Cooks Gardens

While travelling to Sheridan WY can be exciting and fun, getting to your destination might get intensely uninteresting, especially if you are travelling a long distance and do not actually have much to do.

1. When on a trip, carry enough CD's so you do not get bored of listening to the same music time after time. If it is a really long trip, even carry audio stories. It will keep you occupied.

2. Travelling with youngsters means you have to have tons of tricks up your sleeve and must be in a position to entertain your child every time (may be every minute or 2) they lose interest. Word games are a way to entertain yourself. If nothing works and you have used up every game and every CD and every story you had, add up the number of trucks you see on the road until your child nods off. Another trick we used to use on long road trips was give them presents they could open every hour each new present keeps them occupied until it is time for the subsequent little present.

3. Airports aren't just places to get off and on planes anymore. They're traveller destinations by themselves. Millions are spent to modernise airfields to entertain visitors, and keep us from whining nonstop. Walk around the airfield, visit the shops, explore the rest rooms, compare this new airport with the airfield in your city/town. Take a note of why this one is better. Believe me, you'll be on the flight before you know it.

4. For the work obsessed, here's one more chance for you to get some work done, like you do. Tug out your portable computer, stare into it gravely and type away. Or look at some spreadsheets, nothing like it. Plan another schedule for your staff; think of a new promotional strategy. The airfield has inspiration all around.

5. Read. Carry a story book with you. Make sure you don't start reading it till you have run right out of things worth doing. You might carry an uninteresting book- then it will put you to sleep and you don't have to fret about how to spend your time anymore. Or you might take a book that you would basically enjoy, finish it, and then think about something else to do.

6. Take a sketchbook and a pencil. Draw everything you see. Or write down what is happening around you. You just might discover the concealed artist, or the writer in you, which had been waiting for such a break all his life.

7. Make lists. Make lists of your dislikes, of what you want and do not want; lists of your dreams and hopes, of the places you want to visit. You may finally find yourself.

Fortunately airlines are making great steps in keeping passengers occupied for the long run flights, but road, bus and train trips can still be laden with boredom. Use the tips above to stop you catching cabin fever!