As a friend who we dragged to Dallas for this experience expressed it, you can tell someone all the words, with all the excitement behind it, but until you actually experience the eclipse within the path of totality you will not understand how mind blowing it is.
Tim did a great job of capturing the experience ... partial eclipses are indeed very cool but totality was mind-blowing. You should almost think of it as an entirely different phenomenon from a partial eclipse.
Drove 7 hours on Sunday to get 3 minutes of it in Stowe, VT, and it somehow exceeded my unreasonably high expectations. Most amazing natural thing I've ever seen by an order of magnitude and now I can't wait to go somewhere else in my life to experience it again!
Fortunate to have experienced 2 in the path of totality, although this time in downtown Austin it was kind of a bummer because it was pretty cloudy.
But in 2017 we were in Corvallis, Oregon with our daughter who was attending Oregon State University. They had an entire program of events leading up to the eclipse and it was a fantastic experience.
One of my all time favorite pictures (which I wish I could post here) was taken during the eclipse by my daughter's then-boyfriend of me, my wife, our son and daughter all looking into the sky with our glasses on and we all have the same goofy amazed happy faces. A truly joyous moment that I always think about when folks say "what's the big deal about an eclipse"?
Last full one with totality that went through Oregon ,I had a similar experience but from the top of Mt. Tabor very spiritual and gave me a feeling to be a transistor to healing the world 🌎 Gods spiritually going through impenetrable barriers. Moving inviting hearts, yearning to belong and get a hug. ❤️🩹
Thanks for this. I was kind of like you, hadn't really given it a lot of thought until a couple of days before. We got about 65% here in Denver, and I didn't have glasses, so I wasn't really expecting to see anything. But as I was walking in my neighborhood around peak time, just in case a spare pair happened to present itself, a lady waved to me from her driveway across the street, glasses in hand, calling, "Do you want to look at the eclipse?!" I scampered over, calling back, "I do!!!" and was able to get a quick look after all, plus have a little chat with her.
No epic road trip or story, but a nice little moment on an otherwise typical Monday. And even watching totality happen live on TV was unexpectedly cool and made me unexpectedly emotional. Good stuff!
As a friend who we dragged to Dallas for this experience expressed it, you can tell someone all the words, with all the excitement behind it, but until you actually experience the eclipse within the path of totality you will not understand how mind blowing it is.
Tim did a great job of capturing the experience ... partial eclipses are indeed very cool but totality was mind-blowing. You should almost think of it as an entirely different phenomenon from a partial eclipse.
Drove 7 hours on Sunday to get 3 minutes of it in Stowe, VT, and it somehow exceeded my unreasonably high expectations. Most amazing natural thing I've ever seen by an order of magnitude and now I can't wait to go somewhere else in my life to experience it again!
Church. Maybe the city should bring back public flogging. Who doesn’t want to see their enemies beaten?
Fortunate to have experienced 2 in the path of totality, although this time in downtown Austin it was kind of a bummer because it was pretty cloudy.
But in 2017 we were in Corvallis, Oregon with our daughter who was attending Oregon State University. They had an entire program of events leading up to the eclipse and it was a fantastic experience.
One of my all time favorite pictures (which I wish I could post here) was taken during the eclipse by my daughter's then-boyfriend of me, my wife, our son and daughter all looking into the sky with our glasses on and we all have the same goofy amazed happy faces. A truly joyous moment that I always think about when folks say "what's the big deal about an eclipse"?
Last full one with totality that went through Oregon ,I had a similar experience but from the top of Mt. Tabor very spiritual and gave me a feeling to be a transistor to healing the world 🌎 Gods spiritually going through impenetrable barriers. Moving inviting hearts, yearning to belong and get a hug. ❤️🩹
Thanks for this. I was kind of like you, hadn't really given it a lot of thought until a couple of days before. We got about 65% here in Denver, and I didn't have glasses, so I wasn't really expecting to see anything. But as I was walking in my neighborhood around peak time, just in case a spare pair happened to present itself, a lady waved to me from her driveway across the street, glasses in hand, calling, "Do you want to look at the eclipse?!" I scampered over, calling back, "I do!!!" and was able to get a quick look after all, plus have a little chat with her.
No epic road trip or story, but a nice little moment on an otherwise typical Monday. And even watching totality happen live on TV was unexpectedly cool and made me unexpectedly emotional. Good stuff!