The path of the total eclipse was only 200 miles away, so we had to go see it. Originally it started off as just the Millser family, but by the time all was said and done, we had added 5 more families who drove up and camped in anticipation of the big event.
This was the second eclipse that Siew Gin and I had seen. the last one being in 2002 in Africa.
We were super lucky on the drive up, it only took us 3 hours, which is the usual time, despite lots of warnings about traffic.
After putting up all the tents, eating dinner, and then heading to sleep, everyone woke up early had breakfast and settled down to wait for the eclipse.
It comes in four main parts, chomping the sun, totality, the diamond ring, and then unchomping. It took about an hour to chomp the sun, then everything went dark (temperatures dropped), we had around 3 minutes of darkness and lots of oos and aas from the crowd until the diamond ring came out and daylight came around.
We quickly packed up and started driving back. Only to come to a standstill almost immediately. Our journey home took almost ten hours (200 miles), but despite this it is definitely worth the effort to go see the full eclipse.
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| Sunday dinner |
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| Getting ready to watch |
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| We only had 4 on the invite list |
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| Let the chomping begin |
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| I-25 parking lot |
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| So young in 2002, a lot less people as well |
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