re: Leaving late afternoon and driving through the night with kids on road trips

I've done this multiple times recently, albeit with Vyvanse I got from a coworker. 3 years ago my family of 6 left Lafayette at 6pm and arrived to Gatlinburg around 7:30am. Made 2 stops for gas. We were the last family to arrive (my parents and 3 sisters and their families got there the day before). Walked into the cabin, and everyone was getting ready for a hike. My kids, fresh from sleeping almost the entire way, looked at me and said they wanted to go with their cousins. That hike was rough, especially having to carry some of kids through some of the hike. I passed out that afternoon.

Went to Marion, NC, a couple years ago. We were set to check out Saturday morning. I told my wife let's just bath the kids, feed them dinner, and hit the road the Friday evening before around 7pm. I popped a stimulant, stopped twice for gas...once right outside Atlanta and in Slidell. We got on the Evangeline Thwy, about 15 minutes from our house around 8am, and all my kids wake up saying they need the bathroom. When you only have to stop twice for gas on trips like those, I find it worth it driving through the night. Just need some pharmaceutical help.