How to stay in touch with friends you met overseas and why it’s important

It can be challenging to stay in touch with people you met on your travels. You can take the initiative, maintain space for conversations and connections, and ultimately have longstanding travel friendships with people who live in other cities. But you can also learn to let go of people that are disengaged.

Having a blast with travel friends on my last night in Russia after a month-long stay

During your travels, you will meet a multitude of people in bars, hostels, through existing friends, etc. If you’re like me, meeting people isn’t so hard. It’s staying in touch with them that I find a bit challenging. I feel like I’m the type of person who wants to build secure connections and continuously remind myself that that will usually not be the case. Building strong connections takes a lot of energy and time, and being so far from these people doesn’t make it any easier. But it’s worth keeping them in any way you can! And if they’re down, you’re…