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My father travels a lot for business and I have occasionally been allowed to go with him. I have two sisters and a brother and we have usually had to take turns going with him, plus we weren’t allowed to go on every trip he took. My mom almost never went on a trip as she was always so busy with her own career, and she knew how much we loved it, so I think she sacrificed her turns for us sometimes. My parents plan on doing a lot of traveling when they retire so I think she assumes she’ll make up for the lost trips then. This meant that there were usually long and frustrating waits between trips with my dad, and often we would disagree over who got to go where. We tried to structure it on more of a rotational basis, but sometimes we would make deals with each other over specific places. This happened with me one time. My sister really, desperately almost, wanted to go with my father to Italy. Well, that was a popular trip with all of us, except my brother who had already been there.

My sister was willing to negotiate and make major compromises since the Italy trip did not fall on her rotation. It was on mine. I ended up trading a trip to Austria for it and also received a random second option for the next time her turn came up. As it turned out the second trip ended up being going with my father to Nepal. This sounded pretty interesting to me, though I really didn’t know what to expect.

We stayed in one of the cool old Nepal hotels and my dad and I ended up having one of the best times ever on a trip. And we also became a lot closer that year, and had some great conversations. I’m not sure what it was, but both my dad and I felt comfortable and almost compelled to confide in each other while we were having dinner. We had a lot of local food like spicy lentil soup and rice covered with curried vegetables. The Nepalese called this tarkari and it was really good. One of the things we did there was to go to small Nepali dance festival. This was an odd thing for my dad and I to do together as usually we would see sporting events like ball games. The dances were actually incredible and some of them were religious based and some were part of social traditions. Sometimes they used masks and I thought these were particularly intriguing. I don’t know why but my dad and I ended up doing and seeing things that we usually didn’t. I think this contributed to our tendency to talk more. Overall this was definitely the best trip I’ve ever taken with my dad.