling through our desires,likes and dislikes. We get there, we just sometimes wonder how we get from A to Z.

What we know for sure, is we have a flight out date, a return flight back and our cruise booked. Yes, we will mix in a cruise along with our land travel.

What we have so far is a 17 Day Scandinavian-Baltic Cruise booked, 8 days in France and 2 days in Stockholm.

More too follow as we move through from planning to implementation.....

VIRTURAL VS PHYSICAL FRIENDS?

With this new age of social networking and social groups you sometimes come across individuals whom you become aquainted with on a "virtual" basis. Over the last couple of years I have become a pretty active participant in "Ravelry". This is a group of knitters and/or crocheter's from all over not only the US but other countries. On this web site, there are differnt groups that I have joined and have struck up what I call "virtual friends". However, something has happened with these virtual friends, they have actually become what I call "physical friends". Through our friendship there are many things we have shared with each other. Can it be that because we may be located apart from each other that we share some of our most inner thoughts and/or opinions or is it something else? I used to think this but it is not true. It is like a physical friendship, there are those persons you like and those you don't like. I have also found that for myself instead of sometimes holding back when someone hurts my feelings and/or I do not agree with them, in a virtual environment I am more apt to not hold back how I feel. So I often wonder if others have virtual friends and if they have met them and how it went. I just met one of mine and will be posting about our encounter with my next post.......