People often talk about traveling with friends, traveling alone and traveling on tours. What often gets overlooked is traveling with your significant other. Sure, every year around February 14, travel sites runs an irritating number of “Romantic Getaway” pieces about all-inclusive resorts, trips to the top of the Eiffel Tower and horseback rides on the beach. But why can’t we just take our better halves on the trips that we normally take on our own or with our friends?
Hiking Machi Pichu will be romantic if your best gal is there with you. Camping in the Alaskan wilderness can be sexy if your favorite mountain man shares your tent. Wandering the souks of Morocco is even better if you’re spicing up your relationship.
So, rather than always traveling with friends or by your lonesome, invite that person who wakes up next to you every morning. And don’t just take the typical romantic getaways, either. Get creative. Get adventurous. Get busy!
Great advice, Mike. Why NOT travel with someone you know you get along with? If you do go this route though, I have a request/another tip:
Don’t go in the beginning stages of your relationship when you are still somewhat obsessed and probably always in physical contact with the other person. If you can’t walk down the street without using a smitten mitten or shoving your hands in each other’s back pockets, stay home. If you can’t admire the sunset without a half-hour makeout session, skip the double decker bus tour.
Otherwise I might want to punch you in the throat.