This is the meetup planning post. If you're available to meet up in these areas at these times, please let me know in the comments or PM me.
All plans are pretty fuzzy (except for the flights; they're anything but).
London - Saturday 22nd Aug - Wed 26th Aug
22nd: arrive, settle in - meet up with people on Saturday night?
23rd: travel to Oxford to meet friend
24th-25th: one day to visit friend in Other Country, one day to wander London's museums
Chicago - Wed 26th August - Wed 2nd Sept
26th: meeting Chicago tumblr/LJ people at a geek bar that night? (I may need a lift.)
29th-30th: social gathering at someone's house?
Other days: if there are any people free to meet up/hang out - particularly in the city, during the day, I'd love your company - whether for a meal, a museum, or whatever activity you propose.
Atlanta
3rd-4th: Jody Lynn Nye workshop
5th-7th: running around D*C - are there any parties, groups, hangouts happening? Who's going and who'd like to meet up at the end of the day? Are there any stitch and bitch things happening? BPAL meetup parties?
San Francisco
8th: arrive in SF ~10am, have until ~4pm to muck around in city, meet people, eat, tour
9th-10th: one of these days I think I might be tripping around with Alli, but the other I can come into the city (or somewhere via BART) to meet people
11th: will probably be in city for much of day since I fly out of SFO at 10:30pm so I have the ENTIRE DAY available right up until I fly home
Keep in mind that I am reliant either on public transport or my hosts being willing to drive me about - this is particularly relevant in Chicago and SF, where both hosts will be working while I stay with them. I don't mind taking public transport (trains/the El/BART/Underground, less happy on buses), but being a single woman travelling more or less alone, I don't really want to be trekking through kms of unknown territory alone.
All plans are pretty fuzzy (except for the flights; they're anything but).
London - Saturday 22nd Aug - Wed 26th Aug
22nd: arrive, settle in - meet up with people on Saturday night?
23rd: travel to Oxford to meet friend
24th-25th: one day to visit friend in Other Country, one day to wander London's museums
Chicago - Wed 26th August - Wed 2nd Sept
26th: meeting Chicago tumblr/LJ people at a geek bar that night? (I may need a lift.)
29th-30th: social gathering at someone's house?
Other days: if there are any people free to meet up/hang out - particularly in the city, during the day, I'd love your company - whether for a meal, a museum, or whatever activity you propose.
Atlanta
3rd-4th: Jody Lynn Nye workshop
5th-7th: running around D*C - are there any parties, groups, hangouts happening? Who's going and who'd like to meet up at the end of the day? Are there any stitch and bitch things happening? BPAL meetup parties?
San Francisco
8th: arrive in SF ~10am, have until ~4pm to muck around in city, meet people, eat, tour
9th-10th: one of these days I think I might be tripping around with Alli, but the other I can come into the city (or somewhere via BART) to meet people
11th: will probably be in city for much of day since I fly out of SFO at 10:30pm so I have the ENTIRE DAY available right up until I fly home
Keep in mind that I am reliant either on public transport or my hosts being willing to drive me about - this is particularly relevant in Chicago and SF, where both hosts will be working while I stay with them. I don't mind taking public transport (trains/the El/BART/Underground, less happy on buses), but being a single woman travelling more or less alone, I don't really want to be trekking through kms of unknown territory alone.
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