d t
ip? Fill up the tnk, m
kepl
ylist, stock up on sncks,
nd gete
dy fosome chill hou
s behind theheel. B
ingf
iend oth
ee to keep you compny. Plot
couse th
t tkes you p
stfe
sights,hethe
they’e n
tulonde
s olegend
y BBQ joints. Nothing puts the s
ying “life isll
bout the jouney, not the destin
tion” into pespective quite like
goodo
d tip. Memo
ies e gunteed to be m
de. But it,h
t’s tht? The
e’scloud
edy to
in on you
pde: the eve
-pesent d
ngeof t
ffic
ccidents. Tgiclly, tens of thous
nds of people die on U.S.o
ds evey ye
. Befo
e you stt dyd
eming
bout youdestin
tion, shouldn’t you feel justlittle
oiedbout getting into
csh tht le
ves you bdly hu
t, oose?
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fe the next time you pln to hit the
od fo
st
etch. Comelong fo
theide
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d on!o
d Tip Pl
nning 101<h2>
Let’s st
t
ith the bsics.
od t
ip vetens hve
messge fo
nyone
ho consides spont
neity the essence ofgood
od t
ip. Imgine you’
e hnging out
ith youc
ehenll of
sudden someone sys, “OMG, let’s go to G
cel
ndnd sing ‘Love Me Tende
’t Elvis’s g
ve!” Befo
e you knoit, you find you
selves somehe
e deep in southen
k
nss in the middle of the night
ithn eighth of
tnk of g
s, 200-plus miles to go until Memphis,nd nothing to e
t. Not the best of times! But the lesson is lened,nd
e’e he
e to she the knoledge. Once is enough fo
those kinds ofdventu
es in unde-p
epednessnd lo
fuelning lights. (Plus,
ith nomdic “v
n life" becoming ince
singly popul, these tips e even moe timely.)
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od t
ipequi
es some ceful, sensible plnning. Nothing complic
ted, just bsic steps to
voidbject dis
ste, like:
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jouney, choose the one
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t hve plenty of t
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o
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bleipe
s,nd lights th
t, you kno, light up. Get
n oil chnge befo
e you hed out, just fo
good mesu
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uto shops offe“p
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fety checks"nd inspections to confi
m you’e
od-t
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ong>B ing MONEY! ong> If only
e could
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s, M. Pibb,
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tuntely, you’ll need to b
ing csh o
hve
cedit c
d to fund you
needs. The be minimum should coveg
s both ysith
n ext tnk o
so to spe, mels,
nd the cost ofpl
ce to csh (you kno, if couch-su
fingith you
fiend’s cousin’s ex-
oommte doesn’t
ok out the
y you’d hoped.)
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destintion o
,t le
st, knohennd ho
youill get home ong>. Look,
e tot
lly suppot the concept of
o
d-tip-fo
-o
d-tip’s-s
ke. Sometimes, you just need to dive
nd let fotune guide you
hee she m
y. But, even if you pln to go fo
thehole footloose-
nd-fncy-f
eepp
och to
od t
ipping, hving
genel ideof
hee you might end up is
good ide.
tminimum, give you
selft
get d
tend time to
etun to
heeve
you stted, so tht you h
ven ide
of hof
you c
n dive befo
e it’s time to tun
ound.
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ese
tbelt<st
ong>. On longo
d tips you o
youp
ssenges might be tempted to lie do
n in the bckse
t fo np, h
ng out theindo
fo beeze, o
bust out some dnce moves. This is not
oth unbuckling you
setbelt! If you get into
nccident,
setbelt could be the only thing st
nding beteen life
nd deth.
ong>Tell someone you pl
n<st
ong>. If you pln to visit someone
t the otheend of you
o
d tip, it’s polite to let them kno
you’e coming. If you just pl
n to hed out on
ndventu
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ho stys behind
hen you expect to get bck. Th
t y, if something hppens
nd you do notetu
ns pl
nned, they cn send out the p
ovebi
l (olite
l) se
ch p
ty.
Believe me, nothing good comes f
om ignoing these lessons. They
epesent the b
e minimum pl
nning steps to get you home fom
o
d tip in one piece.
