Traffic.com Helps Drivers Avoid Thanksgiving Weekend Traffic
AAA reports on travel news that over 31 million people traveled by car over the 2007 Thanksgiving weekend, with more expected this year. While the holidays are a great time to see friends and family, they can be a challenging time todrive. Five of the ten travel days of the year with the most accidents are right around Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s. Traffic.com offers driving tips for the holiday season.
Get a good night’s sleep before your trip (at least 8 hours).Drive long trips with a passenger who stays awake to talk to the driver.Schedule regular stops, every 100 miles or two hours.Avoid alcohol and medications that may impair performance.If you are feeling drowsy, pull off into a safe area and take a brief nap.Walk around or do a few exercises to get rid of grogginess.Rely on Traffic.com for the most up-to-date traffic information
Avoid The Airplane Cold
There are many germs up there on planes that passengers can catch. Last year after a flight to Europe when I came back I ended up at the doctors office with a weird virus I never encountered before.
According to Ed Hewitt From MSNBC.com,“a recent study says you may be more than 100 times as likely to catch a cold on a plane as in your normal daily rounds, according to a study publishing in the Journal of Environmental Health Research:” Possible culprits could be low humidity, cramped quarters, sharing the same air with other passengers.