Getting used to another coast does take some effort.
Especially when you’re the kind of person that’s used to going to sleep just after midnight, Pacific time. Even with some incredible amounts of exhaustion (no forcefully staying awake and trying to use that to sleep at the “normal” time to try and reset), getting a sleep schedule is a pain. About 3 or 4 in the morning here is what would be the best time of night in CA. Well, it took about 3 days of sleeping whenever, and 3 days of forcefully waking up earlier, to start getting used to it. Still, it’s almost like the days of work used to be, giving me a rather dull fog for a while. Still, far better than driving, sleeping a couple hours, and driving again.
My total journey from Sacramento, CA, to New Jersey, took just under 70 hours, from Friday at 1 PM EST and arrived Monday at 8 AM EST. I slept Friday night for 6, Saturday night for 3, and napped a couple times Sunday during the day for about 2 hours a piece, and must have been on the road at least 10 hours straight throughout the night, mostly passing through Pennsylvania from 1 AM to 8 AM, around there, give or take.
It’s not something I’d care to repeat, that’s for sure. It takes a pretty big toll on you. But it was interesting to do. You learn a bit, and I could see it being somewhat fun to go across the country, just not in the form of going across the I-80 in record time. Or using I-80 for much of anything, since Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, Kansas, Iowa, and Pennsylvania all have a grand total of maybe 5 places to stop and go see if you don’t want to stray more than 10 miles from I-80, not much to see otherwise.
