One thing I always do before going on vacation is to worry myself senseless about various silly things. It struck me today I wasn't the only one worrying and I started wondering whether this is something people feel like they have to do to cap their excitement? The Web is full of travel material, but what you should stress about before going to different places is never covered. So to help other people that are planning on traveling to the Caribbean, I thought I should compile a checklist of some good but useless things to worry about.

* Worry about sharks attacking you. If it feels unreal I recommend watching Into the Blue which apparently is filmed somewhere in the Caribbean or maybe Jaws.

* Read a book by a local author that isn't particularly fond of their home country. For Antigua I recommend A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid. That gives you scary information about how the locals will despise you, enlightens you about where the stuff you flush down the toilet goes, highlights the shortcomings of the local hospitals, and even mentions something about feeding tourists with broken glass...

* Start focusing on the weather. Keep checking the weather and extensively discuss with your travel partner every time the temperature is under the average, it rains, or when it is cloudy. You know you are successful when you start dreaming about minus degrees and wake up whimpering about it.

* If you have to transit between two airports, use it for all its worth. Expect that you get the baggage late, that you cannot find the bus, that nobody speaks English to help you, that you have just missed the bus when you find it, that there is a traffic jam between the airports, and that you of course will miss the flight. Worry that the later flight that day is overbooked or that the airline tries to blame you for being late and forces you to buy a new flight at very steep prices.

* Worry that the hotel has lost your booking and that you have to pay a fortune for a new place to stay at.

* Worry that the local Caribbean airline you plan on flying with goes bankrupt when you read that they are having problems with striking workers and costs.

* Worry so much that you will get sick right before leaving that you actually start developing a sore throat for no apparent reason...

* Start worrying about snakes and other scary creatures. Do some research and you might find out that you are going to one of total of four Caribbean islands with poisonous snakes.

* And the most important thing to worry about is of course that you have been looking forward to the vacation for so long that it will never live up to your expectations....

Feel free to offer hints for more stuff to worry about. I still have few hours left :) .