I'll be fishing alone at this cool location, casting into that riffle:


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you can finally drop the eclipse glasses and WOW!!!! --- FULL CORONA in heavenly, blazing glory. One is simply quite overwhelmed.

My son and I will try and catch the next one, even if we have to drive to it.

Wanted to rent a car but they wanted over $200 for the weekend... for, get this, a Mitsubishi Eclipse. What assholes!

I am so jealous!!! Have fun!

It may burn off by totality. Or not. We're not in the totality zone, but I'd like to someday see a partial eclipse: I always seem to draw the adverse weather for them.

Not the real Trump. of course.

Scientists warn me to not stare at sun during #SolarEclipse2017, but these are the SAME people who say Global Warming is real.

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Outside of Crossville. I haven't left the house since we got here, but my sister in-law just got back from an errand and reports the roads are clogged with lots of people on roadsides and in fields.

The eclipse and totality was wonderful, the drive home took me 4 hours to get there and nearly 7 to get home. I did, however, gain a superpower. I gained the ability to keep my bladder from exploding while waiting in traffic for extremely long periods of time.

Been on the road since 11:00 am and don't expect to reach my hotel until 11:00 pm. Combining eclipse plus vacation seemed like a good idea just this morning.

Oy. Just got back to Springfield. Took over 5 hours.

Lots of traffic on the highway back towards the valley afterwards, but no real issues. I turn off into the National Forest on a remote road after just 20 miles.

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Vancouver WA to a little town just north of Salem OR, and it took about 2 hours to get back home. We had lunch afterwards to kill a little time and the traffic delays on I5 and 205 were already decreasing 3 hours after totality. I think a lot of people in the region took the day off and stayed home and off the roads.

I thought the buildup to totality - the one hour of the moon blocking the sun - was underwhelming. The effects - cooling down & darkening - were very gradual. I was hoping to see the moon's shadow racing by as totality started, but we were on flat terrain and the shadow moves so fast that it seemed to darken instantaneously. However, the short period of totality was actually more striking than I expected: a huge black flaming orb in the sky! Almost indescribable and unforgettable.