Exhaustion

In the doggy play area at the boarding facility

I picked up Grizzly from the dog boarding facility and he was super excited to see me. I loaded him up in the car and we headed out toward Indianapolis. Once on the road, I had a sudden realization of how much sleep I had missed over the last few nights. At Kevin's place I slept on a couch and didn't sleep more than about 5 hours each night. At the cabin in Shawano I slept on a pull out in the living room near the kitchen. That meant that each night I was the last person to go to sleep and the first person to wake up; I ended up sleeping about 4 hours each night. If it takes seven hours of sleep for me to be fully rested, then on my eight hour drive from Shawano to Indianapolis I was ten hours behind on my sleep. And boy did I notice. I ended up drinking two cups of coffee, a large diet coke, and two monster energy drinks to keep myself awake. I figured that tachycardia and anxiety are safer than exhaustion and drowsiness when I'm behind the wheel. When I got to the hotel in Indianapolis I took two benadryl and slept for about thirteen hours. From now on I'm going to make a point of being rested before my long drives.