Do you ask people you meet on vacation if they are Fodorites?
 

I've met and talked to so many nice people on this trip and started wondering if they participated on Fodors. I wish I had asked some of them because It would have been fun to meet someone I may have communicated with through this forum.

No but on our last trip I wish I had. When I posted my trip report and talked about the nice couple we talked with at Caveau d'Ile , a Fodorite replied that they were the couple!

No, though I have met one on holiday - but I knew she would be on the same ship. It was just a question of identifying her.

Gathering outside the Tower of London, waiting for the Ceremony of the Keys, we talked with others and asked how they had learned of this little-publicized ancient event.
(I never heard of it until reading Fodors.)

"Rick Steves!" they proudly proclaimed.

I think Rick got the information from Fodors!!!

I learned about it long before Rick or Fodor's travel forum. I think from a colleague at work back in the 1980s. But the info on fodor's about where to stand and how to get tickets is first rate.

I>Do you ask people you meet on vacation if they are Fodorites? <

I did that once.

I was at the police station for aver 4 hours explaining what a Fodorite was.

I'm barred from re-entering Molvania.

((I))

I once found a piece of Fodorite, but the jeweler said it was just semi-precious.

No, but sometimes I have a trip advisor backpack on and we get a thumbs up. Don't have anything with Fodors on it.

On a recent mini GTG, moolyn kindly gave me a fodors bag.

now I don't go anywhere without it.....but no-one's said anything yet. Perhaps I put them off?

I have always wanted to make a PA on my flights that I am working to ask if there is a Fodorite on board but I don't think my company would like that?

ann - is your fodor's bag bright orange and nylon and folds up into a pouch? I just won a summer reading prize at my library and decided against the fodor's bag but perhaps I should trade in the tote bag I did take for the bright orange one??

I just wear the pin - let them find me.

I don't ask, but a lurker spotted me in Turkey. I mentioned in passing that I use a travel board called Fodors. She asked if I post or just read and I told her I post. Then she said, "By any chance are you P_M?" I nearly fell over with shock and I asked how she knew. She had read a lot of my questions about Turkey since she was going at the same time.

This makes me wonder just how many lurkers are out there.

I wish they still had the pin.

annhig,

I'll look for you and your bag--I'll be carrying mine so you'll know me!

Oh, <b>dutyfree</b>, if you'd post your photo on your profile here, those of us who fly out of Chicago could identify you without your having to make that PA!

ann - is your fodor's bag bright orange and nylon and folds up into a pouch?>>

that's the one!

cw - I'll be looking out for you.

Tell us about the pin. I have been posting on and off since 2004, and the pin must have been before my time.

29FEB-I actually commute to a different city to work overseas.
I do chat with alot of passengers in the back of the plane "over the pond" everyweek and I always seem to be recommending the Fodors forums to them hoping that someone will say that they are on them.So far-no one?

When are we ever going to have a Fodors GTG in Chicago?

No but then I've never asked either. I have met lots of people that get information on trip advisor. We went to China in May with Viking River Cruises, before the trip I did lots of research on cruise critic and when we returned found out there were posters there from the same trip. It is a small world.
Susan

No. I suspect the majority of posters here are american and we tend not to spend time with other americans when we travel. No reason not to - we just don;t focus on that - and tend to end up in conversation with people from other parts of the world.

And Fodors has never come up. (I don;t ask them about Rick Steeeeeves either.)

I hope I will be there.. would love to coincide.

( The Chicago GTG)

I'm not seeking Americans out, but certainly seem to find them!

Other people walk by and just say hi to us...do we look that American (don't answer that!) we don't seem to be dressed any differently than anyone else. Why not ciao or bonjour or guten tag?

I did ask one other couple if they were on Fodors, but they were on a foreign travel forum.

I like the idea of asking how someone knew about an activity of place.