Traveling with someone is the best date ever !
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If you two manage to enjoy each other's company for a significant time (say, more than six weeks on the road), then this person is to keep. When traveling you get to know the person's ups and downs, pluses, and minuses; you get to see them in their glory (dressing fancy to a party) and fully exposed (skinny dipping); they get to feel you with and w/out words while driving and singing out loud.
Traveling reveals to you their values, how they treat - under pressure and without preparation - foreigners, friends and mostly you. How they behave as partners, do they leave the chores to you or take the burden, do they complain or take responsibility.
And if after all that exposure you two still wake up with a smile, next to each other, next to these mates of yours, then know that you have found your private star traveler, the one who has descended to earth with you from your home nebula; know that this starman/woman is now your life partner on the journey called "life on earth"; and beyond.
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And this trip of yours is the first chapter in the book you are writing. Together.
And this, friends, is how love looks like, if you ask me.