{"id":1859,"date":"2011-10-25T17:23:32","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T00:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.singleoccupancyblog.com\/?p=1859"},"modified":"2023-12-27T21:29:50","modified_gmt":"2023-12-28T01:29:50","slug":"the-flipside-of-travel-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wanderlustforone.com\/staging\/3560\/perspectives\/the-flipside-of-travel-expectations\/","title":{"rendered":"The Flipside of Travel Expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Waiting at the South Kensington tube station at midnight.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I had a dream, many years ago, about the first time I would visit London. In my dream, I touched down in an airplane that looked oddly like a Boeing 677 Stratocruiser<\/a> painted in a dark green, worn to a dull luster by time. As I stepped off the flight and unto the mossy cobblestoned runway in the center of London (wha?), I dropped to my knees, brought my face low to the ground and kissed the earth of England.<\/p>\n

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Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Colin Firth.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As an Anglophile, I\u2019ve dreamed for years about visiting the United Kingdom. This was the land of Chaucer, of Shakespeare, and of Colin Firth, after all. \u00a0The land of afternoon tea, and Queen Victoria, and Jane Austen. Subconsciously, I assumed the sheer euphoria of being in England would simply ferry me about in a state of bliss, and that all would be right in my world.<\/p>\n

Sounds nice, doesn\u2019t it?<\/em><\/p>\n

Well, the reality of London looked nothing like my dream. You\u2019re not surprised, are you?<\/p>\n

Not that my introduction to London was bad of itself. Sure, I was over twelve hours late after one of the worst travel experiences I’ve had to date<\/a>, but I wasn’t expecting that the airline would lose my luggage, that I’d miss the train to Glasgow, and that I’d end up dropping almost $150 to spend four hours in a hotel room in London near Euston Station because I couldn’t leave for Scotland until the following morning. I’ve traveled enough to know that sometimes things don’t go exactly as planned and that you should never bank on your expectations.<\/p>\n

But one of the best parts of traveling is<\/em> the expectation. Having something to look forward to. Knowing that you\u2019re going to be confronted by an environment that\u2019s different from your own, however subtly. On the flipside of expectation, however, is the danger of prejudging a place you\u2019re visiting without having seen or experienced it yet and placing unrealistic expectations on the experience you hope to have there.\u00a0When we expect travel destinations to fulfill some fantasy we\u2019ve drummed up in our minds, it’s easy to feel let down when the fantasy just simply doesn\u2019t prepare you for the reality.<\/p>\n

But here’s the reality: travel isn’t always easy or comfortable. Sometimes, you don’t get your own way and sometimes you do. You’ve just got to learn to roll with the punches and stay flexible so you can adjust your perspective to each new and different situation.<\/p>\n

So although it’s sometimes difficult to balance travel expectations, I think I’m getting better at it. I\u2019m learning to wipe my mental slate clean and to approach each travel experience like a blank journal, ready to record each moment as it comes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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