That is no fun being in a car that long. My friend in Canada's wife's parents drove to Toronto from no-where "Quebec" last year. When they left at the end of their stay they ended up going west instead of east. They only found out their error when they got to Windsor, Ontario, about 4 hours away. They had to drive 4 hours just to get back to their original starting point. lol
Great that you saw the family etc.
I should mention that most financial services businesses mandate that employees take at least a week, sometimes two, off with no access to their work network and no physical access to the office. It is in our policies manual that this must be done. The reason is simple. In virtually all cases where employees are found to be "monkeying" with the books it is also found that they have never taken more than a day or two off at a time. They cannot afford to be out for longer because the likelihood that they will be discovered increases exponentially the longer they are out of the office. Sometimes they simply need to be there to book an entry into the system every week to cover up their theft or wrongdoing.
I had a case where a guy in the office was using funds held by some clients to pay the bills of other clients, because he hated collecting money and didn't want the clients to complain about his time being charged. In that case we found he had disregarded our policy of taking at least a week off, otherwise we would have found out sooner. His manager never even checked. He actually ended up catching himself. For some reason his network access was shut down one day and, due to a guilty conscience, he assumed he had been caught. I had to go hunt him down at a bar, trying to make sure he was ok, because he just walked out of the office and didn't come back that day. When I found him he was hammered and spilled the beans on himself.
We now double and triple check that everyone takes "mandatory leave" every year. That incident above cost us about $100,000.
