When flying to the left coast, I send one of the other pilots to one of the bunk rooms, so he will be refreshed to drive the rental car to Lake Tahoe, and do an Operational Risk Management assessment to determine how many High Charts I can put up in the windows to keep the blasted sun out of my eyes--without compromising safety. The engineer usually has some maintenance issues to entertain our brains, and if we see or hear a C-17 up there, we wager on how close the air refueling tanker is.
