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Originally Posted by g6snl
A few years ago I decided to try travel with others. I eventually got two mates lined up who had been saying they will do a trip for years and then never doing it. Eventually they both said yes to a short 5 day trip to Scotland, their first trip. I was quite happy to sort some good routes as I had been several times. What I hadn't agreed to was to sort every single thing out. It was like travelling with a couple of kids that couldn't or wouldn't do anything! Neither of these guys were at all like this in daily life but as soon as a "motorcycle trip" started became totally dependant on me for some reason. It was quite a surprise to be honest and just shows how some can change when slightly out of there comfort zone just a few hundred miles from there home.
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Ha,Ha - been there and done that. Back at the dawn of time (the 70's!) we did quite a few van / minibus trips round Europe with "paying passengers" - basically friends of friends of friends who wouldn't have gone on package tours with their parents but quite liked the idea of "adventure travel".
Our version (known informally as "Pisquick Tours") was rock bottom basic (and therefore cheap) but for many that just added to the attraction. There were also regular UK trips at Easter / bank holidays etc so dealing with people who'd sign up then change their minds a week before departure, or expect to be waited on hand and foot, or tried to take over half way through as they knew better, or wanted to go back "right now" half way through, or ran out of money, or couples who broke up mid trip was a normal expectation. The bike trips were so much easier.
Memory lane pics of some of the people on the trips -
(Innsbruck in winter. So long ago they hadn't invented colour pictures)

(Somewhere down the Adriatic coast)

(Somewhere on one of the Greek islands)

(South of France)
I still travel with a couple of people from those trips but age and cynicism would give me cause to reflect before I'd take on anything like it these days.
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