My entire life I have always wanted to visit Walt Disney World in Florida, but my parents didn't have the money to go on  many vacations and when we did it wasn't more than a state away. Since I knew I couldn't go, I read and watched everything I could about the theme park.

I read about the rides and the hotels and restaurants and dreamed of the day I could finally see it for myself. Thirty years later, I am almost there and I will be able to bring my children, so they won't have to live vicariously through books and television like I did.

I have two worries because of all the reading and watching I have done through the years. Will my expectations of the event be far better than the event itself. I didn't have to wait in line for any of the rides. I didn't experience the crowds or bad weather in all the books. I have dreamed of what it would be like to visit Epcot center, but what happens when I finally walk into that dome.

The other worry I have is that there will be no mystery left. I know that park inside and out in my head. I have seen been into all the restaurants from books and television and experienced the rides. Am I going to know everything before I even physically experience it.

I know there are many people out there that read travel books as preparation for a vacation or as a way to experience a place they think they may never see. Despite all these fears, I wouldn't trade in one book I read because it sustained me until I finally get to see it.