The interruption has effects. Prior experience. The distinction. The practical knowledge remains. The automatic handling of it does not. Functional but demanding. A great deal of travelling relies on small automatic behaviours. The contents. These faded without anybody noticing. The sensation. And resolves within two or three days. Knowing this beforehand removes most of its weight. The practical changes are the second category and are easier to address. The first. The example. Which is the single most common failure in a return to travelling. The remedy. Broad. Which means prior knowledge of a destination may be out of date. Checking afresh rather than relying on memory is the correct approach. The awkward part. The third point. Somewhere undemanding beats somewhere interesting. Which runs against the instinct to make it count after a long wait. The risk. Somewhere familiar, nearby and short removes almost all of that risk. The benefit. The sequence. The fourth. Several years alters what somebody can comfortably do. Arrangements. Planning for the present version rather than the remembered one prevents disappointment. The resistance. The gap itself was usually caused by something. the one change worth asking for categories. Before. Because a trip taken against a constraint that still exists goes badly. Anyone whose return trip worked expected to feel out of practice and were not troubled by it.