A survey of over one thousand adults found that vacationers were happier, but perhaps surprisingly the boost showed up mostly before the trip — in anticipation — and largely faded once they got home.

I notice it most in the days before I go somewhere. The tabs open in the browser, the half-made list, the looking up of a restaurant I will probably never get around to visiting. There is the feeling of something good coming. But what I have slowly come to admit to myself is that hum [...] The post A survey of over one thousand adults found that vacationers were happier, but perhaps surprisingly the boost showed up mostly before the trip — in anticipation — and largely faded once they got home.