Temporary Duty Travel Tips Informative Links Airplane Travel Highway Travel   Read our suggestions for stretching your time off, whether you want to escape for a weekend or experience the local community. Plan ahead. One way to organize your time off is know your schedule and try to plan for some off time.   Make a long weekend even longer by taking an extra day or two off. If Monday is already an official holiday, why not skip Friday and make it a four-day weekend?   Leave early for your TDY. If you’re driving to your destination, leaving early on a Friday afternoon (or Thursday night if you're off Friday) can help you beat the traffic, and give you essentially an extra day away.   Take a red-eye (overnight) flight and come back to work on Monday morning. This way, you can spend most of your last day on TDY enjoying yourself rather than waiting in an airport.   Use successive weekends to turn five days off into a nine-day trips. Include the two weekends on either end of a Monday through Friday vacation and you'll almost double your time off.   Save up your time off for your TDY.