All over — That’s it for twenty years. 2024 Total Solar Eclipse

That’s it then. Our choice of location was great, and the traffic on the drive home, while busy for small local roads, was fine. The nearest small town to us Doniphan, Missouri (Population 1,700 in 2020), had around 20,000 visitors — according to someone who was there.

This Eclipse had been longer, and darker than both of my previous eclipses

I realized afterwards that I didn’t research the eclipse thoroughly enough, and so wasn’t fully prepared for the event.

“An eclipse is an eclipse? Right?”

Wrong! They have different levels of darkness and duration, governed by factors such as how close the Moon is to the Earth. This Eclipse had been longer, and darker than both of my previous eclipses, and that had been so obvious that I had to research it when I got home.

Heading home, we stopped at a still throbbing West Plains for food and a bathroom break. Well to be honest, we also swapped drivers, and Lanie and I indulged in dirty martinis.

Keeping to the back roads to avoid the traffic, we dropped in to visit Jim and Carol on our way back to Springfield.

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