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Carpoolers and Walking Trip Companions

By Wendy Bumgardner, About.com

Updated October 23, 2006

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What you want: Someone to share a walking trip with, for a day or longer. One of the big benefits of walking clubs in Europe is that they arrange for bus or vanpool to walking events.

Benefits:

  • Share expenses - gas, park entry fees, parking fees.
  • Have a driver AND a navigator, someone to get lost with.
  • Share hotel expenses on walking trips and tours, save the single supplement.
  • Camaraderie, shared achievement and someone to talk to on the way.

Where to Find

  • Join a walking club and recruit traveling or carpool companions.
  • On walking tours, ask the tour company to match you with other individual travelers so you can save the single supplement.
  • Post on our Forum.

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