Road Warriors - how do you do it?

[NuclearNed]

For the last year I've been travelling a lot for work.

I'm finally past the "wheeee, travel is fun!" stage. I'm sick of hotels, restaurants, not seeing the wife & dog, not being home, etc.

Other than the usual (hookers, blow, strangling random strangers), what can I do to stay sane? Fists with the toes?

 

[Platypus]

I don't. It was fun when I was younger but that shit burns out super quick. You get tired of living out of a suitcase. Life is too short for that shit.

 

[highland145]

One of the reasons I left my last employer. Gone 2 weeks every month. Had a toddler at the time.

 

[corwin]

Meh...unless you're going to the same place all the time it's cool to see new places and things...if it's the same place all the time then yeah it would suck, I have one site I visit every other month and after a couple years I just sit in my hotel room, drink and watch movies...

 

[SandEagle]

i've got three 1,000+ mile trips lined up for the next 3 weeks. not looking forward to it

 

[NuclearNed]

Meh...unless you're going to the same place all the time it's cool to see new places and things...if it's the same place all the time then yeah it would suck, I have one site I visit every other month and after a couple years I just sit in my hotel room, drink and watch movies...

most of the time it's the same place. Right now, my evenings have devolved into Chik-fil-a and Netflix in bed.

 

[ky54]

I used to spend quite a bit of time on the road. It got a lot easier when I could get a laptop and the wife and I could play online games together. I can't tell you how much time she and I spent playing cribbage at MS games and just mindlessly chatting away. Before that I read a lot. I never succumbed to watching much TV so I read. If I were still doing I'd have a ereader crammed full of ebooks. I love those things.

 

[CrackRabbit]

Are you going to the same place over and over or different places each time?
If I can I try to get out and see something interesting wherever I'm at, or eat at some eclectic restaurant for a change of pace.

 

[M0oG0oGaiPan]

You could have a secret second family in another town.

 

[ky54]

Are you going to the same place over and over or different places each time?
If I can I try to get out and see something interesting wherever I'm at, or eat at some eclectic restaurant for a change of pace.

In my case it was the same 20-25 places all over the Northeast. At first it's cool but it gets old fairly quickly. After about 5 years it just becomes part of the job and you fall into a routine. To me I kept sane by keeping to a routine regardless of where I was. My biggest problem was sleeping because a lot of the places I had to go to the crews worked at different times all around the clock so one week I'm with a crew working days, the next week I'd be with a midnight crew, and so on and so on.