| Vandana Makharia Often we want to travel to far off places but don't find the right partner for it. Our friends just seem too busy to join us for the trip. Internet is full of forums like on lonely planet, IndiaMike.com, Thailand.com and many more country specific ones which help you find a travel buddy. But this can be a little tedious to sit and hope for somebody to reply to your post.
Online sites focusing on Finding travel buddies can rather be of much help. There are lots of good ones available.
On sites like these you can easily generate your request of wanting to go to XYZ place and other members willing to go to same place can show interest in your plans. More over you can use this as a single point to spread the message across to all your friends by inviting them to the trip with a single email.
Some people especially women might be little skeptical to the idea of finding a travel buddy online, which they think of as traveling with strangers. However in today's internet dominated world, a few checks and interaction with the potential buddy can help you get rid of such mind sets.
Here are few quick checks you can make before accepting to travel with a person you haven't met before -
1. Google this person's name, you will be surprised to see how much information there is about an individual today on net.
2. Check his/her Friend networks on the travel as well as other social networking sites. A lot is said by the profile of ones friends.
3. Try cross checking the person's work and home information make a call or ask your friends to make the call for you.
4. Interact with the person enough to be able to come to a conclusion, at least some bit. Now if someone is trying to deceive you, it's possible, but listen to what your gut says about that person after interaction.
5. Don't jump in accepting the request of travel buddy, look for his/her behavior and responses to your actions.
6. And after these little checks, if you have decided to move on with the person on the trip, leave all the details of the person with your family and friends including the Photograph. Make sure that person knows about it.
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Written by Vandana, she has keen interest in online industry, writing and travelling. Currently working on a cool website http://www.traveldaddy.com.
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