Driving at night is its own kind of strange. Everything is different. Everything is spooky. When all the inhabitants of the car you’re driving have fallen asleep, an eerie, almost ominous atmosphere settles over the mind and takes over.

I am reminded of that facebook post I read about a man driving on the A75 Kinmount Straight in Scotland.

THE most haunted motorway in the UK.

How he described the road suddenly emptying itself of cars, and him driving alone in moonlight which appeared to bathe the entire road in its brilliance. He went into great detail about the stopped cars he would pass at intervals, and the occupants of which were all standing outside their vehicle, their belongings strewn about them in great disarray, and all of them staring at the sky with blank faces. He passed several cars in the same exact state, and began to wonder if he was dreaming, driving in a trance-like state, before he came across normalcy again. Cars driving alongside him, the moon not so bright anymore.

I start to look for ghosts in the dark, you see. The headlamps of my old car are weak, and they don’t illuminate much on the pitch black country roads. Ghost lane, my parents used to talk about.

I stop at a random Timmy Horton’s drive-through(that’s Tim when its at home) for a skinny cappuccino with sugar free vanilla syrup. The guy gives me a large cup, and it’s 10pm, so I am shocked. I still drink every last drop, as I sail my lonely way across the various A roads and onto the motorway. I know I might miss it one day.

I drive right through a red light. And a camera flashes so brightly it almost blinds me, and a great feeling of dread sets in. At a traffic light, I take my phone and quickly search ‘what happens when you get caught running a red light UK’.

A fine. Of course. This country loves to fine us. And three points on my driving license. Bugger.

Hands shaking with caffiene, eyes droopy with sleep (I tell you coffee is useless on me), staying at a steady 70mph, kids sleeping, husband snoring, I wind my way through the lonely country roads. Country rooooaaaddsss. Take me hooooommmee…