To a certain degree, successful travel is about luck.
One train departs, the next one doesn’t because a tree has fallen across the tracks or there is an accident in the tunnel between you and your destination. Which one are you on?
One vacation starts on time, another doesn’t because an approaching storm delays flights. Which is yours?
A hurricane weakens and/or changes paths and the beach trip you feared would be miserable turns into a glorious holiday at the shore. Good luck.
You plan to have a fabulous sounding multi-course meal at your destination and miss it because of a cultural misunderstanding of what day it was. Not so good luck.
Be thankful for the good travel days; and don’t fret too much about the not so good ones. They may be annoying or truly troublesome, but sometimes they make pretty good stories.