First Vacation, Expectations Game

If you are planning your first vacation you need to come to grips with your expectations.

We all begin any journey with heightened expectation. Whether it is a vacation or it is a purchase of the newest hi tech item we have been longing for. That great new item will usually send us into a disappointment stage after we have gotten it and found out that it can’t read minds and help us to teleport. The same expectations game holds true for travel plans. You are going on a trip. When you arrive there you are going to be met by other human beings. The funny thing about human beings is that they are human. They make mistakes. They are not perfect and neither will be the places that you are visiting.

Tour guides may be overworked and under paid. The driver that you pick may have been born there, but does not know how to get you to that special little out of the way place you were told about. The location is famous for its food, but the restaurant you picked turns out to be the next place Gordon Ramsey is going to visit on the international version of his Kitchen Nightmares tour.

We can plan for most things, but planning for perfection is a recipe for disappointment.  Things are going to go wrong, but this should not scare you off from taking the leap. The time that you spend away from home and work will be well worth what ever minor problems confront you along the way.

If you well planned and mapped out your first time taking a vacation it can be a great time. This is not a post designed to discourage you. I am just giving you things to think about before you book your travel plans.

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