Weekend off...

I'm flying off to Connecticut tomorrow morning to spend the weekend with a friend I've known only online thus far. We'll be driving half way to Boston to meet up with another internet friend.

Meeting people that you've met online used to be a tabooed occurrence but just last month one young man from Eugene, Oregon spent his winter break (5 weeks) traveling from one coast of the US to the other and back using only the hospitality and generosity of people who volunteered to help him in an online forum. You can read all about it here: The Human Baton

More than 300 people drove, lodged and played tour guide in an effort to show that there are a LOT of people out there who are not the predators and pedophiles that the media loves to sensationalize.

Yes, those elements are still there, but there in EVERY facet of human society... what matters is that the rest of us are out here too.

So, with that said, I'll be staying with Linda and her husband, and meeting up with Ruth. I'm going on an adventure that was facilitated by the internet... maybe more of us should take chances like this.

Posted by Lexy at January 11, 2007 05:02 PM