Surrey to Edmonton

I have successfully completed the longest non-stop drive of my entire life. Today I drove 12.5 hours from Surrey to Edmonton. And I went alone. I know, lots of people have done it, but it was a big thing to me. I'd never driven more than 4 hours straight until today! And I feel that I've learned a few valuable things today that might be beneficial/amusing to know about long solo road trips:

There are awesome leg stretches you can do while driving.
You'll eventually talk to yourself. And it's actually kind of comforting.
You start to feel really sorry for the bugs hitting your windshield (and categorizing the sizes of the "splats" as they happen)
Calculating your average speed per hour is ridiculously addictive. And if you're anything like me, you end up working out goals to beat (ex. to average 110 km per hour by 3:oopm) or taking VERY short rest stops so as not to mess up your timings too badly...and so you don't get to far behind all those slow cars you just spent the last hour trying to pass, and who now will be in front of you again...drat.
It becomes entertaining to open the window while you're driving and try to see what kind of effect sticking different lengths of your arm out the window at different angles has on the aerodynamicy of your vehicle.

That's all, really. The day was actually quite entertaining. The Rockies are so beautiful; every time I see them, they blow me away. God truly is an artist. Seeing the sun hitting the peaks of those mountains and the beautiful lakes and trees just screams his name. So cool.
But I am very happy that my driving is done for the day.

Little thing: my dad made me breakfast for the road... at 5am