" To have the best trip possible when we’re actually on it, we need to stay loose. “One of the arts of savoring experiences and vacation is to let go of all that expectation,” Bryant explained. If you don’t, you’re never really allowing yourself to be in the moment, but are “always comparing it to what you thought it would be. "

― Stephanie Rosenbloom , Alone Time: Four Seasons, Four Cities, and the Pleasures of Solitude