On the Road Again

The route is planned, the weekend is locked in. I'm heading to Dallas, Texas in an Acura TL, via Chicago, with my work buddies. The sched has us leaving Toronto around lunch time next Friday and heading to Chicago for an evening painting various things red. Then, with someone drawing the shortest straw as the designated driver and therefore the first watch behind the wheel, without any sleep, we plan to head south through Illinois in the wee hours of Saturday morning. The drive is about 8 hours Toronto-Chicago, then another 14 hours to Dallas, nice. We'll recover Saturday arvo and then check out Dallas for Saturday night and Sunday, flying home to Toronto Monday lunchtime.