Johanna Ella May ErrobaAre you planning to travel with your friends soon? If you have no idea what to expect, let me share some of my experiences when I travelled with different groups of friends for the first time.
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You will learn more things about each other
When you travel with your friends, you will see how they pack their stuff, what kinds of products they use on a daily basis, their likes and dislikes, or their level of tolerance for certain things. Travelling with friends is a great way to get to know each other better.
You go out of your comfort zone for your friends
If you are sensitive enough as a friend, you will always take into consideration your company’s preferences. Are they okay with sleeping in a tent or do they want to book a hotel room? Do they have the budget? Can they afford food at this restaurant? You’ll go out of your comfort because you genuinely care about your friends.
You might end up falling in love with them
Okay, this is a very rare case but it’s also possible. Travelling does wonders for the hopeless romantic especially when you have a nice view watching the sunset or conquering a summit together. Maybe the love was already there but you are only able to confront it when you go on a trip.
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You will have to share things with your friends
Prepare yourself for beggar friends. They will ask you for your sunblock, or ask you to pay for their meals with a promise to pay later but they never really do. Travelling is a test of your patience and tolerance for each other.
You will argue over little things
Things don’t always go well when you travel with friends. You will argue over really petty things like when you get late for a bus ride because your friends were slow, or when your friend’s alarm clock is so loud, it wakes up the entire city when you really want to sleep more.
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You will swear never to travel together again
Things can go downhill from arguing over little things to swearing never to travel together again. But this doesn’t mean that your friendship is over. Perhaps you just realised that these people are not the type you’ll get along with while travelling.
Your friendship will be stronger
Travelling can make or break your friendship. You either decide not to travel together again, or you’ll come home and immediately plan for your next trip together. Your friendship will become stronger all because you learned more things about each other and decided to accept your friends for who they are on or off a trip.
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They say that travelling is the truest test of friendship. True enough, when you travel with friends for the first time, you learn many things about each other that you will never learn if you’ve never gone on an adventure together.
