Road trips are the only time the scenery changes every minute. Look out the window before it all turns into highway.

Motion is one of the few reliable cures for not looking. On a long drive the view refuses to hold still, so your eyes have to keep working, and for a while you are properly awake to where you are. Then the novelty wears down, the road starts to look the same, and the phone comes out. The scenery did not get worse; your attention got tired.

On the next trip, take the first hour with your head up and no screen. Pick one thing out the window to describe to whoever is driving. Attention comes back faster when you have to put it into words.