My wife was admitted to the ER at ECU Hospital in Greenville, NC with double pneumonia at 11:30 Saturday, was discharged 04:00 Sunday. We wanted to try to make it home ASAP despite having very little sleep, so we left for west Michigan at 07:30.

I figured my options were:

1. Drive until either of us needed to stop.

2. Drive until I got tired and:
a. Pull over and take a nap
b. Drink a Red Bull

3. Just drive

Turned out number 3 worked. We ended up driving 800 miles in 14 hours. The really odd thing is I never really felt tired, didn't need a Red Bull, maybe adrenaline fueled to a degree. Surprisingly, my wife, who usually falls asleep half an hour into a trip, stayed awake the entire way. We were blessed with very light traffic and good weather all the way. Made it back to Battle Creek Before it was entirely dark. Kind of weird that the drive took less time than the ER stay.

She's doing better and we're sure glad to be home.

Glad you made it home.

My wife and I decided if we were far from home, we would just take a hotel before it gets dark. On our first cross country road, I would drive in the dark in unfamiliar roads. Some of those nights were pitch dark on long lonely stretches of highway. It strained my eyes trying to make anything out ahead of us.