I moved this thread but will leave the breadcrumb trail for posterity's sake.

Puckster wrote on Dec 25^th, 2012 at 5:27pm:

Someone should set up an online "canoepaddlersmatch!"

Timing is everything.

About ten years ago I did a three week trip with Tripper (basically just some stranger I met in the internet) years ago. It was a great trip! This forum was his idea a few years later and doesn't get used enough IMO. I think I first met him on a trip he did with Jimbo whom I don't think I had ever met before that either but they were easy enough for me to find downstream from Beaverhouse one afternoon.

Copia and various gatherings and organizations are good starts. The group solo idea is easy, kinda like speed dating. Trip reports, posting, PMing works better IMHO. We've all heard horror stories from folks who went with people they knew well in other situations but a trip is different. If it's more than a meet and greet or a rideshare ... you need to commit to some ground-rules, know yourself, what you're getting into and that they do too.

I still have fun seeing/hanging out with some guy(s) "I met on the internet."