17 hour drive? Dude, break that up. Stop in ATL and hit the new aquarium, looked pretty wodie.
Last year driving to GS, left at 5p, stopped for dinner in Nashville about 8:30, MIL/WS/G all out by 10. Popped on podcast and hammer down, no traffic, rolled in around 2:30a. Easy peasy chicken greasy.
Way home, left a day early at 8am(weekday), drove first 3 hours through the still very active remnants of a tropical storm, hit stand still traffic, stopped and took WAY too long for lunch, heavy rush hour traffic in Nashville, Gwas over it with 3 hours to go and screamed the rest of the way. Rolled in 12.5 hours. Basically 2.5 hours longer and 10,000,000,000 x's more frustrating.
I'll try to never drive more than 5 hours but if I do it'll be through the night. Hell we did that back in college for every road trip.