She listened, told me she could see how stressed I was, and then, even though the next day was my morning with the kids, she offered to wake up with them at 6 a.m. whileIslept a little later.
Three hours later, somewhere over Iowa or Indiana or some other equally flat, patchwork landscape, while my wife slept and my kids watched a movie they'd never be allowed to see at home, I hauled my laptop out and fired it up.