Keeping Yourself Awake When Taking A Road Trip

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Staying awake on long road trips can be difficult to accomplish, as the road tends to put your mind into a lulled state that makes you want to sleep, but when you are taking a long road trip by yourself, it can become even more difficult to stay awake; if you are going to be taking a long road trip of your own, make sure you follow these tips to know how to stay awake and effective!

Music is one of the best ways to keep yourself awake, but you should not just put a CD in and let it play; when the music you are listening to varies fairly consistently, it is much easier to stay awake.

Variation in temperature also helps to keep drivers awake on a long trip, and this will be easy to achieve by changing the settings in your car every so often, and by mixing in windows rolled down and windows rolled up.

Trying to keep your "required stops" as far apart from one another as you can will also help, which means you should take a bathroom break and pick up any food and drinks you will need every time you stop for gas, so that the gas stops are the only "necessities."

And one major mistake people make when taking a long road trip is that they try to "push through," which often leaves them in a place where they are so tired that they either have to stop for a long nap or - worse - they put their life and the lives of other drivers in danger; at least once between every required stop, you should stop at a rest stop (or a serene, relaxing place) to walk around for at least five minutes, stretching your legs and getting your blood flowing.

And finally, get yourself a hands-free device (even if you are not much of a phone-talker), as when you start getting tired on the road, one of the best things to resort to is a conversation with someone from home!