7 Ways to Beat Boredom on Your Travel

While travelling can be exciting and fun, getting to your destination might get extremely boring, especially if you are travelling a long distance and don’t really have much to do.

1. When on a road trip, carry enough CD’s so you don’t get bored of listening to the same music over and over. If it’s a really long trip, even carry audio stories. It will keep you occupied.

2. Travelling with kids means you need to have tons of tricks up your sleeve and need to be able to entertain your child every time (could be every few minutes) they get bored. Word games are a great way to entertain yourself.

If nothing works and you have exhausted every game and every CD and every story you had, count the number of trucks you see on the road till your child falls asleep. 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’s time for the next small present.

3. Airports aren’t just places to get on and off planes anymore. They are tourist destinations by themselves. Millions are spent to modernise airports to entertain travellers, and keep us from whining nonstop. Walk around the airport, visit the shops, explore the rest rooms, compare this new airport with the airport in your city/town. Make 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 yet another chance for you to get some work done, like you always do. Pull out your laptop, stare into it very seriously and type away. Or look at some spreadsheets, nothing like it. Plan another schedule for your employees; think of a new marketing strategy. The airport has inspiration all around.

5. Read. Carry a story book with you. Make sure you don’t start reading it till you have run out of things to do. You could carry a boring book- then it will put you to sleep and you don’t have to worry about how to spend your time anymore. Or you could take a book that you would actually enjoy, finish it, and then think of 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 hidden artist, or the writer in you, which had been waiting for such an opportunity all his life.

7. Make lists. Make lists of your likes and dislikes, of what you want and don’t want; lists of your hopes and dreams, of the places you want to visit. You might finally find yourself.

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