I’m going on a 8 hour drive in a 2012 equinox for the first time, longest drive before was 2 hours back when I was a newer driver.

The car does not have any smart phone type features like the newer cars, it will connect the phone for calls but that is it, there is a charging port but I’m guessing its usb2 so it won’t be all that fast and may not keep up with the phone, I have a battery bank and plenty of cables though, I won’t be stopping for those Bluetooth FM cigarette plug things because I’ll just being doing this the one time and it doesn’t seem useful enough to me.

I am very confident behind the wheel but just curious if anyone has any tips I haven’t thought about before.

I don’t think I’ll get very tired driving but I am known to get a slump of energy a couple hours after lunch but I don’t think I’ll eat a very big lunch so I may not have much of a slump.

I am driving this car back, I came here in a truck with another driver, something interesting I noticed between trucks vs small cars is that the taller trucks leave you less exhausted and so you can drive longer with an easier time because there is a perceived slower speed of things moving in and out past your field of vision.

Thankyou on advance!

  • BombOmOm@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 hours ago
    • Bring lots of audio entertainment pre-loaded on your phone or burnt to a CD (don’t rely on internet). Podcast, audiobook, w/e. Boredom is the mind killer.
    • Bring snacks that don’t leave your hands dirty.
    • Bring a sandwich, it’s much cheaper than buying one.
    • Bring a refrigerated and a frozen water bottle. The latter will still be cold for the second half of the trip.
    • When you stop to pee/get gas, make sure you walk around for a few minutes. Your legs get tired just sitting.
    • Both Google and Apple maps supports pre-downloading maps. This is very helpful if you need to set a route and you don’t have service where you happen to be.
    • OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml
      3·
      3 hours ago

      Organic maps is an option that’s not big corpo. Just saying. Works wonders! Also bring a power bank just in case, and a spare 100 dollar bill in case you get robbed or lose cards.