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[quote=Anonymous][quote]We are having so much fun planning our upcoming vacation. I feel like every year this happens: we spend months anticipating and planning with great excitement, [b]but then once we are there we are so busy “doing” that the excitement wanes somehow.[/b]

On our last vacation I made it a point to stop every day and just be present in a “wow, we are really here” type of way, and it did help some. But at the end of each day I was still left wondering if we could have done more to feel immersed.

Could we be over-planning? Getting ourselves too excited? How can I remedy this?[/quote]

This is the problem. You are so busy because you over planned and packed in too much. No time to reflect and enjoy the moments because you are worried about getting to the next activity, site, etc. Leave time to be spontaneous. Sometimes you get somewhere and find out about a cool thing there and decide to do it (and that is what can make for a lot of fun). We did this in Vermont. Decided on the spur of the moment to go to Ticonderoga because we had learned about Ethan Allen and wanted to "see" more of the story. We did this in the Midwest when someone told us to stop in Dyersville and see the "Field of Dreams" set. It was definitely not on our list, but since we give ourselves a lot of time and don't schedule everything, it worked. You never know what you are going to find when you go somewhere and that's part of the adventure of travel. Let your travel be more adventurous and not so planned. You can plan a couple of things of course, but let the rest just sort of flow.[/quote]

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