Meeting internet friends for the first time...

I wanted to piggyback this thread to the one I started a couple days ago, the Time limit thread. I didn't want to change direction of the thread and hijack it with this question.

When meeting nudist friends from the internet, for the first time, that are located locally, do you prefer to meet them at a textile venue like a coffee shop first or do you prefer to meet them at a nudist venue; beach, club, resort or non landed club meeting?

How long before you'd invite a new nudist friend/friends to your house to join you in social nudism?

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As we visit local nude beaches frequently we have tended to meet online nudist friends at them if we've arranged to meet for real for the first time. As they're already online friends we will likely know a reasonable amount about them to know that we'll get beyond the initial hello stage if we're looking to spend time with them. We know a good number of regular users of our local nude beaches so we may well discuss with the online friends if they want to be among a larger group or if they'd prefer to find a quieter spot and spend time just with us. If they're long-time nudists they're often OK with being among a larger group of nudists, if they relatively new to social nudism they may opt for a quieter spot. We'll most likely have told our other friends that we're going to meet some new friends so they'll give us more space and not overwhelm the new people if we sense they might not want to be meeting lots of new people all at once. We might also want to spend time just with our new friends.

The nudist beach we use the most has no parking immediately nearby, its a 20-25 walk, we'll probably meet the new friends there and walk with them through the woods and down the cliffs to the beach as the beach is only signed once you're near it. Its not always easy spotting people you've only seen online photos of when they're nude, when we're all clothed, so we have probably informed each other about our vehicles and distinctive clothing. On the other hand we've never had any problems finding online nudist friends when we've arranged to meet for the first time at nudist clubs, as we're nude, just like how we'd seen each other online.

Sometimes we've met online friends like this from further afield in this country and abroad when they're visiting our area. Or when we've visited they're region. As we're all nudists we like to meet new people where we can be nude, even if we run out of conversation we can still enjoy being naked. A few times we have met online friends in a clothed environment for the first time, this has usually been when we've all travelled further to nudist venue, a coffee shop maybe as it was a more convenient place to meetup.

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I have welcomed online friends to our Nudist Retreat a number of times. All online friends are welcome to visit with no ground fees. We have had quite a few spend a week with us. The solar eclipse welcomed 25 campers and 10 indoor guests. I very much enjoy visiting and meeting online friends in person.

I anyone is planning on visiting Haulover 10/20-28 we will be in that area and would be happy to meet.

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We have had a few different experiences meeting friends from TN. We had been chatting with a couple for awhile and were visiting the state they live in. They invited us to their home which was a four hour drive for us. We decided to visit them for the day. When we arrived, another couple was also there. We joined the nude group and visited with them all day. They invited us to stay over which we did. We enjoyed our visit with them and remain friends, but have not seen them again.

The male part of a couple was working in our area. He was able to drive to our home one evening for us to meet in person. We went to dinner and had a great conversation with him. We hope to visit the couple while we are on vacation in 2020.

The last couple that we have met from here in person have become good friends. They were in the area on a trip and we decided to meet them at Laguna del Sol. We were able to spend the day with them and get to know them. We set up another visit at Laguna, but for three days this time. We shared the same unit which gave us more time to become friends. We have traveled to Mexico and Hawaii with them and have visited their home. We remain good friends.

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I wanted to piggyback this thread to the one I started a couple days ago, the Time limit thread. I didn't want to change direction of the thread and hijack it with this question.When meeting nudist friends from the internet, for the first time, that are located locally, do you prefer to meet them at a textile venue like a coffee shop first or do you prefer to meet them at a nudist venue; beach, club, resort or non landed club meeting?How long before you'd invite a new nudist friend/friends to your house to join you in social nudism?

When I joined the Apollo Group on here I conversed with a couple of the people quite a bit and we set up a play date at Apollo. It was a nice meeting. I think there were four of us that met including a woman I had never met online before. We met up a couple of times after that but it's been awhile since I've been to Apollo and have kind of lost touch with them.

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One of my now best real life friend couples I met in here. He and I met at his club and weeks later we all 4 met at our house. I've had good discussions with several couples and this has been my experience when it comes to making plans to meet up and this is after they have reached out to us. A whole lot of talk, hyped up to meet and never any results but a whole lot of no shows or just fizzles out on there end. The more continued talk there is about a meet up is the indicator nothing is going to come of it. I am most comfortable with inviting and hosting them to the club we are members of, set them up with gold cart and make sure they are welcomed and have a great time. I have never asked anyone if we could come over to their house and meet up with them nor would I. We have been invited several times by others but with our business it is near impossible to travel though it would be great to do so.

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We've only met one couple from TN...they're about 150 miles east on I-10; they're good folks and we have enjoyed our two dinner meetings but have not had a chance to visit at home. They live out in the country (also N FL) but we've had health problems sink any potential get together. I do hope we can work it out but we'll just have to try and work it after this virus isolation goes away.

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oh I have things to say but its late

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We have met several couples on here and then met them at one or two of the nudist resorts we go to from time to time. Our first in person meetings have always been at nudist resorts based on logistics and also common ground. We can meet in public and visit, get to know each other. One of the places we had met a couple the nudist venue actually does background checks. That doesn't stop some people because they don't have records, but it does help some. Of the couples we have met, we have really hit it off and unfortunately don't get to get together with them enough.

We have only met couples from here. We have met singles in person and then connected on here.

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We've met a few couples from here. We usually meet for lunch or dinner, if all goes well we stay in touch and go to the nude beach together and in a few cases they've had parties at their houses and we met several other nudist couples.. Heck I even met one couple, the wife worked at the same place as I did we just never knew each other enjoyed the nudist lifestyle

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We've met about 15 people from this site: Some at a resort when we were planning to attend at the same time, and some at a beach as well. We've met several in our travels when we could sync-up at a textile location and a C-O venue wasn't handy. We've also met some locally when passing through our neighborhood, either at a textile location or at our home. By learning a bit about all of these folks ahead of time, we've had nothing but positive experiences.

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