I stayed in Spearfish, got going first thing in the morning, drove to Sundance and then south to get as close to Lusk as I could. Traffic was no big deal till I got past Newcastle
2024 solar eclipse
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It was so incredible being able to look up in the night sky and see that spaceship hiding comet. Shoot, we had units in school built around comets, making comets, studying the tail. I was probably in 2nd or 3rd grade but remember it so well.
We're extremely excited. We're on the center line of the total eclipse. The whole town is throwing a 3 day party beginning Saturday Apr 6. They've already cancelled school for Monday as well. The Cleveland area is expecting 250,000 - 300,000 people showing up.
Got a hotel room south of STL, in Farmington, MO. Will probably attempt to head towards Cape Girardeau but Farmington is in the path to totality so might just stay there.
we went to Mexico, Missouri last time.
It was cloudy so packed the kids in the car and started driving south and then east on I-70.
When it cleared up we pulled over on a random empty exit and it was perfect. We were pretty much dead center of the path.
Gonna keep the options open again and a full tank of gas on the ready. Wherever the weather is best.
So cool. Must see.
It was cloudy so packed the kids in the car and started driving south and then east on I-70.
When it cleared up we pulled over on a random empty exit and it was perfect. We were pretty much dead center of the path.
Gonna keep the options open again and a full tank of gas on the ready. Wherever the weather is best.
So cool. Must see.
Absolutely doing this, will be staying with my girlfriend's family in Waco that weekend. Hopefully there's not a massive deck of clouds over Texas. I'd like to drive out away from the bigger towns/cities a bit and find an open field without anyone else around. That might be hard without trespassing... so I'll probably look for a state park or something similar that has a lot of land so I can walk out away from other people.
We were in northern Kansas and it was overcast. We kind of caught a sliver, but I was pretty bummed.
Fortunately, my wife knew someone who knew someone who was having an eclipse pool party and at that point in the day I was feeling no pain.
I think that's basically what my parents did. They had nothing but clouds but suddenly had a clearing about 15 minutes before totality.
My wife, kids, and I had just visited them in central Iowa and were on our way to Florida. We spent the night before the eclipse in north central Mo and realized we needed to move eastward to get away from the clouds -- our next hotel was near Nashville, so it worked out nicely. We ended up at Paul Ice Recreation Area near Carbondale, IL to view the actual eclipse. It was incredible and eerie, and I knew we'd have to watch the 2024 one as well.
We currently have two motels booked for the night before: south of us near Effingham, IL and east of us near Ft Wayne, IN. We'll pick one and cancel the other depending on the forecast.