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By Tom Hnatiw
Contributing Writer

EVERY year our fami-
ly plans a long motor-
ig trip as a vacation.

There’s nothing lke the
personal freedom of your
own automobile to make
yetting to a destination as
exciting as arriving there.

However, many of us
who are used to driving for
just minutes at a time will
need to create a personal
paradigm shift to adapt to
driving for many hours in a
day.

It’s not only worth the
trouble te make your trip
more picasant, it’s worth the
trouble to keep you and
your family as safe as possi-

The open road requires
spectal care for at least two
reason

There are many people
on it who like you, may be
unused to driving long dis-
tanec) = among transport
trucks, recreational vehicles
and boats on trailers.

Traffic volume generally
builds around vacation time
and statistically speaking,
that increases everyone's
odds on being involved in an
incident.

Getting ready for a long
trip involves many lists of
things to do, things to pack,
phone numbers to call,
reservations to make, mes-
sages to leave, mail to redi-
rect and people to thank.

Here’s one more list that
you may find useful to pre-
pare mentally and: physically
for a trouble free, worry: free
vacations out on the open
road.

Fatigue is our greatest

my.

Not just fatigue, bur
sheer boredom, will put us
in real danger.

Staying alert is not some-
thing one can simply will
themselves to do.

You need to create the
conditions that will keep you
alert.

irst of all, choose the
most erect seating position
you can manage.

Physiologists have told us
that this is the best way to
combat fatigue.

The first places
likely to feel stiff are your
upper. back and neck and
your legs.

You can wrestle with this
by performing some simple
exercises.

Simpiy tense cach of the
muscles for five seconds or
so, then release.

Keep your cyes high.
Look as far down the road as
you can see, mentally
accounting for everything
which you may have to deal
with as you roll down the
road.

Keep your eyes moving.
Move y¥ yes from the
road, to the mirrors, sean
the instruments and then
back to the road ahead.

Al plan for a short
break every two hours as a
minimum,

Rotate drivers as often as
posstble,

If ar any time you feel
tired or notice one of those
mental lapses we all experi-
cnee from me to time find

* Plan pare 35