Comments on: So You’re Looking For A Travel Partner

By: prinks

prinks — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 00:22:53 +0000

This is a good one. Finding a good travel buddy is so hard sometimes.

By: Roosh

Roosh — Wed, 02 May 2007 02:29:33 +0000

Sort of what like doug said, I think the common theme is finding a person that likes putting work into something with average payoff that is completely optional.

camping, cooking, building robots, etc.

By: shmooth

shmooth — Tue, 01 May 2007 23:26:00 +0000

cooks are different, yes, but I’d suggest that the quality cooks possess more than non-cooks is ‘anal retentiveness’.

whenever someone tells me they can cook, i say, “that’s great! wow, wish I could cook. did I mention how great that is?”, but I’m thinking, “what’s _wrong_ with this person?”

some people – very few – can actually cook and not be completely boring, too. other folks can cook, but don’t require several hours to prepare a 15-minute snack – i like those people. too bad not many of them exist.

travel flick!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0318462/

summer is a brilliant time to begin traveling, because even professionals take off from their normally-wretched lives for a couple of months.

By: doug9149

doug9149 — Tue, 01 May 2007 23:07:57 +0000

I love reading your site Roosh because you constantly remind me how much I appreciate my wife. She’s American, but not your typical American. Born and raised in Dallas, TX and easily a 9-10 (out of 10) there and a 9-10 (out of 10) here in LA where we live now. Enough background.

I’d say a better question to ask would be, “Do you like to go camping?”

That question covers all your cooking question does and more. Such as can you rough it if need be? Can you deal without being clean 24/7? Are you aware of your surrounding? Are you going to start whining when you have to carry your backpack 5 miles from the train station to the hostel? I’m sure there’s more I’m not thinking of.

My wife, who hates to cook (I’m the chef in the relationship), loves to camp. She never complains and is always ready to go.

Consequently, she was the best travel companion I could’ve imagined having when we took a 3 month walkabout in Europe in 2001 (right after 9/11). We both got leave of absences from our jobs, bought 3 month Eurail passes and plane tickets and off we went. We saw 17 different countries, staying in hostels the whole time, and didn’t get to the English speaking Ireland and England until last. We got in 1 fight that lasted 3 hours. That’s it. Everything else was amazing and our lives were forever changed.

Keep up the good work and good luck on all yoru adventures. Sorry for the long post.

By: momo

momo — Tue, 01 May 2007 23:07:27 +0000

Your post mirrors the thoughts I’ve had lately.
I’m going to France this summer with my boyfriend. I’m worried that its going to ruin our relationship! I know he’s going to get frustrated about not perfectly understanding the language, directions, etc. I can see him sulking and not wanting to do anything.

By: jlsmi11

jlsmi11 — Tue, 01 May 2007 22:58:09 +0000

I rarely cook for myself, and I’m not very talented at it when I do. I can admit this.

Yet I’m a great travel partner. Perhaps being in the military have made me an exception to the rule?

By: kayla

kayla — Tue, 01 May 2007 21:06:44 +0000

One of my favorite things about traveling is meeting the locals.. without the locals – you wouldn’t get to do something randomly cool like.. go to a olive farm (owned by a local’s family) and see how olive oil is made (in an old school cold stone press)- just cause you chatted them up in an open air market…I digress.

(I love Joy of Cooking – it’s my favorite cookbook.. some of us do find joy in cooking ;))..

By: Some Catchy Chic

Some Catchy Chic — Tue, 01 May 2007 19:36:47 +0000

Hmmm, I can understand how travelling alone would be liberating and give you the freedom to do anything you want. But who will you get to tell all the fun things you get to see about?

By: DCescorts

DCescorts — Tue, 01 May 2007 15:59:15 +0000

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By: ribald

ribald — Tue, 01 May 2007 14:47:46 +0000

but i’m of the frame of mind that traveling alone could sometimes be boring too — am i right? i mean, i know for me, i have two friends who i’ve done most of my traveling with around the world. i do definitely have one firm principle: a good friend doesn’t necessarily mean that person is a good travel partner. i take my cues from what my friends and i do when we go out in DC — and that is basically drink a lot, laugh, and chase skirt. so i know when i travel with my buddies, we’re going to do basically the same, no matter what city is on the itinerary. if i’m dating a girl in DC … whoops, haha, silly me — i forgot for a moment most girls here are fat, boring, ugly, and wholly undesirable — but let’s go to fantasyland and pretend i’m dating a girl in DC who’s actually somewhat of a catch. with her, i’m assuming i’d do more civilized activities — galleries, wine tastings, lazy afternoons on park benches, etc. — so if i travel with her, i figure that’s also what i’m going to do with her on holiday.

beyond that, you have to consider the destination. i’m not going to venice with my best guy friend, and i certainly wouldn’t take a girl to rio… ah, magical rio, where i will retire if my karma continues to build… but i digress. i think *where* you’re traveling to should serve ultimately as the deciding factor for *who* you’re taking with you.