Vacation Dreaming

Do you enjoy the planning of a vacation more than the vacation itself?  Or am I just an oddball?  I love doing the research on how'll we get there. where we'll stay, what'll we see, eat, drink, visit, etc.....I become more obsessed with the planning, then find that the actual vacation is too stressful.  Maybe I missed my calling to be a travel agent?  To plan and book trips, and not have to take them? Sounds divine to me!  I study the vacation area maps so long, by the time I arrive, I feel like a local and can find my find way around with little difficulty.  So why do I not really enjoy vacations?  Part of it is I feel guilty for spending the money.  As a frequent victim of buyer's remorse, vacation spending gets the same treatment.  Maybe I should have used the funds to beef up my pitiful emergency fund, or use it to pay someone else to repaint the house so it can actually get done this year, or refinish the hardwood floors......anyway, you get my drift.  Am planning an August vacation now, but may end up talking myself out of it long before August!