Wanted: Travel Partner
How to Find One
By GORP Travel Expert Rob Sangster
"I'll be damned if I know." I'd just asked my friend Bill who he was going to travel with when he goes to Greece next spring.
After trying to find a travel partner for weeks, he was thoroughly exasperated. Bill is one of many who have decided that they'd like to see the world in the company of another person. There are thousands, maybe millions, of potential travelers who are divorced or between romantic involvements and whose friends and family are not free to join in their adventures. The result? They stay at
home and grump.
Consistent with my anti-grump campaign, I'm going to offer some solutions.
Seek Solutions
Take a look at bulletin boards in colleges and bookstores. You may find a note from someone else who's looking for a travel partner.
Review International Travel News, International Living, and other travel periodicals in which travelers seeking partners list where and when they'd like to go. Ask the travel editor of your newspaper whether there is a local travel club that organizes trips for singles.
You can even leave home alone, hoping to find one or more partners along the way. It's easy to meet travelers in museums, on city day-tours, on trains, at the beach, on the trail, in hostels, and in restaurants. If one of these spur-of-the-moment partnerships doesn't work out, it's easy to move on alone.
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