Towns in the path of totality pretty much all recommend you bring your own food. Will be difficult I would think getting into a decent restaurant.
2024 solar eclipse
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Was in St. Louis 7 years ago for it. Our work even had shirts made up. Had a manufacturer want to come in and see it so he and his son came. Pretty cool!!
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Where at in Arkansas? My parents live in Bull Shoals and it's all they're talking about.
Taking Sweetie Pie (1st wife) to Mt. Home, Ark. Sunday for overnight. Choice Hotel system jacked price to $350, just glad to get it. Planning on 60 miles to Cherokee Village, Ark. for viewing at peak spot. They’ve been planning for two years and have a 3 day festival scheduled. But will check weather that morning and adjust where we go if need be. Last eclipse a few years ago we went to Savannah, Mo which was in the peak zone but it was 100% cloud cover that day. Bummer, hoping for no clouds on the 8th, obviously.
I think south of DFW metroplex and down around the Hill County will be worse but it’s all going to be a cluster! We’ll just be watching from our back yard with friends and neighbors fingers crossed for clear skies
A farm about 20 miles west of Aly, if you can call that a town
I promised her 45 years ago that she need not worry, I wasn’t going thru that process again.For a memorable trip, take the second wife too.
Same. We pulled off the interstate and drove to some rando town hs football stadium parking lot. It was great until the entire school came out to join us 10 minutes before the event, that was awkward.
We went to Pony Express Lake NW of Cameron, I believe. We were in place early enough. Even though is was just a short distance to US 36 and I-35, both were parking lots. I would not be able to retrace the roundabout route back to Polk County. It took HOURS.
We had almost the same itinerary except about 20 miles apart. My friend and I drove through Lusk just before sunrise and got to Jay Em as the sun was coming up. This was our spot for the day.
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I don't have any tips, but I'd expect it to be an absolute madhouse. I was in the middle of nowhere, WY in 2017, and it took three hours to drive the 34 miles from Jay Em to Torrington afterwards due to the amount of traffic heading back south into Colorado. I swear the state of Colorado must have been empty that day.
You want to be in the middle of nowhere if you can. City lights will come on and partially ruin the effect if you are around streetlights.
We ended up just east of there, in Hamilton. The 10 miles back to I-35, yeah, a couple hours at least. Nutty.
This time, I think we will bring a deck of cards, and maybe a grill. Hell, maybe the whole tailgate setup, that might be the clever thing to do.
Speaking of the eclipse, Being that the sun is out today I should put my filter on the camera and get my settings for that. I pulled out my cheat sheet from last time and have no idea how I was able to photograph it in 2017 based on those chicken scratches.
We were at a friend's acreage in that area the night before and day of. It was totally overcast all morning and just started clearing up as the partial began. Was totally clear by totality. We got so lucky there. Was planning to drive back to MN for work the next day. After a couple of hours sitting in that I-35 bumper to bumper traffic crawl I called my boss and told him it wasn't happening, I was taking another day. Ended up staying in Ames overnight.
If it ends up being more overcast than sunny, here is my 10 minute experience from '17. My most impressive capture was a timelapse of the surrounding countryside. Seeing the foreground go dark while distant hills were somewhat lit was kinda cool.
This is a snip from seemingly my best shot from my test. I had my focus turned on infinity but that is a bit tricky. I might try to just set it to auto and let it focus and then switch it to manual mode.
Interesting that I don't see any sun spots
Interesting that I don't see any sun spots
Roadside motels asking $1K for rooms in southern Illinois I was told by a local. Last time they ran out of gas as people hoarded when they thought the area was going to be descended upon. A rare part of the world that has experienced the phenomenon recently is trying to better prepare.
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