Drowsy Driving

School has started with a hiccup. I ordered the wrong textbook and I'm leaving for vacation but still have an assignment due while I'm away. Oops. I'm so glad Amazon has quick shipping but now I have to read the chapter, pack three bags of clothes, and organize all the food. By 4am. Good thing I don't plan on sleeping much.

I managed to get a couple of hours of sleep before we hit the road for Aniheim. It's dark and chilly at this hour, I kind of like it. I know I'm tired and not fit to drive so I'm not however, apparently there is a trucker on the road that didn't get that memo.

First bus ride!

While driving down I5 outside of Colinga near sunrise we noticed a semi truck that keeps swerving all over the road. For safety sake we pass him only to notice that the driver is clearly falling asleep: closing his eyes and bobbing his head. I don't work in dispatch so I want to call local Highway Patrol but the ex-dispatcher in the car is positive that someone else will have called. Well, isn't that always true. We all think someone is sure to have done it, so nobody ever does it. I think all my guilting won (or they just wanted to shut me up) because I kept asking how'd we feel if we saw on the news tonight that a truck driver feel asleep at the wheel and killed a family. That's always how it goes you know, it's always the perfect Jones family with their 2 and a half kids that gets killed by the irresponsible person leaving just the oldest child maimed for life physically and now an orphan.

3 of us are sharing this bed...

Fate must have been on our side because there is a highway patrolmen on the side of the road finishing a traffic stop. We pull over so mom can run back and warn him about the straying truck that will be passing soon. Too soon. Debby and I watched as the truck literally almost plowed into the police car with my mother standing in front of it. You know that place where the tow truck drivers call the kill zone because it's in between two vehicles and if someone hits the back car (most likely place to hit) then the person in the middle will get squished to death? Yea, that place. It was scary but the semi truck pulled away in time to miss them, mom warned the patrolman, and he took off like a speeding bullet getting him off the road. Good deed for the day done.

Our reward: we can see the park from the Hotel! We even get to go explore Downtown Disney this evening to exchange my ticket for an extra day.