I recently started spending a lot of time on Meetup.com. This is a social networking site designed to actually allow you to meet people in real life. It is not a dating site. It’s just a site for people who want to get together with other adults to do activities that interest them.

I joined several groups that are related to travel. A few of them are actually supposed to be for people who want to travel together. However most of them are just for people who love to travel and who love to talk about travel. My favorite one is a group called Food and Travel Chats. We get together at a variety of great San Francisco restaurants and talk about our favorite places to travel.

I’ve gained a lot of great information from this group. I’ve learned about the cheapest things to do in Chicago, the best trails to hike throughout California and the top destinations to consider when planning a trip to Central America. More importantly, though, I’ve gained new friends. I’ve found a community of people who have interests that are similar to mine. I don’t know if we’ll become life long buddies but I do know that I’m happy to have found this group for now.

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