Drive night Sleep day Boondocking
This Sunday my DW and I took our TC over to Little River Canyon in Alabama for the day (need to run the truck every now and then). Anyways, this area is part of the National Park system, but it is a ...
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I prefer to drive at night. When we first moved from NJ to GA, we preferred to drive through the night to go back to NJ to visit family. We'd leave around 8 or 9 pm and get there around 7 or 8 am. Which was great, except we were exhausted when we got there. I have a really hard time sleeping when it is day time.
We adjusted our schedule and now usually leave at 3 am. Getting a few hours sleep and then heading out around 3 am makes a huge difference for me. It takes a little longer to get there because we are driving during the day more, but we aren't exhausted when we get there. We do generally go to bed earlier that first night.
It works pretty well for the kids too since they generally fall right back to sleep after the initial wake up at 2:45. When they were little and we could easily lift them, we didn't even have to wake them.
Since I am not normally awake during the overnight hours, it can be hard to make that switch short term.
-Michael
We adjusted our schedule and now usually leave at 3 am. Getting a few hours sleep and then heading out around 3 am makes a huge difference for me. It takes a little longer to get there because we are driving during the day more, but we aren't exhausted when we get there. We do generally go to bed earlier that first night.
It works pretty well for the kids too since they generally fall right back to sleep after the initial wake up at 2:45. When they were little and we could easily lift them, we didn't even have to wake them.
Since I am not normally awake during the overnight hours, it can be hard to make that switch short term.
-Michael
