| If you are trying to plan a trip with friends or if | | | | happened. |
| you are thinking about it, traveling with friends is | | | | Travel with people you trust and respect. You |
| almost always fun. However, there is a modicum | | | | should never plan on being irresponsible when you |
| of trust that needs to exist in order for everyone | | | | are away from home. Also, make sure that |
| to enjoy themselves and part of this has to do | | | | wherever you are traveling to- even if it is around |
| with how responsible each person is financially for | | | | the block- that you have enough expendable cash |
| their share of the trip as well as for their personal | | | | as well as some other backup should you need it. |
| behavior during the trip. | | | | Make sure that you have the contact information |
| At no point in our lives to we get the travel bug | | | | of all of the people that you are traveling with (if |
| than when we are young and in college. Suddenly, | | | | it's a small group). In the event that something |
| we're planning weekend road trips to the beach | | | | happens and an emergency contact needs to be |
| with our friends and making bigger plans to spend | | | | reached on your behalf, it is always a good idea |
| spring break in some place like Miami. I can still | | | | to exchange this kind of information prior to the |
| remember when I was in college and a few of | | | | departure for your trip. |
| my friends (myself not included) decided that | | | | Another reason that you want to make sure that |
| they wanted to spend our spring break at Myrtle | | | | you travel with people you trust and who are |
| Beach. When they came back a week later, I | | | | responsible is to make sure that you are always |
| was subjected to all of the wild stories of what | | | | looking out for each other so that no one gets |
| went on- how they ran out of money and had to | | | | left behind, lost or put in harm's way. Too often |
| hitch hike back to their beach house as well as an | | | | we hear stories about young men and women |
| even more disturbing story about how they were | | | | disappearing while on spring break with their |
| at a party one night and were too drunk to drive | | | | friends or while enjoying a brief weekend |
| home. As they started to leave the party, a | | | | getaway. Traveling with other people doesn't |
| couple of guys that they had never met before | | | | always guarantee you safety in numbers no |
| offered to give the three of them a ride back in | | | | matter what the age. Plan ahead, and somewhere |
| the back of their pick up truck late at | | | | in that planning phase, plan on being responsible |
| night....Needless to say, this was not their smartest | | | | for your actions lest you live to regret it later on. |
| idea. And while nothing happened, there is nothing | | | | The practice that you experience with travel while |
| to say that something couldn't have just as easily | | | | you are young will serve you well in future trips. |