Founded by Tara Russell of Three Month Visa Coaching and Consulting and run in partnership with Laurie Koski of Pink Shoe Tours, this is a great Meetup for seasoned globetrotters and armchair travelers alike! Our Travel Book Club discussions and Travel Lectures Series events feature books and speakers to inspire you if you are currently dreaming of "hitting the road" as well as provide necessary resources for planning and realizing that trip of a lifetime. Our focus is building a community of tr …

Welcome to the World Traveler's Network. We have organized this group to encourage people to come and share their experiences with others. At the same time, each individual will have an opportunity to network and make friends with other well traveled individuals. Travel, allows one to see the world and better understand various cultures and cuisines. It helps expand the mind and opens up and challenges your beliefs. We believe that through travel, people become better human beings. Travel …

Our Gay Travel Club is based in San Francisco. We are a fun group of people that love to share the world with others. We have monthly gatherings with guest speakers. We will have a great line up of exciting trips soon. Feel free to spread the word of our group. Some of places we are talking about visiting within the year are Costa Rica, Europe, Vancouver / Victoria B.C. and NYC. Come learn about what's happening in the world of travel and meet new people at our next gathering!

Meet with other adventure travel enthusiasts here in the Bay Area! Come to an Adventure Travel Meetup to see / share photos and stories of great trips, and get ideas for your next big adventure. Have fun with like-minded travelers -- and, who knows, maybe even find a travel buddy! Meetups will generally focus on a particular area of the world (e.g. S.E. Asia, Middle East, Latin America) or a style of travel (e.g. hiking, bike trips), and you'll have the chance to suggest the focus for future …

Welcome to the San Francisco International Adventure Travel Club! Simply put, this group is for people who want to make friends and travel the world. The group tries to Meetup locally in the San Francisco area to bring adventurous people together to talk about where we’ve been and where we dream of going… with the ultimate goal of traveling to amazing and adventurous places around the world with a group of other liked-minded people (see our events). As much as we are looking to find other …

Party with Travelers, International Students, Au Pairs & Locals in San Francisco! FREE membership, just join us for some fun! This group is for people who are either living or traveling in the SF Bay area and are looking to have some fun in the city! Come socialize with us and meet other locals, students, au pairs and travelers from around the world! When you attend an event, often you'll feel like you've just landed in Europe, Australia or South America without even leaving the city.  We head …

We are a group of individuals who have made adventure travel an integral part of our lives - and want to share unique, budget adventures with other fun-loving, independent travelers who value cooperation. We invite all travelers, from the young to the young at heart, to contribute to the unique social dynamic that is created on every Green Tortoise trip. We plan on organizing local get togethers and unique day trips where we can share our travel stories, experiences and learn about new destina …

Meeting other fabulous and fun girlfriends to hang out with! New in town, make new friends. Happy San Francisco girlfriends, women's social. Girls just wanna have fun. Join our circle of genuine 20s and 30s females, and let's have a good time! We are fun loving girlfriends. We have big hearts filled with passion and love! We are ladies who enjoy cocktails, girls night out, dancing, music, happy hour, and having fun in life! We are professional women with substance Who are willing to make a diffe …

Welcome to the World Travelers Club! I began this group because of my love for traveling and my desire to see the world with other like minded individuals. I am neither a travel agent nor a tour operator or a member of the industry, I am just someone like you who loves to travel and desires a positive and fun travel experience. After being stuck in tours where I knew no one and/or having to pay the huge single supplemental fees, I decided to start this group. If you love to travel internatio …

A group of people 50 and over interested in travel who can share their ideas, enthusiasm, experiences and fun. We'll meet at various locations in East Bay to meet one another, have fun meeting new friends and hopefully find travel partners interested in visiting places both domestic and foreign.

Looking for ways to connect with fellow experiential travelers in-person around the globe? Join an AFAR Meetup! AFAR enables the experiential traveler virtually but we also think that talking in person—about travel, culture, food, and many other potential shared interests—is pretty fantastic. AFAR.com members and AFAR magazine subscribers have shown interest in connecting with each other offline worldwide, so we’d like to encourage anyone to attend and organize AFAR events in their own city! …

This groups is meant to unite travelers. Love to see new and amazing places and meet people from around the world? So do we. Join if you're interested in meeting people with the same passion of travel. We get together to do fun things here in SF, talk about past trips, and plan future ones!

Whether you’re an avid photography enthusiast or just enjoy taking pictures, PhotoFly Travel Club is the perfect way to vacation, go on an adventure, and meet great people. Our members love travel, adventure, culture, and often photography as well! All of our destinations offer amazing opportunities to capture unforgettable photographs and each trip has at least one activity that is perfect for taking pictures.

We travel the globe in comfort striving to see the most amazing places around the world and create unforgettable memories doing it! With friends or on your own, Singles by the Bay Travel is the best way to explore the world and make friends for a lifetime!

