"Dennis Woos" wrote:
That was the end of my observing session for that night but I didn't have
any
trouble being sleepy for that 1 hour late night drive home.

This is what I worry about most - sleepiness on the drive home. I try and
keep a little coffee in reserve, but it doesn't always seem to do the trick.
Anyone have any tips?



Once I fell asleep, when working 80 hour weeks, and drove onto a 4 foot
rise between the different lanes of a road. Woke right up.

Later, I once fell alseep and drove straight at a guard rail on a cliff about 400
feet over a river. Closest I ever came to dying! My friend grabbed the wheel
and said "YOU GOING TO DRIVE?" and he was mad.

Every time I feel sleepy driving now, I think about that guardrail. I haven't
fell asleep at the wheel in 10 years since, just remembering that wakes
me up every time.