Sarah met Marcus at a food stall in Hanoi. She was struggling with her Vietnamese pronunciation while ordering pho, and he stepped in to help. Three months later, they were living together in Melbourne, planning their next trip to South America. Their story started with noodles and broken phrases, then grew into something neither expected when they first packed their bags.
Travel changes how people date. The usual rules disappear when you're sharing a twelve-hour bus ride through the Andes or waiting out a monsoon in a Cambodian guesthouse. Time moves differently on the road. A week feels like a month when you're spending every hour together, exploring temples at dawn and drinking beer on plastic stools until midnight.
