Travel with My Best Friend

Eating was my classmate in elementary school, then we didn't have another chance to be classmates again. However, we never stopped our friendship even we live in different cities or I came to America. Until now, we have knew each other for more than 10 years. I really appreciate this relationship with her because I always have a companion and share life experiences with each other.

"Do you want to go to Chongqing and Chengdu? I really look forward to going there. I'm attracted by not only the hotpot, but also the comfortable life style there," Eating suggested the travel plan one day via WeChat after our friendship stepped into 10 years.

"How about going there to celebrate the 10th year we've been the best friends?" I was so excited about it since we haven't gotten a chance to travel together before.

After looking through many online tips for Chongqing and Chengdu, we chose to go there last winter break to spend time with each other especially on New Year's Day when is also the best time for spicy hotpot.

However, what we didn't expect was that heavy oil and heavily spicy food in Chongqing caused Eating's acute gastroenteritis. When we were heading to Jinli, one of the famous tourism spot in Chengdu, she suddenly thrown up in our taxi. It was also my first time to have someone's vomit in my face. Usually, I can't stand any smell of vomit, and will sick immediately. However, at that time I was surprisingly calm. I carefully wiped out her vomit in the car and her body, comforted her, paid compensation to the driver, and asked him to drive us back to hotel for rest.

"I feel really bad that I ruin our plan," Eating said after we came back to hotel.

"Don't say sorry or thanks. We can't predict what would happen in this journey. The lucky thing is that we are together, right?" I urged her to take some rest in this early afternoon.

At dinner's time, I bought some liquid diet for her when she was sleeping.

The other day, she recovered soon after taking enough sleeping so that we could continue to enjoy our trip after this little accident.

What I want to say is to be prepared for any accidents in your trip. Journey is also like life, we can't know accidents in advance. Accept it when it happens, it will make our journey less unhappiness.