How do you stay awake (long drive)?

[Kalidurga]

I used to suck on fireball jawbreakers. Depending on the drive, though, you could go through quite a few of them, and that's a lotta sugar on the teeth. I've since switched to sugarless bubblegum. Blowing and popping bubbles definitely will definitely help to keep you alert, especially if you pop the bubbles real loud

[Grog]

I don't do long drives much, but I actually will alternate between cruise control and not most of the time. When I'm on cruise control I "dance" to the music and wiggle my feet around a lot (works better in some cars than others!!) and that definitely keeps me awake (and avoids putting my legs to sleep, and saves on gas). Then I'll get bored for a while and turn off the cruise control a bit.

Once I had two more hours to drive and the sun was going down and I was not feeling my best, I had a Red Bull drink (heavily caffeinated but interesting taste), a roll of gummy Sweetarts (happiness!) and cranked up the disco music. Boy those were two happy hours!!!

[mimitabby]

Every hour or so I get out of the car and jump up and down. When my kids were little, we played tag.

otherwise (clunk) I fall asleep!

[Nanci]

Eat munchies. Listen to Podcasts or books on CD.