I told Leonard in the immortal words of Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible 2 'I'm going on vacation. If I tell you where I'm going then it won't be a vacation.'
The thing I love most about going on vacation is that I get to leave behind any kind of schedule. My entire life is scheduled from morning to night and when I'm on vacation there is no schedule.
But he was so great!' Yes and the people who got on the Titanic thought they were going on a vacation
An author never has a vacation. He's a walking sponge sopping up impressions till he's saturated then going to his desk and squeezing them out on paper.