When our kids were small we did all of our driving at night while they slept and spent the day enjoying wherever we were. Both DW and I share the driving so we both still got a decent amount of sleep and worked in naps poolside, at the park.... Whatever. Now that we are empty nesters in our fifties we we drove during the night only to get through major cities and high traffic areas avoiding the "rush hours". We can zip through from 10:pm to 5:am what would take hours of bumper to bumper traffic during the weekdays.