Companion Fare: Personal Essays About Traveling With Loved Ones
Briefly

Traveling with someone special brings unique advantages, such as bonding over shared experiences and enhancing convenience and safety during the journey. While solo travel has its allure, a travel companion makes it easier to navigate logistics and create lasting memories filled with inside jokes. However, the travel industry often portrays companionship as exclusive to romantic relationships, making it challenging for non-romantic partners. Ultimately, effective companionship in travel can occur among friends, family, or mentors, regardless of romantic ties.
As a pair, you can create new memories, add to your repertoire of references and inside jokes...and build a language spoken only by you two.
In matters of convenience and safety too, a travel buddy can be invaluable...the sentence 'I'm going to the toilets; please watch my bag' could be, in the best of times, I trust you, even I love you.
Whether they're a parent or sibling, best friend or boss, our soulmates in travel aren't necessarily our soulmates in life and vice versa.
Yet so much in the world of travel can feel exclusive to only romantic couples, even if just in name: honeymoon suites, couples massages, anniversary cruises.
Read at Conde Nast Traveler
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