I'm an early arriver too, hate the last minute hassles ... but one time driving from Lakewood to DEN I was so enjoying the conversation with my colleague that I mistakenly headed up I-25 (?) towards Boulder ... realized Rockies were on the wrong side of the car...

turned around and headed back the right way, told her to not look at the speedometer but look far ahead for cops/radar, and not to worry, I have over 1,000 miles of high speed on-track performance driver training.

I never knew a Camry could cruise so comfy at 105mph but we made it to rental return ---> bus to terminal ---> and to the plane door about 3 seconds before they closed it and didn't miss the flight!

We were sure we'd missed it.

cheers,
Jon