You’ve had more adventures together than Thelma and Louise, Milo and Otis and the folks of Gilligan’s Island combined (and no kittens or puppies were harmed in the making of YOUR travels).
For better and better stories, for poorer and poorer pockets, through jetlag and through hangovers – you’ve been through it all, because travelling with someone is almost like being married to them.
And if you’ve found that special someone, that travel bestie, you should hold on to them for dear life.
Here are 20 things only friends who’ve travelled together can identify with.
- You’ve spent so long together, you could write a book about all their weird habits and idiosyncrasies (and you still love ’em anyway)
- You can communicate in another language (not an actual language, but one you invented)
- You’ve heard all their stories, secrets and business ideas, like, five times. Basically, you’ve exhausted all possible topics of conversation (but you still keep hanging out anyway)
- You can spend breakfasts reading or dinners in silence and feel totally comfortable with it
- By the end of the trip, you’re not just sick of your own wardrobe, but theirs too. Because you’ve worn everything they own, like, five times
- You’ve spent so long sharing a bedroom that you no longer care if they see you in the nude
- You discuss your bowel movements more openly than the weather, and sincerely congratulate each when all goes well (OMG, guess what?! Today was a 4!) #noshame
- You’ve wing-personed many a holiday hookup like the good amigo you are. Cos you know who they’ll find hot before they do (man bun alert, six o’clock)
- You’ve had fights, numerous ones, and recovered every time
- You’ve stopped each other getting into (too much) trouble multiple times
- You’ve got so many selfies together you could start a Tumblr. Oh wait, you probably already have…
- You’re totes able to order for each other at a restaurant if one of you is in the bathroom or up on the roof taking a pano
- You’ve nursed each other through homesickness, food poisoning and numerous hangovers (seriously, you could legit be a nurse now what with all the Imodium you’ve administered)
- By the end of the trip, you may wanna kill each other, but as soon as you get home and go your separate ways, you feel a strange emptiness inside…
- You no longer have to fight anyone for the first shower, but weirdly that makes you sad…
- You arrange to catchup and debrief as soon as possible
- When you’re out in a group, your other friends get so sick of you talking about your trip that you just end up talking to each other
- When you go to a Mexican or a Moroccan restaurant, you secretly scoff to each other about how inauthentic the food is
- You chortle at super exclusive in-jokes which no one else gets (you kinda had to be there, soz)
- Travelling without them doesn’t feel right. All you can think about is how much better the dancefloor would be if your other travel half were here
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