Eclipse travel?

We are in the path here in Ne Ohio as well. Hotels that usually go for $140-$200 are getting $400+. Gonna be funny when its overcast and no one sees crap.

I feel like people started planning for this shortly after the previous total eclipse. I was able to experience it in the path of totality in South Carolina. It was a life changing experience. The next week I was stoked! I put it on my calendar and had plans to head to Texas. Unfortunately it fell a week after my wife’s spring break (a teacher) so we wouldn’t be able to take that much time off right after a beach vacation. .

Anyway, it was a very cool experience. Not just the eclipse but everything that lead up to it. We traveled an hour to a small town that my dad had scouted out. “Nobody will be there” he said. Boy was he wrong. People were pulled off the side of the road for miles and miles. Everyone was outside town after town. It was like the world’s largest tailgate party. It felt like a scene of a movie where aliens or an asteroid was coming and we were all attending the end of the world party.

The experience will not be the same at 90-95% totality. It will be a like a cloud crossing the sun. If you’re that close I would just go for 100% and deal with the traffic. It’s an amazing experience!

we are going to Stowe VT. My daughter lives in providence we are driving up from there

I have tickets to fly to St. Louis and hopefully see it in southern Illinois with my brother. In 2017 my brother and I had to drive for 3 hours to see the eclipse near Colombia, Mo. We had to drive to get away from the clouds. It was well worth it, the eclipse was the single most impressive thing I've ever seen.

Originally I was going to fly to Mazatlán for it, then the plan was Texas along the Rio Grande or in Hill Country. St. Louis with my brother was just a lot easier to do. The weather makes it 50/50, we may abort if the forecast is pretty bad. Hotels and my air ticket are fully refundable.

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Thinking of staying 30-40 mins away and drive in places just out of the path are not marked up.

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From what I saw of Texas it's pretty hopeless to stay in the path, but driving a couple of hours makes it possible to get a reasonably priced hotel. A month ago San Antonio still had rooms. Have some apps loaded onto your phone so you can improvise as needed, depending on cloud cover. In 2017 I navigated while my brother drove. I had the eclipse path and cloud cover map as references and in the last 30 minutes we found a nice opening in the clouds.

Central Texas is going ape over this. Gonna be a massive letdown if it’s cloudy/storming.