{"id":359,"date":"2020-02-19T16:47:44","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T16:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/0445787.netsolhost.com\/travel\/?p=359"},"modified":"2022-04-25T15:18:23","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T15:18:23","slug":"picking-a-good-travel-companion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/0445787.netsolhost.com\/travel\/?p=359","title":{"rendered":"Picking a Good Travel Companion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What is your travel personality?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Suppose you are looking for a travel companion and a friend or acquaintance expresses an interest in taking a trip with you. Do you set a travel date and start packing your bags? Not if you value your sanity and your friendship.<\/p>\n<p>Take some time to determine your <strong>travel personality<\/strong>. Travel personality refers to personal habits and preferred travel activities. For example, you could be a(n):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Early riser or night owl<\/li>\n<li>Talkative or quiet<\/li>\n<li>Big spender or budget conscious<\/li>\n<li>Fast food devotee or local restaurant explorer<\/li>\n<li>Independent or&nbsp; interdependent<\/li>\n<li>Driver or passenger<\/li>\n<li>Social drinker who enjoys a glass of wine with dinner or a person who never drinks alcoholic beverages<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Knowing your travel personality gives you a good start in getting to know&nbsp;&nbsp; how you and the potential travel companion get along.&nbsp; Start the conversation over a beverage or a meal. If the first conversation goes well, take a low risk&nbsp; overnight or day trip together to sample how your might interact while traveling. Do a debrief after the trial trip &#8211; what went well, what did not go well.<\/p>\n<p><strong>One final bit of advice is to trust your instincts.<\/strong> If you get a sense that traveling with this person might reduce or eliminate your enjoyment of the trip, say no.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Originally published in 2008)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is your travel personality? Suppose you are looking for a travel companion and a friend or acquaintance expresses an interest in taking a trip with you. Do you set a travel date and start packing your bags? Not if you value your sanity and your friendship. Take some time to determine your travel personality. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/0445787.netsolhost.com\/travel\/?p=359\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Picking a Good Travel Companion&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,64,63,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advice","category-travel-companion","category-travel-personality","category-trip-planning"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/0445787.netsolhost.com\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/0445787.netsolhost.com\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/0445787.netsolhost.com\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/0445787.netsolhost.com\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/0445787.netsolhost.com\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/0445787.netsolhost.com\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":447,"href":"https:\/\/0445787.netsolhost.com\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions\/447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/0445787.netsolhost.com\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/0445787.netsolhost.com\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/0445787.netsolhost.com\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}