Unless you are driving, you dont do anything but sleep, eat and watch movies and we still get so tired.
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As someone who has personally spent 10’s of thousands of hours on the highway, here’s my take.
It’s a lot of ‘mental’ work to travel.
Eyes on the lines, other cars, looking for animals, corners for bicycles, kids, stupid people, random shit in the road, cops, bad weather, shitty traffic, it all adds to the mental load. Not to mention havin to be aware of your position, Mile marker and exit numbers for your turn offs. It adds up fast.
After a while, fatigue sets in just from being hyper aware of your surroundings for an extended period.
It’s extremely important to remained as relaxed and chill as possible when driving long distance, the stress agitates the exhaustion.
As a flight attendant, I do feel like it’s a bit annoying when passengers complain to me how tired they are from the long flight when they just sat in the seats and ordered a million things from us haha. Like yeah, I’m the one who ran up and down the cabin the entire time and to your seat for all the requests.
Seriously though, I think it’s tiring because a)it’s stressful and expensive to a lot of people b) it’s something that you may not be used to doing very often and may be more physical activity than some are used to c) it’s hard to rest/sleep well on an airplane if you aren’t in first class d) it’s overwhelming- unless you are staying at an airport hotel, now you have to begin a possibly unknown journey of getting somewhere else and checking into a hotel/accommodation and that’s daunting after a long travel day e) it’s a means to the place you want to be and not the actual place you want to be so it feels like a chore to get to where you want to be
For me it’s the stress/excitement wearing off once I land. Or sometimes jet lag since I usually fly usa to uk
Because of all the stress surrounding the trip. You think constantly on what you might have forgotten at home, when is the taxi getting here, is the flight on time. Going through security etc etc.
When I traveled regularly for work it was all in all a relaxing experience.
When your sat around for a long time your body takes in less oxygen which results in lower energy levels.
I think eating is just to do with boredom and a psychological effect to wake you up
I don’t subscribe to this theory, as if you place me in a plane I will fall asleep during take-off and sleep all flight with music on my ears, then wake up fresh in another country.
You’re not really relaxing your body and muscles fully in a moving vehicle. Your body is constantly adjusting to maintain balance and in my experience, also is a bit tensed up. But it’s hard to notice when you’re in motion. I first noticed it when on a long distance bus and when we were in stop and go traffic. My legs would involuntarily tense up almost imperceptibly each time we’d move again and relax fully each time we stopped. It all made sense suddenly.
As for planes, I’d say it’s because the inside of a plane is designed to be as barely comfortable as possible without killing you.
It’s stressful, and you can’t get into a comfortable position so your body gets achy and fatigued from trying to hold an unnatural and awkward posture for hours.
I don’t normally sleep well the night prior to the trip, so I’m usually more tired than normal starting the trip.
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