TWE 044: Some people like to travel alone, others like to travel together with several friends. Which do you prefer, why? This is a controversial issue about whether to travel alone or with some friends. Depending on personal experience, personality type and emotional concern, we may find some people advocate the idea of traveling alone. Others, on the contrary, believe that traveling with friends will be more preferable. As far as I am concerned, of the two opinions, I would rather agree with the latter than the former. My arguments are presented as follows.
To begin with, traveling with friends will promote and strengthen the relationship between them. Nowadays, due to the fierce competition in the society, people have to spend more and more time on the study and work which consequently reduce the time of communicating. Their relationship is becoming estranged gradually and not harmonious as before. However, getting together to travel rightly provide them a valuable chance to change the situation. During the journey, not only can they appreciate the gorgeous scenery together, but also they can have a heart-to-heart talk by sharing everyone s life happiness, work experience or even some misfortunes, which would improve the understanding among them. Also, in the process of traveling, they will help and care each other when meeting difficulties. Thus their friendship will get promoted definitely.
Next, it will make our journey safer if we choose to travel with friends. One s knowledge and skill are always limited compared to several people s strength especially in some special situation. For example, when you want to climb a high mountain, there are always some unexpected difficulties and dangers. Traveling alone means that even if you are in an emergency such as trapped into a rock, there is nobody to help you. On the contrary, under the same circumstances, you can get timely helps from your friends if you go along with them together.
In addition, people could save more money if they adopt the means of traveling with friends. For instance, they can take the advantages of the travel agency s big promotion plan which requires several people attending together. They merely consume half the amount of money as much as that of traveling alone. With the saved money, they could buy other things they want, like beautiful clothes, or interesting book which bring them a better life.
Of course, traveling alone also has advantages to some extent, for example, it is more flexible, and you can arrange your travel plan freely according to your own schedule. But if all these factors are contemplated, the advantages of traveling with friends carry more weight than those of traveling alone. From what have been discussed above, we could draw the conclusion that traveling with friends is a better way than traveling alone.