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!!!
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10-28-2006, 09:00 AM #1
Northern Amazon
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10-28-2006, 09:10 AM #2
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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!
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10-28-2006, 09:30 AM #3
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Eat munchies. Listen to Podcasts or books on CD.
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