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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My husband got norovirus on our trip to Sonoma wine country. I pulled my calf muscle on the 2ns day of a 4 day hiking trip. We didn’t get to snorkel or take a glass bottom boat tour in the Keys because it was too windy for boats to go out for 4/7 days of our trip. We just got back from Northern Cascades and Grand Tetons national parks - and our view of the mountains was obscured by forest fire smoke. These are not big problems. They are minor disappointments and we still found things to enjoy.

However there is one “vacation” I can’t let go. I had a terrible, stressful year at work where I felt completely burned out. I scheduled a whole week off of work. I worked extra in advance to make sure nothing would slip while I was out. I scheduled a haircut and a manicure along with my dental cleaning. I scheduled coffee with an old friend and lunch with another. I checked out a book from the library and hired a home organizer to help me declutter for an afternoon. The Saturday before “my week”, one of my kids came down with a stomach bug. It passed through each family member with a new person falling ill each 36 hours. I had to cancel all of my appointments and spent the week in the bathroom or cleaning and doing laundry. I returned to work more exhausted and angry than before I left. The only bright side is that I had planned to be out, so I didn’t have a backlog of work to make up. The pandemic started a few months later and it was almost 3 years before I was able to take off a few days in a row to relax and tackle some home projects in peace. Knowing my week was coming up was the one thing that kept me going for the months leading up to it, so I totally understand OP’s disappointment. [/quote]

I think this post really hits at the heart of it. Being disappointed over the trip is a symptom of something larger, like burn out. [/quote]

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