There’s quite a reliable way to make a long road trip seem much shorter.
Until I was about 11, the longest drive I’d been on was about 4 hours.
When we were children, that seemed like the longest trip in the world — an eternity of tarmac and boiled candy and I Spy.
But every year, that trip got slightly shorter.
It wasn’t that we drove faster or knew a better route, although all those benefits of experience played their part.
It was because we had travelled the road before, so there were fewer new things to notice about it.
That’s why the trip home always seems shorter.
If you want to make a long, hard journey fast and easy, do it a thousand times.