Danielle RalstonFounder, How Capacity Works · Founder of ND Hive | Building the productivity hub where work actually gets done | Execution spaces, body doubling & community accountability

What does getting ready for a road trip look like for you with adhd? #adhdcoach #ndhive

8 Apr 2026 · 1 min

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Danielle Ralston packs for a 2,000-mile road trip from Alabama to New York while managing ADHD. She describes the chaos: multiple rounds of packing, last-minute omissions like makeup, and the certainty she'll forget something once she arrives. Her husband teases her about readiness, and she stops to visit Miss Tara Neighbors for dinner along the way.

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So if you're ADHD and you've ever done a road trip, so we're doing one right now. 1,000 miles one way. So 2,000 miles in the next like 4 or 5 days. And I had to pack. I had to get everything ready business-wise and make sure I assigned stuff to my team. And then I had to repack, 'cause packing the first time, of course, I always forget things. And then there's all the last-minute things. And my husband was picking on me this morning because I had everything ready. Except for not everything because I can't pack my makeup and I can't pack my hair stuff. And well, I had my computer out because I always have to do stuff with that. So of course it takes me an hour to get ready, but I had everything ready. And of course I know as soon as I get to my destination there is something I will have forgotten because there's always something you forget. If this sounds like you when you're getting ready for a road trip or on a road trip, let me know. Follow along. We'll be traveling from Alabama, central Alabama, to West New York here today. We're doing the drive in one day. We're gonna stop and see Miss Tara Neighbors and have some dinner with her, and then we're gonna drive the rest of the way to New York. So if you want to follow along and see what's going on, follow along.