By taking a trip to Vegas, you always seem to get the added pleasure of the pre-trip anticipation. How this works for me is this:
Step 1 - Making the actual plane and hotel reservations. No matter how far in advance this is done, pleasure is derived from knowing you have something concrete to look forward to.
Step 2 - Perusing Travel2Vegas message boards for info about specific places or things you'll do on your trip. e.g., for me it is reading about North Strip sights and sounds.
Step 3 - Plotting itinerary. I don't know if others do this, but I like to chart out where to go, eat, gamble well in advance. A form of vicarious living. Then I make refinements as time goes on based upon various factors (coupon availability, bus, shuttle, rental car availability, who's going with, etc).
Step 4 - Engage in conversation with the party you will traveling with on the trip itself. Priming each other for what's ahead.
Step 5 - About 2-3 weeks in advance, receive that physchological boost that comes from knowing your time is fast approaching.
Step 6 - Further lift to the spirits when you are under T-7 days. you can almost smell it.
Step 7 - I don't know if I'd consider packing for the trip anticpatory, but perhaps others do.
Step 8 - Walking out the driveway into your vehicle for the drive to the airport. (This is one of the best feelings)
Step 9 - Making the 90-mile drive to Midway, first stopping at Bobak's Polish buffet near airport, for a pre-flight meal and warm-up for the Vegas-type buffets soon to be encountered.
Step 10 - Maybe I'm easy to entertain, but I still get a little thrill of entering airport and making way to boarding gates.
Step 11 - Lifting off the ground for a nice leisurely 3-1/2 hour flight. After having done the same trip so many times, you get a kick out of seeing same sights on the ground.
Step 12 - Coming into view of Vegas and seeing the hotel skyline (Another of the the anticipation highlights)
Step 13 - Getting shuttle or rental car and exiting airport for final leg. You've arrived and it's hard to top that feeling.
[ May 01, 2003, 02:30 PM: Message edited by: chef ]
Step 1 - Making the actual plane and hotel reservations. No matter how far in advance this is done, pleasure is derived from knowing you have something concrete to look forward to.
Step 2 - Perusing Travel2Vegas message boards for info about specific places or things you'll do on your trip. e.g., for me it is reading about North Strip sights and sounds.
Step 3 - Plotting itinerary. I don't know if others do this, but I like to chart out where to go, eat, gamble well in advance. A form of vicarious living. Then I make refinements as time goes on based upon various factors (coupon availability, bus, shuttle, rental car availability, who's going with, etc).
Step 4 - Engage in conversation with the party you will traveling with on the trip itself. Priming each other for what's ahead.
Step 5 - About 2-3 weeks in advance, receive that physchological boost that comes from knowing your time is fast approaching.
Step 6 - Further lift to the spirits when you are under T-7 days. you can almost smell it.
Step 7 - I don't know if I'd consider packing for the trip anticpatory, but perhaps others do.
Step 8 - Walking out the driveway into your vehicle for the drive to the airport. (This is one of the best feelings)
Step 9 - Making the 90-mile drive to Midway, first stopping at Bobak's Polish buffet near airport, for a pre-flight meal and warm-up for the Vegas-type buffets soon to be encountered.
Step 10 - Maybe I'm easy to entertain, but I still get a little thrill of entering airport and making way to boarding gates.
Step 11 - Lifting off the ground for a nice leisurely 3-1/2 hour flight. After having done the same trip so many times, you get a kick out of seeing same sights on the ground.
Step 12 - Coming into view of Vegas and seeing the hotel skyline (Another of the the anticipation highlights)
Step 13 - Getting shuttle or rental car and exiting airport for final leg. You've arrived and it's hard to top that feeling.
[ May 01, 2003, 02:30 PM: Message edited by: chef ]
