20 Tests for Your Next Travel Companion
| June 30, 2017
Shapeshifter Skills
Is your travel companion the sort of person who complains loudly about British people while on a train in England? Or does a British person, upon discovering your friend is American, exclaim, “But she’s so small and quiet!”
Though it can be fun to immerse your friend in a new experience (taking my father to high tea at a fancy London spot was rather like taking Ron Swanson), there are also times when it’s good to blend in with the locals. You can test how good your friend is at this by taking them to a new part of your town or city.
Spoiler: Military brats and third culture kids rock at this.
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