Thanks, y'all, for all the repllies! All good ones too!
All I was looking for was someone to correspond with about Alaska, since I've been offered a couple of jobs teaching there. Not looking for romance in my posting or profile. Then this guy from TX is asking me to fly down there from the beginning. I agree that if he had offered to pay for the trip, it would have also suggested strings attached. Whether I could afford to do such a thing, but the ticket and accommodations (which I can't), I think it was inappropriate so early in the correspondence. Why not just correspond? That was all I was interested in. Men I"ve met on the Internet want to get right to it! What ever happened to getting to know someone? And, there was no mention of phone calls, which I didn't want anyway.
He says he's writing his memoirs of his exp as a military consultant in Afghanistan and Iraq, so I offered to read some of them...Nada..he hasn't put them to paper yet.
Patty