Yep. I've already booked a campsite in west Memphis and will drive into Arkansas to see it.
No. The difference between 99% and totality is almost literally night and day. If you can you absolutely owe it to yourself to travel to the path of totality.
Good to know, thanks. Burlington was the closest place for us and we reserved a room months ago. If we're lucky it will be a clear sky. Experienced totality in South Carolina a few years ago and it was otherworldly. Roosters crowing and crickets in the middle of the afternoon!
This 100%. If you arent in totality but are anywhere near it, I cant stress enough how much better it will be if you make the drive. I watched the last one in an old church graveyard near Townsend, TN and it was awesome. The most tiny speck of sun before and after the maybe two minutes of totality is enough to turn daylight into darkness, and darkness right back into daytime in seconds, its really that quick. That tiny percentage of sun on either side of the moon is all the difference in the world as far as how dark it gets.
I could sit at my son’s house - the real challenge in Vermont that time of year is cloud cover…
We were blessed for the 2017 eclipse. Literally just had to walk out the front door and stand in our own front yard. In a town 30 miles East of Nashville.
If it comes with a tailgate party, hotdogs, hamburgers, beers, then maybe.
The edge of Kentucky is in the path. I'm really thinking of going out to visit relatives and see it. Back in 2016 it got to almost twilight where I worked. In Wyoming from the sound of it hotel rooms were $300. The drive back into Colorado from Wyoming was apparently hours on I-25.
Ya no way I'd pay that. Just go to a parking lot and bring your welding helmet. Or in rural areas just look up.
