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4 Tips for Surviving a Long Road Trip with Your Friends

Road trips with friends offer a chance to get away from the house and explore a new, exciting area. But, a road trip can also be a disaster when you’re enclosed in tight quarters with the same people for prolonged periods. There are plenty of ways you can prepare before and during your trip to ensure you are ready for the trip. Visit a transmission shop to get your car in top shape to prevent a vehicle disaster. Then, rather than deal with a disaster, you’ll be focused on surviving a long road trip with your friends.

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4 important tips for surviving a long road trip with your beloved friends

Beyond preparing your car, use the four tips below to survive the road trip with your sanity intact.

Share Driving Responsibilities

Take turns driving to reduce pressure from one person. Even people who enjoy driving need a break to stretch their legs and focus attention elsewhere for a short period. Don’t break any laws to share driving responsibilities, of course, but if you’re both legal drivers, you’ll fare much better when you take turns. Determine the driving schedule ahead of departure to reduce stress.

Turn up the Music

Music is an important component of any road trip. Music gets you pumped up for a great time and reduced boredom as you tread the miles. Turn up your favorite jams loud and play them proud. If you all enjoy the same music, you are in luck here. Otherwise, you can still compromise and ensure that everyone gets their music kicks while on the road trip. Decide on a play pattern, whether one person gets the tunes for an hour and vice versa or you choose another type of scheme. It’s only fair and it keeps everyone in the car happy.

Do You

It is important to have activities separate from one another during a road trip. You need time apart to miss one another and to continue valuing one another. Besides, there is probably a lot of things that you want to do that your friends do not and vice versa. Agree on a location to meet back up and enjoy your road trip.

Share the Road Trip Costs

There is no animosity if the costs of the trip are shared equally amongst each person in the car. This includes costs for fuel, hotels, parking, entrance fees, food, etc. Things get pretty antsy if one person feels they’re paying for the bulk of the costs of the trip. It’s far too easy to avoid this stressor by equally sharing costs.

Author bio: Emma is a freelance writer based out of Boston, MA. She writes most often on health and education. When not writing, she enjoys reading and watching film noir. Say hi on Twitter @EmmaSturgis2

By | 2019-09-17T10:27:30-04:00 October 2, 2019|Travel|Comments Off on 4 Tips for Surviving a Long Road Trip with Your Friends