World Traveling photographers is a group for new or veteran photographers alike,  focused on sharing our amazing experiences through the lense in a fun, relaxed environment. If you have traveled the globe, great! If you want to with a fun group of people, this is your meetup. It is also about giving back. The goal of this meetup is to not only connect with like minded travelers who are able to capture a world in a moment, but also to improve the lives of those we journey to learn about. We will …

San Francisco Worldwide Travelers travel to various destinations in the USA and Overseas. In 2013 we have the following trips planned: March 2013-New Orleans April 2013-New York City July 2013- Jamaica August 2013-Ireland September 2013- Italy

While backpacking in Patagonia, every evening I would look forward to going to the base camp kitchen. It was a circular space with glass windows all around. There were tables along the windows where fellow hikers would take turn to cook their meals. And then, they would sit around the communal tables eating their meals and talking to other travellers. On many such evenings, I enjoyed trading stories with people from different parts of the world such as Germany, Brazil, Belgium, India, China and …

“I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list." —Susan Sontag I decided to start Travelers Cafe because there is no place in Marin for travelers to meet and share experiences from their trips. The Travelers Cafe is an opportunity for you to come and share drinks, good food and travel tales & escapades. It also is a way to learn how to make that once in a lifetime trip or your next adventure happen! Your hostess, Teri of TRAVELS with TERI, invites you to join her at various ethnic cafes and …

Make your next trip MEANINGFUL! Attend Meetups and happy hours, learn how to travel responsibly and make a difference. Meet fun, involved, interesting people. Share with us YOUR story about the meaningful things YOU already do! With 20 years of experience spanning 75 countries, we offer enriching responsible, meaningful trips and adventure & volunteer travel to the world's most exciting international destinations. In addition to offering the best in sights, culture, nature and activity - each tr …

We are group of people who like to travel the world not only as tourists, but as spiritual pilgrims.  Many of us are psychics, seers, astrologers, healers, and some are just plain ol' wanderlusters. We prefer to explore first hand the things within a culture that are beautiful and stimulating to the mind, body and spirit.  We engage both the indigenous cultures and natural beauty of the countries we visit and we always meet local healers and spiritual leaders. Martin Buber said, "All journeys ha …

Jetpac is hosting a series of travel events in San Francisco. The three main events are: 1) Jetpac Travel Trivia Night Come and spend an evening challenging yourself and having fun with other travel enthusiasts! When: Every 2nd Tuesday in the month 7pm @ Bissap in the Mission. 2) EXPLORE Presentations Guest speakers are presenting their travel photos and experiences from a range of bucket list destinations to give advice on best time to go, what to do, what to bring etc. When: Every now an …

Stuck in the city for the holidays, like Christmas? Couldn't or didn't want to pay the $600+ plane ticket to go home? Join this group and let's figure out a reasonably priced place to travel to for the holidays. If anything, this can always be extended throughout the year :)

Do you love travel? Do you love photography? Yes to both? Travel photography can encompass anything you see once you close your front door! This group is based out of San Francisco, but will offer travel photography destinations all over California, the Western United States and international destinations. Plans are in the works for Cuba, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam hope and South America. I love sharing my passion and curiosity for both subjects with everyone I meet. I hope we will have a chan …

Have you ever noticed that you have a different personality when you travel? Are you considering a gap year or sabbatical? Are you dreaming of going on a pilgrimage or a meditation retreat in Bali? Join us for our unconventional travel talk series, where we'll explore expat life, the international languages of love, spiritual travel, travel aliases, what a sabbatical can do for you, and more. The format of each event will vary—we'll host spirited talks, interviews, debates, lectures and round t …

Are you an older adult with a thirst for knowledge and desire to see the world with like-minded individuals? Road Scholar, the not-for-profit leader in educational travel is launching regional Meetup groups across the country specifically for active Baby Boomers who want to travel and learn more about the world around them and meet others in their area who are looking for the same. If you are a mature, single adult man or woman who loves to travel but doesn't want to travel alone, a married coup …

Hi everyone! This group is for the people who are living in the SF Bay area and are looking to practice their English. We will have some funny activities around the city! Come socialize with us and meet other students, au pairs and travelers from around the world!

Calling all globetrotters who love to go native and connect with locals! This is a group for anyone into art, food, and local culture all around the world. Looking forward to exchanging travel stories and planning some of our own excursions in San Francisco!

Jetpac is hosting a series of free travel events in San Francisco, and with this group we're expanding to the East bay! We're hosting free monthly travel talks in Emeryville, Oakland and Berkeley with a social mixer so travelers can meet and share their experiences and get inspiration tips and ideas to plan the next adventure. Our guest speakers are experienced travelers and destination experts from all over the world. They will be presenting their travel photos and experiences from a range of …