This last week was the longest drive I’ve ever done alone. To be honest, when I was planning the trip, I had a number of brothers interested and wanting to go. However, as is often the case, one by one they all started dropping out. But, in a way, I’m glad they did because Alhamdulilah it was a good experience with many lessons learnt.
So, I just wanted to share some of my tips and advice for doing long distance travels/drives alone:
- Check your tyres and check the spare tyre. One of my tyres punctured, I changed to the spare tyre and what do you know, the spare was already punctured too lol Alhamdulilah I was in a city and getting tyres replaced wasn’t a big issue.
- Split your journey up. Apart from the return trip, I ensured that I stopped every 3 hours to get some rest and explore an area.
- Try to get good sleep at night. I tried to sleep around 6 hours each night. I woke up refreshed and didn’t feel tired the whole day.
- Have a very light breakfast. The more you eat, for some weird reason, the more tired you become.
- Skip lunch. Worked wonders for me.
- Drink lots and lots of water.
- Have companions in the form of some awesome Quran recitation, beautiful reminders and maybe some nasheeds
- Make sure you have all the essentials: Phone, gps, phone charger, etc.
Most of all: enjoy every second of it smile emoticon
Some benefits of traveling alone:
- Time for contemplation - you're not rushed. You have plenty of time to yourself to contemplate, ponder over what you see and sometimes, show your emotions.
- Go where you want and not where others want you to go
- Time for learning and revision. Long distances are awesome for learning something via audio
- In your own time! No waiting for others no arguments on how long to spend in a place etc smile emoticon
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