If you are flying on vacation, make a list of all the places you want to visit, including secondary ones. Study the map and plan a route at least to the hotel. Download the necessary applications and articles to your phone in advance.
If you are going to another country, learn the basic language phrases and etiquette rules. On a business trip, it is always important to prepare a speech better, sort through the documents. And you can also make a list of people to whom you want to bring gifts and souvenirs.
One of the most popular activities for the road. When else will you have time to read the works of classics that you didn't get your hands on?
It is most convenient to bring a reader with you. It weighs little, does not strain the eyes much and can accommodate a lot of works. But you can also take a paper book if your luggage is not too heavy. Also, many magazines are sold at airports and train stations — not only entertainment, but also highly specialized (for programmers, photographers, motorists).
Another great option is audiobooks and radio plays. Make sure in advance that the speaker's voice does not annoy you.
Make up and adjust your plans for the future, summarize the achievements of the last month, throw in lists of necessary things and purchases. Write a post on a social network or a note in your personal diary about your expectations from the trip. Or about the impressions you have already received, if you return.
Drawing on an airplane is not very convenient, and it distracts the attention of neighbors, but for an airport or train this activity is just right. You will need pencils or pens, a sharpener and paper. If you have never drawn before, print out or download the training diagrams for drawing in advance.
Nothing distracts you on the road, you are not in a hurry. Even long-familiar compositions can open up in a new way. Download for yourself tracks of new trends and artists, including those that don't seem to be close to you. You can discover the whole world.
Everyone remembers the city game. There is an analog close to it: everyone takes turns naming words for a given letter or syllable. Another fun game is to choose any item, and then come up with how you can use it for other purposes.
If you are traveling in a company, then the list of games is simply huge for you. You can take hiking chess and checkers, go, cards with you on the train.
If you are traveling alone, then games on your smartphone will help you out. And you can also buy crosswords and puzzles, for example a Rubik's cube.
Before the trip, download a few movies to your gadget. If you are traveling together, take a headphone splitter. Take care of charging, because sockets, like Wi-Fi, are not in all planes and trains.
Take advantage of the great opportunity to clean up all the archives and organize your desktop. Delete unnecessary folders, files, videos and music albums, organize and sign what you need.
Everything that didn't work out and got smeared, immediately delete, and some things can be processed and published in social networks.
A long trip is a good reason to improve your language skills or learn something new in your professional field. Students often take textbooks with them and prepare for exams right on the road. But then they will have more free time.
Take the necessary documentation with you and complete some upcoming tasks in advance. Write business letters. Freelancers generally work very often on trains or commuter trains, it saves a lot of time.
If you are bored, start a conversation with a passenger you like. On trips, you can meet very interesting and useful people, and sometimes even your soulmate. Ask the interlocutor where he is going, how many times he has already been there. So you can find out interesting details about the country you are going to.
Thanks to new impressions, thoughts flow differently on the road. Listen to yourself: what emotions you have inside, if there are any new ideas, insights. Traveling, including the road, always helps to better understand yourself and rethink a lot.
Look at how people are dressed around, how they behave, what nationalities they are. Play detective and imagine what they could do in their lives, what to think about. Such a simple lesson will help you develop observation and a more subtle understanding of people.
On the road, you can knit, cross-stitch, weave bracelets and macrame. For a long train ride, you can knit a pair of socks or a hat.
It's time to find out how relatives or friends are doing who you've been wanting to call for a long time, but haven't found the time. You can also chat with friends in social networks.
For convenience, you can use a sleep mask, earplugs and a pillow-roller under your neck. With these "devices" your sleep will be both pleasant and useful. The main thing is not to oversleep your station.
If you are traveling as a passenger, then some of the tips from the previous paragraphs will suit you. But there are also special things that are more appropriate to do in the car, where outsiders do not see you.
If you are traveling with family, partner or friends, use the opportunity to get to know each other better. Discuss your plans, dreams, and life beliefs. Even in the closest person there is always a lot of new things that can be discovered.
Pay attention to various details of nature, passing cars, local people and their clothes.
Or take pictures. There are plenty of funny and unusual names in Russia.
This can be done both with the driver and with the children. This activity develops memory and improves mood.
You can learn a rhyme or a song, compose a fairy tale together, repeat tongue twisters. For long trips it is better for children to buy new toys so that they are not so bored.
Even the time spent in traffic can be used effectively. Try these methods.
This is a simple and quite effective psychological method to raise your self-esteem and mood. Not all affirmations work well, some can be annoying. Find the ones you like, for example: "Today will be great" or "Any obstacles are part of my goal."
If you know that you will be stuck in traffic, stock up in advance healthy food : fruits, breads, vegetables. And, of course, there should always be water in your car.
This is a tip for women standing in completely deaf traffic jams. And you can also do your hair or clean your shoes.
Even sitting down, you can stretch individual parts of the body. Do exercises for the eyes, neck, arms, abs or buttocks.
We are talking about special anti-stress toys that can be crushed and twisted. Buy one for yourself in the car.
Surely there is a lot of excess accumulated there.
Instead of flipping through social networks once again, you can order a ticket to the theater or schedule a visit to the exhibition.
