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I came across this and I thought it was so good I had to share. In the online book about low-budget travelling, “How To See The World”, the author points out the parallels between marriage and traveling with someone.
Traveling with someone demands you know yourself and your partner. It is often said there would be less divorce if couples traveled a few months together before tying the knot. As with marriage, if you only think of your travel partner in terms of honeymoon rather than alliance, you are in for a sad shock.
Traveling with someone is an intense experience. Rarely in normal life do people spend so much time together, and make so many decisions, often based on little information. Selecting restaurants, taking buses, choosing museums, finding accommodation–all can cause great stress among couples. As a friend wrote, “Discovering you are hopelessly, completely, absolutely incompatible in a tent at 8000 feet and it’s thirty-two degrees outside is not a good situation.”
Just because someone is a good friend doesn’t mean he would automatically be a good travel partner. Traveling with someone with whom goals, money, and even personal habits have not been fully discussed can be a relationship-destroyer and trip-ruiner. Get everything in the open before you commit yourself to a backpacking trip to hell.
The three basic categories of travel friction are:
- One has an hourly itinerary, the other doesn’t own a watch.
- One prefers first-class, the other prefers the back of the bus.
- One’s makeup case is heavier than the other’s backpack.
Do not underestimate profound differences such as these.
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Both must understand a good travel relationship requires compromise on both sides to achieve a greater whole. Whining and nagging is usually the result of one partner feeling like he or she is not being treated fairly. Listening is the most important–yet most abused–skill between people.
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