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Post by Mary on Mar 20, 2004 11:08:10 GMT -5
I want to go backpacking through Europe next summer for four months and was thinking of going with my best friend. I was just wondering however, has anyone ever had any problems going with friends? How can you keep from driving each other crazy, seeing the same person day in and out? How did you bring up ways of maybe separating for a few days, that way you don't tire of one another? Would you recommend that I go on my on my own all togeteher? Thanks
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Jordo
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Post by Jordo on Mar 20, 2004 11:42:06 GMT -5
Well 1st of all Going alone or with others is a prefrence ,me personally I like to have people come with me.Kinda takes some stress out of some things to have someone there to talk to.
When I go next april for my trip ill be taking along a friend, but I know sooner or later we will get on each others nerves,so what we are going to do is just simply say,"Dude youre driving me nuts,Ill meet you under the eiffel tower a week from today at 8pm,ok?"And we will seperate and have some alone time.If they are your best friend they should know you and will understand if you just wanna shoot the breeze by yourself for a few days.Hope that helps!
Jordo
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Post by UneeklyCommon on Jun 1, 2004 16:01:34 GMT -5
Hey,
I think it's something that you know, yourself. I know for me, I am a "go with flow" type of guy, so I need someone who is a planner and maybe a little anal retentive!! Haha! Not that bad, but you get my drift! haha!
Erich
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snorkelman
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Post by snorkelman on Oct 5, 2004 6:50:35 GMT -5
I've done it both ways. Plan on going with your friend, but also plan on what happens if you drive each other nuts and have to separate. Maybe even plan on only doing part of the trip together and picking a point (maybe half way thru) where you discuss whether to keep traveling together, or to separate. In general, unless your personalities are very different, you probably will not get on each others nerves for a few weeks. When i traveled with a friend for 6 weeks, it was around week 4 when we started to get on each others' nerves. I solved that problem. Although we still lodged together, we did some sightseeing separate for a day or two and that let each of us have our own space and it re-energized us.
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