One long evening and one long day of driving found me pulled off on a
parking area on I25 south of Douglas, Wy, at 8:30 PM Sunday evening.
I was totally exhausted and spent the night sleeping in the car. By
morning there were probably twenty other cars/campers parked here, and
more pulled in during the morning. Had a nice view to the west over
rolling sagebrush land, with smoke-obscured mountains in the far
distance. I stayed put.
For those who think a 90% eclipse is a non-event, well, maybe.
But I simply don't have the words for totality. Mind-blowing,
jar-dropping, spiritual, amazing--none of these come even close. One
serious eclipse-watcher there had some huge Celestron telescope set
up, and he welcomed all there to take a peek. I put a welding goggle
filter over a OM 300 mm silver-nosed lens on my OM4T and took several
shots as the moon progressed across the sun. I also had the Canon
1014 XLS on a tripod on the top of the car doing its one frame/second
time lapse of the scenery to the west.
Part of the fun was talking to many of the other observers
there--wonderful folks, and every last one was as carried away as I
was by totality. I'm starting planning for the 2024 eclipse that goes
from Texas to Maine, with totality lasting four minutes.
Totality is orders of magnitude above 90%. I don't have the words
to express it. The drive was worth it many times over.
Totality Dean
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