Anticipatory travel moments produce distinctive joy distinct from daily life

Evidence

I clambered onto the rear seat and leaned back. Taxis, I loved taxis. Not the ones I came home drunk in, but the ones I caught to airports or railway stations. Was there anything better than sitting in the rear seat of a taxi and being driven through towns and suburbs before a long journey? — Karl Ove Knausgaard, A Death in the Family, 1274

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: A person can recognize a peak moment of happiness while it is happening — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 269; Happiness tracks whether things exceed expectations, not how well things actually go — Brian Christian, The Alignment Problem, 636; Adventure is an island in life with self-defined boundaries — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 466 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• A person can recognize a peak moment of happiness while it is happening #expands (0.60) — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 269
• Happiness tracks whether things exceed expectations, not how well things actually go #qualifies (0.45) — Brian Christian, The Alignment Problem, 636