Nero Days in Ohio

I am sick, very sick, well not very sick, but stay home from school sick at least. I am pretty sure I have a fever, and my ears are plugged up. I have three days to make it from Cleveland to Adrian.
Total drive time according to GPS is just over two hours but I am so sick right now that all I really want to do is climb into a warm bed and pass out with soup and lemonade. Those are three things I don't have and don't want to give into. I am trying to train myself for the AT and am afraid that if I give up and just go get a hotel room now, I will turn away at the first sign of pain/trouble on the trail. So I focus instead on what I do have.
1. A bunch of pictures to go through.
2. Some logs to write out.
3. Books to read.
4. A headcold.
I settle into a service plaza food court on the Ohio turnpike and start to write up the actual Groundhog Day log. It takes longer than what I think it should because I rewrite it on the fly a few times. Historically, I am not great with rough drafts. I am going to have to work on that. But I finally get it knocked out.I feel like utter crud, though. I buy some dayquil and some emrgen-c from the travel store and load up.
I am not sure if it was the dayquil, or the combination dayquil, sleep deprivation/augmentation, or what, but I go out. Wicked quick. I know I took the capsules in the truck, and came back in to use the facilities before heading down the road, but that is all I remember. I lost nearly three hours and come to sitting on a bench in the service plaza. My money is on the dayquil. I don't take pills often so when I do, they tend to have odd effects on me. I went back out to the truck and slept for at least another five hours out there. When I woke I felt much better, but still not quite right.
I decided to kill some time reading through a book I had borrowed from a co-worker on the Appalachian Trail. Many of the authors concerns/doubts resonate deeply with me. I fear that much of my life has been wasted foolishly making no impact on the world around me. Stuck making money for things that I don't want to impress people I don't care about. I keep saying I can do with less, but I haven't. The remainder of the day is just reading and then typing up the last two log entries to get me square. Now I head to the land of my birth to see my kid sister and her family.