Traveling with Women...

I have done this in the past, with both family and friends (including now ex-girlfriends), and I can safely say that the more women you travel with, the less 'cool' it actually is when compared to how 'cool' it sounds beforehand... Having lived women, I'm certainly privy to the many 'secrets' and predisposed notions about women's 'living' habits... I knew that traveling with three women, each her own personality, would be something I likely would not experience again, so I took it all in stride... Knowing the group quite well - Lau, Melanie, and of course, Carey, the level of prisiness (Melanie and Carey could have a serious debate about who is more prisy) would be relatively high, so I did my best to prepare them all for a less fanciful travel experience - overnite bus rides, hostels, backpacking (something Melanie did not known prior to arriving in BA), and generally speaking, not planning too far ahead and just kinda winging it...

Well, I learned something - guys and girls travel differently, obviously!

After a great trip in Mendoza, which included a great little hostel, it was clear my thoughs for a more low-key travel experience would likely not fly, as we had no concrete plans for Chile when we arrived in Santiago, and the hostelling experience, while great, was not going to happen again... So, we did what any 'normal' American group of backpackers would do - we went to the second-most expensive hotel in the City and got rooms... At this point, things were heated, as there was no real direction, and I was a little annoyed at girls being girls, and I'm sure they were, cumulively more annoyed at me being a boy...

Once we got thru this little 'hiccup' things were all good, but the experience is likely one that will not be had in the future - both because I'll be a bit more cautious in my 'planning' and I likely won't be traveling with 3 women, solo, not that I'd be opposed...