My first, long roadtrip, alone..tips?

It would be good to do this in two days since this is the first time you will do this trip. Pick some place in the middle and get a motel there. It does help to stop overnight. That road hum will get to you.

If you must do this in one trip, then do the difficult part first. That is, do the night driving first. Be sure that you get gas during the night at major stops, even if you have to make extra stops. Until you do this trip, you cannot be certain of 24 hour availability of gas for the trip. It is likely to be available, though, so don't worry too much.

While soft drinks in the car sounds great, you will feel better overall if you drink few or no soft drinks for this trip. Stop for meals at the usual hours, too.

Even though you know how long it will take, figure on getting 50 miles per hour on average. That means a 1000 mile trip would take you 20 hours of continuous driving. You do have to stop and the car has to stop. That's the reason for the decrease in MPH. I had found, through years of long distance driving, that speeding didn't help that much since I had to stop at times, and the car had to stop at times.

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My first, long roadtrip, alone..tips?

Here soon (a week) I will be leaving from Indiana to go down to Florida. It's about a 14 hour drive. I got my license 10 months ago, so needless to say, I haven't been on this long of a road trip. I'm driving a 2002 Ford Crown Victoria ( the car I'm most comfortable with ). I'm...

If it's your first trip, don't drive more than 3 or 4 hours without stopping and taking a break. Lunch, gas, john, whatever. Walk around for a few minutes to refresh yourself. Keep the radio or CDs going and sing loud whenever you feel like it. (I love taking long, long car trips alone. I usually like it SILENT, but I think you'll probably prefer sounds.)

Plan on spending a night in a motel en route. Don't try to drive 14 hours without sleep. Check out google maps or mapquest to find a place about half-way. Then search for motels in that location.

You can try to pull it off in one trip but if it is your first long road trip I wouldn't advise going longer than 8 hours straight. To avoid fatigue try not to have a sleepy atmosphere in the car (talk radio, heat on with windows closed). I usually have the windows open at least in the back so fresh air is always coming in to keep me alert. It is very easy to get tired and start drifting and losing focus so be careful. Other than that just try and come up with things that interest you to make the time go by faster. I always listen to a playlist I made specifically for that trip or a basketball\baseball\football game for a team I like on the radio.

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Halee, on long trips, I stop and freshen up like every couple of ours, I have hard candy in the car to suck on and also water.

Make sure you keep to the speed limits. If I get the slightest of signs of fatigue, tiredness, I pull into the next service center, or stop along the way and have a bit of a shut eye. When I start off from home, my wife always has a flask of coffee, and a whole crap load of her cupcakes.

I do Montreal to Florida, at least every couple of years, and I am no spring chicken like you.

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Have you looked into flights?

Driving will probably cost you $400, add on a 2 nights in a hotel, the extra food for 4 days driving...

Most likely for one person, flying is cheaper and WAY easier.

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