This is What Happens When You Travel with Your Friends for the First Time

This is What Happens When You Travel with Your Friends for the First Time

They say that travelling is the truest test of friendship. Read on if you have no idea what to expect when you travel with your friends for the first time.

Are 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.

Also read: Travelling With Friends: A Survival Guide

You will learn more things about each other

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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

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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.

Also read: This is How You’ll Fall in Love When You Travel

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

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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.

Also read: Why It Is Important to Have a Circle of (Travel) Friends

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

travel friends first time

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.

Also read: Why People Who Love Travel Make the Best Friends

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.

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Johanna Ella May Erroba
Johanna Ella May Erroba

Johanna is a free spirit. She channels her energy through music, writing, surfing, and travelling. She expresses all of her musings on Camera and Cheese.

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