I'm not a road warrior

When my wife wanted to squeeze in a drive to Tennessee and then Missouri to our vacation I reverted back to being a two-year-old.

To me there was nothing appealing about spending 60 hours of precious vacation time on the road. To make matters worse, before the vacation I had to give myself an early deadline for our Fall Sports Preview and knew that I would be exhausted before we would head to Chicago.

I’m not a road warrior. I get antsy and bored when I have to drive anywhere over an hour away.

The night before our family getaway, I had experienced anxiety like I never had before. I was s...