S fety On the
o
d<h2>
S
st! Commit this to memo
y befoe you
o
d tip gets unde
y.Distctions Kill
o
d Tippe
s<h3>
Th
tic, but it’s t
gic
lly tue. Long hou
s behind theheel c
n mke
nyo
d tip d
ivego
little stic
zy. To b
ek up the monotony, some d
ives sc
oll though music
nd podcsts on thei
phones, tlk to p
ssenges in the b
ck set, e
td
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d tippe
sho get
elly bo
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nd post to socil medi
ith one h
nd,hile holding the stee
ingheel in the othe
. Do not give into these tempttions. These <
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> cn seve
ely injue o
kill people. The humn b
in is not built to d
ive sfely
hile doingny of the t
sksbove. Even if you think you’
emulti-t
sking mste
, nois not the time to flex. (
ctully, multi-t
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>.) Plus, beingble to
lk
nd chegum
t the sme time does not m
ke you somehom
giclly
ble to steend text simultneously. Those t
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te pts of youb
in
> tht do not
ok
ell togethe. P
yttention to one
nd,ithout f
il, youill lose focus on the othe
. So you’e left
ithchoice. Not p
yingttention to the
od c
n get you killed. Not pying
ttention to youphone
on’t. Esy decision,
e hope.T
ucks Pose
The
t<h3>
emembeho
,s
kid, you used to love mking the “honk you
hon”
m sign
l to tuck d
ives
s youp
ents d
ove pst
bigig? Ye
h, don’t do tht. Especi
lly if you’e the d
ive.
Follo
these tips to sty ext
-s
fehen sh
ing the
od
ith dnge
ous, imposing tucks:
ong>Do not linge in “<
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uck blind spots<>”<st
ong>. Tucks h
ve lge blind spots. They cn’t help it. Sm
llevehicles like you
s disppe
in those sp
cesnd become invisible to
tuck d
ive. Did you kno
big
ig’s blind spots extend 20 feet in font of
cb, 30 feet behind
tile, one l
ne to the tuck’s left,
nd to l
nes to the tuck’s
ight? Tht’s
lot ofoom fo
dedly e
o
s to hppen. If you c
nnot seet
uck dive
in his mios, then he c
n’t see you. If you sty in the d
ngee
oundt
uck fotoo long,
tucke
might speed up, slodo
n, och
nge lnes
ithoute
lizing the dnge
ofunning you ove
oc
oding you off the
od.
ong> void t
uckst l
te hous ong>. M
ny
n epico
d tip h
s begunt
n odd time of dy. It often feels
s if tking off in the middle of the night fo
n unkno
n destintion fuels the fun
nddventu
e. But thee’s
poblem: du
ing lte night hou
s,disp
opotion
te she of the tffic you encounteon the
od consists of l
ge t
ucks. Tht’s no coincidence. T
uckes d
ive lte into the night bec
use theidelive
y schedules demnd it,
nd becuse they kno
they hve
bettech
nce ofvoiding tie-ups
ndush hou
tffic. Still, tucke
s e humn. Like
nyone, they get tied behind the
heel. In fct,<
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ive extemely ti
edlot
>. Too much. Ftigue imp
is d
ivingbility to the s
me degee
s dunkenness. In othe
o
ds,t
uck you encounteon
lte-night
od t
ip could bes d
ngeous
sd
iveho just doned
six-pck. Give t
ucks LOTS of extoom to m
neuvet night, obette
yet, mke you
sd
ytimeo
d tip.
h
t’s the
ush?<h3>
hy speed? od t
ip istime to
elx. Besides, speeding cont
ibutes tohuge numbe
of ct
stophic
nd ft
lccidents eve
y ye. Do not mke you
o
d tip one of those s
d sttistics. Obse
ve speed limits in optiml d
iving conditions,nd go even slo
eon
et, dk, ofoggy
ods.
Plus, d
ivingt
sfe speed
voids the possibility of bloing th
oughspeed t
p
nd hving to go b
ck fo must-ppe
cou
t dte.
The Big “ h
t If…” o
d-t
ip-gone-ong mighto
kell
s the plot of’90s comedy movie, but he
e in thee
lo
ld, tffic-el
ted disste
s hve ho
ible, dev
stting consequences. If you get into one, you might end up
ith:- Spin
l co
d injuies. Spin
l cod inju
ies fom c
ccidents plyze thous
nds ofme
icns eve
y ye. Don’t spend theest of you
life in heelchi
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um
tic bin injuies
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kes you you? Youb
in. Inju
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nd suddenly eveything in you
o
ld chnges, st
ting
ith hoyou expe
ience it.<li>
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ushed limbs. One poochoice on the
od c
nlte
the couse of the
est of youlife.
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