Jakob Zeeb

7 Questions to Ask Before You Travel Together

Having good travel chemistry with someone can elevate a trip like nothing else. The flipside? If you aren’t navigating from compatible objectives, it can break your experience. I learned this the hard way: years ago, on a trip to Thailand, my travel buddy abruptly decided to fly home early — hardly a day after we’d arrived. I’d bought my ticket to Bangkok on his request, as an extension of my own pre-existing plans; he said it would mean a lot to him if I’d join him for those dates. Imagine my stupefaction, thus, when he made the following declaration from our rented hostel room, chuckling as if he’d just had an earth-shattering personal epiphany: