This thread is my life, at least the last 11 years of it. I live in VA and my fiancé lives in NY, 610 miles away. I met my him in July 1996 on AOL and we communicated by chat, e-mail, and phone until March 15, 1997 when we met in person for the first time. We saw each other a couple of times per month in April and May of that year, but since then we have seen each other every weekend somewhere, except when a NY blizzard caused me to return home, "a trip in vain," and I had a conference in TX on a weekend in fall 2006. I have flown to him, he has flown to me, we have met in between by car and air. We have been to numerous states and small towns to meet, as well as the Bahamas, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Boston, D.C., Montréal, Toronto, Paris, Nice, Cancún, and Negril, Jamaica together. Since I teach college, most summers I have spent in NY for weeks at a time. We are hopeful that someday our careers will allow us to live in the same place! But until then, we are making the best of the air transportation, hotel points, and frequent flier miles! What a crazy 10 years of travel it has been...........