You checked every box on the trip itinerary and don’t remember feeling a single place.

A packed schedule can be a very efficient way of missing everywhere you went. When the next stop is always two hours away, attention stays on logistics, and every location becomes a thing to have completed rather than a place you stood in. The record afterwards is complete and the experience is missing.

Leave one thing off the next plan and use the hole for nothing. Sit somewhere for an hour with no target. Talk to somebody, eat slowly, get slightly lost. The bit you will describe to people in five years will almost certainly come from that hour rather than from the list.