If you are lucky enough to have a close knit circle of friends, you know and your friends will too, that you all are inseparable and enjoy hanging out together. It's a blessing to have a circle of friends that you love, especially if you carry one another through different phases of life through good times and in bad. A few things that I would love to experience, at least at some point in my life, is a girl trip to wine country, a shopping trip to the LA Fashion District, a women's retreat to a tropical island, or if you can't travel together, have a travel themed party.
It doesn't necessarily have to break the bank to be able to travel to certain girl time destinations, but getting on a plane and possibly even going to another state? Why not? Let's just say we're not talking about a possible remake of the Hangover movie, and we're definitely not talking about where what happens on your trip stays on your trip type of situations either. Let's face it, we are no longer in our 20's.
On a side note, I'm even willing to travel with my friend's college bound children like for instance, college trips to New York just to be able to experience New York. The experience of going away with friends is a gift, and it's something you should be doing at least once or twice in your life. Also, the presence of husbands or partners and children shouldn't get in the way, if you don't want to include them in the trip, we can always just carve out time for ourselves as a group. With that, here's all the reasons I should go on a trip with my closest friends especially when I need that "me" time.
- Ideally, there really should be no awkwardness. If and when you I go on a trip with a group of people that I don't know, there will be that level of awkwardness as we do get to know each other. But since I've known my friends for so long, we can talk about what we want to talk about, do whatever we want to do, and I know I won't be judged. Friends who are within my comfort zone, or have been categorized in my life as such, what a better way to travel than with then my closest of friends?
- Coordinating that vacation with friends in general means that we all get to choose the destination, choose the mode of transportation and choose how many of us can go. We can explore an unknown destination or we can bring our dreams to life with that dream vacation. Not only that, but we can even make a list of bucket list ideas no matter how impossible they are, and bring them out when we're on our trip. What a better way is there to make those memorable moments?
- Taking those selfies, drinking wine, eating gourmet foods, going shopping in the city, we can do anything we want on this trip. To be able to have total freedom with my girlfriends is an experience that I would cherish for a lifetime.
- Ok so maybe partying the night away is over-rated. Coffee shops, bar hopping or even some day drinking, finding a good jazz festival or just get our groove on. Being with my closest of friends in the world, can be a time to let loose and the right dose of medicine to forget one's troubles and issues, a sort of escape. The point of the trip is connection and bonding and during these moments are opportunities to have the best conversations.
- The company. It doesn't matter where you are going or why you are going there, it's the company that you keep that matters the most. There's nothing like traveling with your friends and reminiscing about the good old times that you've had while on vacation. The other thing to remember is that one day, the vacation you are on is going to be a good old time that you will reminisce over and over again.
- You'll be excited to do everything. Whether you are heading out to a resort, a boho fest or just hunting for that vintage find, everything that you do will be an exciting adventure. There will literally be nothing that you aren't excited for, which means that you'll be able to keep the luggage light just to make your life easy. As long as you have a decent budget for your vacation together, you can't help but have a great time.
- It's so much cheaper to travel as a group. Whatever your dream destination may be, it's often much cheaper to go together as a group than it is to go alone. You'll be able to build some strong bonds when you are sharing money on this vacation, so sit down together for a roundtable meeting with an amazing dish of food in front of you and make planning the trip agenda a fun activity too!