devarae
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I had a new experience planning our vacation for this fall and it made me curious if others had ever experienced this too. It's sort of a weird meta-travel question so hopefully this is the right place to post. And if there's been a discussion on this previously feel free to point me there.
Has anyone else ever experienced a travel planning block? Where you suddenly run out of enthusiasm for planning a trip you've been anticipating?
In my experience, normally I love the planning part of a trip-- I get excited reading trip reports, looking at sites, searching for apartments, etc. I am eager to book the flights and make it all "real" and I usually have a ton of energy and just want to spend all my time researching.
Originally, we were planning to return to Italy this fall (2019). I'd been looking forward to it! I'd been really excited to return to Rome, in particular, after our brief visit in 2017. I had lists of sites I wanted to see! But for some reason, when I started actually trying to firm up details, I just... had no enthusiasm. It no longer felt fun, but there was no specific reason for it I could identify. I just didn't feel excited about the trip.
At first I thought maybe it wasn't Rome/Italy, but just me being distracted or anxious about other things in my like, but then I gave myself permission to look at some other destinations and when I got to the idea of Andalucia suddenly all my travel joy and planning excitement came rushing back! So that's where we are going to be going instead.
But I found it weird and I still am not sure why my enthusiasm for the Rome trip suddenly all evaporated. So I am curious if anyone else has had that happen: that you start planning a trip you've been looking forward to only to suddenly run out of excitement for it. And if so, did it come back later?
Has anyone else ever experienced a travel planning block? Where you suddenly run out of enthusiasm for planning a trip you've been anticipating?
In my experience, normally I love the planning part of a trip-- I get excited reading trip reports, looking at sites, searching for apartments, etc. I am eager to book the flights and make it all "real" and I usually have a ton of energy and just want to spend all my time researching.
Originally, we were planning to return to Italy this fall (2019). I'd been looking forward to it! I'd been really excited to return to Rome, in particular, after our brief visit in 2017. I had lists of sites I wanted to see! But for some reason, when I started actually trying to firm up details, I just... had no enthusiasm. It no longer felt fun, but there was no specific reason for it I could identify. I just didn't feel excited about the trip.
At first I thought maybe it wasn't Rome/Italy, but just me being distracted or anxious about other things in my like, but then I gave myself permission to look at some other destinations and when I got to the idea of Andalucia suddenly all my travel joy and planning excitement came rushing back! So that's where we are going to be going instead.
But I found it weird and I still am not sure why my enthusiasm for the Rome trip suddenly all evaporated. So I am curious if anyone else has had that happen: that you start planning a trip you've been looking forward to only to suddenly run out of excitement for it. And if so, did it come back later?