re: Eclipse travel?

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!