Please never drive tired
I almost died in a car accident coming home late from Oakland one night back in 2013. My driver was just tired and wasn’t present enough to know it himself. I woke up when my head hit the window and the right side of our car plowed into a median.
I’m sleeping at a Love’s Truck Stop outside Chattanooga, TN bc I was finally able to convince my driver to stop. We started in Jacksonville, FL this morning. We made it to Macon, GA at 5. I was beat and suggested we just get a cheap motel for the night and head back to Nashville in the morning. My driver insisted that we just hammer out the last 5 hours.
Cut to 6.5 hrs later he’s nodding off at the wheel insisting he can still drive. At that point I took the wheel and got us to a place where we could nap. It reminded me of taking keys from my drunk friends in my 20s.
It seems so easy to just drive those last however many minutes but it’s just as bad as driving drunk. Like being drunk, it’s sometimes hard to notice that you’re body and mind are not sharp enough to be behind the wheel.
Also we put so much time and resources into these life-changing trips. You need to be well-rested to get the most out of them!
Stay safe!
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