Totality (and Traffic)

Back from the Path.

Dear Reader,

It takes a once-in-a-lifetime event for me not to have my Tuesday post ready to go bright and early Tuesday morning—but, in my defense, yesterday was a once-in-a-lifetime event. I drove up to the North Country and took in the eclipse with LB and her lovely family. As usual when I’m having a good time, I mostly forgot to take pictures. Discerning observers can see us both here:

And we did manage to do a quick YouTube short:

Later, as we watched the sun vanish from LB’s driveway, I put the eclipse glasses—available everywhere for free, mostly—on my phone for one photo of the blotted sun that for some reason isn’t being used by news media the world over…

Also there’s a selfie:

The three-and-a-half hour drive home took five full hours longer than usual. I made ample use of the moonroof (although it was, of course, a new moon—a New Moon on Monday, which I only just now realized). The rest stops, which I managed to avoid, were like scenes from a zombie movie. And yet it was comforting to know that all of these people on the Thruway had made the same choice I did: to travel to totality.

A little traffic was well worth it to spend a lovely time with my friends and witness one of the finest spectacles the galaxy has to offer.