Rest Areas / Truck Stops Full - Eclipse!

The totality was cooler than I thought it would be. Where we are in upstate NY we were able to watch it right from the back yard.

The traffic last night for work though.. a drive that normally takes me 1 hour and 40 minutes took me 5 hours. It was bumper to bumper from Burlington VT down through NH.

The totality was cooler than I thought it would be. Where we are in upstate NY we were able to watch it right from the back yard.

The traffic last night for work though.. a drive that normally takes me 1 hour and 40 minutes took me 5 hours. It was bumper to bumper from Burlington VT down through NH.

Yeah, the traffic today was horrible. I started out at 0400 in Dallas and was routed up 287 north to Amarillo. I never thought about what today would be like. Apparently, hordes of people traveled to the Dallas area for the eclipse and were returning to their caves today. Many, many RV’s clogging up the highway. As Klutch said, the normal travel time was much longer and more difficult.

Yesterday I loved the eclipse and today I hate it. lol

I as in Uvalde, TX for the show. Cloudy the whole time but for a few moments/seconds when the eclipse popped through. Under the clouds, the approaching darkness looked like a really bad rainstorm approaching, but no rain. Yes, the birds started doing their evening routine since the light was disappearing.

As the darkness passed, I caught an interesting view in the clouds:

Not really a sunset, since it was around 2:30 in the afternoon. The next day (Tuesday) I caught the moon's first crescent at sunset:

A friend was in the rest area at I-10/Kerrville. He told me there was no room at the rest area for nearly any vehicle. And once the show was over, no one heeded the highway sign advice:

Park early or leave later.

I endured rush-hour style traffic from Uvalde to San Antonio,

I had a good view of it from Dickson, TN, west of Nashville. I left Grand Prairie, TX, around 0100ish and was clear of Little Rock before morning traffic hit. I luckily suffered no eclipse-related traffic shenanigans.

I had left Memphis headed up I-55 . In 8 hours I only drove 255 miles traffic was horrible. It got pretty dark in Missouri.

I was about a half hour south of Portland, Maine. Looked like a really cloudy day.