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Your return trip is worse than mine! Can’t believe it…
My return 252 mile return trip from Casper, WY took 12 3/4 hours behind the wheel due to traffic snarls. Had food in my SUV, so only made one potty stop (about 10 minutes).
Good luck, Patty!
I am back to Orange County in California: land of plastic people and plants. I had my house inspection in Loveland, Colorado on Friday. I'm really looking forward to that new life. I pulled some weeds while waiting for the lock box code.
Yeah, right. As I recall, you have never been to California and don't want to go to California.
I spent an Easter holiday in San Diego. Weather was awesome. But what blew me away was the kids home for the holiday driving dad's cars - Ferrari, Merc, etc. - one classic or modern after another. I sat at picnic like table, as I recall, in front of the motel or hotel (don't recall which) and kept thinking OMG you're not in Michigan anymore!
I spent an Easter holiday in San Diego. Weather was awesome. But what blew me away was the kids home for the holiday driving dad's cars - Ferrari, Merc, etc. - one classic or modern after another. I sat at picnic like table, as I recall, in front of the motel or hotel (don't recall which) and kept thinking OMG you're not in Michigan anymore!
Thats how it is in Naples, Fla. Kids driving around in their gazillionaire parents Lambos, Ferrari's, Porsches. I was stationed on Coronado Island in San Diego for my 2 year stint in the Navy. Talk about great duty. I love San Diego.
Just got back from Nashville late this afternoon. Grandson, Sandy's birthday, and eclipse all great.
I can't compete with Gary but here is a nice pic of the sun just starting to re-emerge taken by my niece who claims to have no photographic skills whatsoever. Taken with an OK point-and-shoot camera with no filters, exposure on auto.
The rest of these pics were taken with a Sony Cybershot, basically a snapshot camera.
A friend of our son let us all watch from her back yard on a lake in Hendersonville, Northeast of Nashville. Watchers included our nephew and his family who drove up from Orlando and several friends of Rob. Lots of nerds (and we are talking PROFESSIONAL nerds...software engineers, scientists, etc.) and kids. Great group with whom to share the experience.
Here is the false sunset just before totality. We were really lucky on cloud cover. As you can see, it was partly cloudy but the sun remained in the clear for the duration of totality, a little over 2 minutes from our vantage point. Unfortunately for many, in Nashville a large cumulus cloud rolled in just before totality and hid the sun for the duration. This included about 8000 folks who had gathered at the Adventure Science Center in downtown Nashville.
And we also saw lots of crescents among the dappled light under some shade trees.
One last shot at totality. Rob has a good camera but no filters for this application. Again, just shot on auto exposure.
We also saw "snakes on the ground" and some pics were taken. Waiting for them to be posted so I can grab them to post here.
Southwest did not pay for the hotel. Weather is not their fault so I didn't expect them to. We watched that flooding while sitting on the plane for close to 3 hours. It was quite a light show with pounding rain and thunder. We were told that if we didn't get out of KC MO last night we wouldn't get out until Wednesday. All flights leaving on Tuesday (today) were fully booked. We had lots of company who flew there for the eclipse. We are in Vegas waiting for our flights to Sacramento and Orange County.
As Mark Twain stated: "The weather, everyone talks about it, but no one does anything about it? "
08-22-2017, 12:05 PM
