There is a ride I really want to do at the end of April, but as my final Gunnar payment will be due the following week I really don't wish do get a hotel room. There IS a Motel 6 about 20 miles away, but I cannot find ONE good review about the place so I am going to give it a pass.

It is about 3.5 hours drive to the ride location - I am considering going to bed really early the evening before, and getting up early enough to make the drive and then try and get a nap in the car before registration opens. Then I would need to make that same ride home that evening...

Has anyone done this? I do have a little tent so another option might be to borrow a sleeping bag and camp the night before but am unsure that I would actually get any sleep that way either. Just trying to think my way through options and wondering how others have solved similar situations.