I'm not sure I can explain it. Like I said, it wasn't awful. We took turns driving, we were on 95 basically the whole way so there was a fair amount of "open road" to just drive on (aside from MD and DC, but you know to expect that), and we had access to Starbucks and clean restrooms along the way. (Seriously, that is my road trip hot tip: If you need a bathroom break, find the Starbucks. They have a superior quality public restroom AND you can get a delicious beverage and snack too!
) But somehow, I was just not refreshed and "ready to go" when we got there. It took most of the (nonrelaxing) week at Disney to unwind, and when it was time to get back in the car, I wished I could do a Bewitched nose-wrinkle and just zap myself home. We did the return trip in one day just because we all wanted to get home and sleep in our own beds. And again, we had a week in between. To do "there and back again" in two days, say, would probably kill me. But it has been many a year since I was in college, so I'm not as young and spry as I used to be, either.
I will say that by driving I was able to raid DTD of every possible piece of AiW merch and just stuff it in the back of the car without worrying about packing, weight limits, baggage fees, etc. (My friend's mother and I agreed that if we got tight on space, we would leave my friend behind or tie him to the roofrack. She loves me more than him, ha ha!) Which maybe backfired, because I came back very poor. But very happy.
