Best way to create a contact list?

Best way to create a contact list?

We often want to browse through our contacts before a trip, and decide who we should email to see if they are available to meet with us when we're in their area.

What I have done in the past is:

1) Go to the Contacts tab
2) I've created a custom view with location details and I use this to filter down to a particular city or country
3) Scroll through page by page the contacts and check off which ones I want to write to
4) I can't recall exactly what this step was, but I thought I had the ability to go to More Actions after I had checked all the contacts that I wanted to contact, and was then able to create a list from the checked contacts...but I can no longer figure out how to do this.

Is this the right way to go about this?  What would the right step 4 be?  We will generally have anywhere from a few hundred to a thousand contacts in any given location, and expect to write to 30-50 of them for a meeting.