Yesterday was not great!! We had to go to my daughters wedding tasting, but the journey by car is over 100 miles away and I am do not deal well with car travel. I prefer train, but that is getting more and more expensive, and the place you need to get to is no where near a train station! I am confident in my husbands ability to drive these long journeys, but as time has gone on my anxiety for long journeys has got worse. We drove up in daylight and whilst the traffic was fairly busy I managed to cope with my anxiety reasonably well for most of the journey but it started to get worse the nearer we got to the town near the venue, but the place was the other side of town. I felt much happier once we found the place and parked up. We arrived at 4.30pm, and other family members arrived after us. The evening itself was good, and we stayed for an evening meal after the tasting.
We left just before 8pm, it was very dark at that time and the roads we travelled on had no street lighting. We started our long journey back, however, the journey for me was really bad, as it was dark, my eyesight is getting worse, and I did not have my driving glasses, (I was a passenger), to me the cars travelling in front of us were blurry. It is a fast road with 2-3 lanes just like our motorways. We were traveling at the maximum allowed speed changing lanes when we needed too, and passing lorries (trucks) which makes me nervous. I felt a bit like I was on a roller coaster, with strange glasses on.....it was very stressful for me, I could feel the anxiety getting worse, my heart feeling tight and being a long journey I just wanted this roller coaster to stop so I could get off and calm down! I did breathing exercises to help, but the stress was overwhelming. As we got nearer to home after an hour of the nightmare journey I asked hubby if we could get off this road and go around the back streets, as they are well light and we are not travelling as fast or changing lanes on the back streets, he agreed, and I was able to start calming down, and the stress reducing as we continued our journey home. It's the worst journey I have ever been on.....and I have been on many other long journeys over the years. The daytime being manageable for the most part. On previous long journeys we have mostly set off home at 10am so by the time we get home it has still been light! The last time we went away to York I convinced hubby to go by train and even though there were some annoying people not wearing masks on the way back, It did not affect my anxiety! I was so much happier travelling by train, it's so frustrating that the cost of doing so is far too expensive for long journeys.
Does anyone else get anxious travelling? Train, plane, boat or car?
Apologies for long story!!