Total Eclipse of the Sun will jam CG's!

As we live in the area of Columbia SC we plan to stay just where we are and look up.

I assumed everything was booked up by now. I wanted to go but, school starts August 23rd.

It would be too much of a rush to get the kids back in time. :(

There should be another one in a hundred or so years. I'll wait for the next one. :)

Seen it before, no big deal.
It'll happen again.

yup X2

I certainly couldn't see taking any kind of long trip to be in the ideal spot to just look at the sun being covered. :R

They say most of the people from out of the country that come here for it will be from China. Go figure!

Hope the influx of all those lookie lou eclipse worshipers doesn't affect our RV'ers that are planning vacation trips to those areas though.

I guess I would've never guessed people actually travel to go see an eclipse.

Sprink-Fitter wrote:
I guess I would've never guessed people actually travel to go see an eclipse.

Actually it's no wonder at all. If you consider what is really happening, it's well worth seeing. A full eclipse is not seen that often without doing some serious traveling.

I've always wondered at people who will travel to see some kind of sporting event. And pay big bucks for the privilege, i.e. Superbowl, Olympics, etc.

rockhillmanor wrote:
Where will you be on August 21?

We would have just returned the day before from a camping trip but reminded by your post I've extended our stay so we can experience this infrequent phenomenon while camping at the beach. This eclipse may only be 78% here in S Ontario but it'll still be pretty spectacular. Thanks! :B

fj12ryder wrote:

Sprink-Fitter wrote:
I guess I would've never guessed people actually travel to go see an eclipse.

Actually it's no wonder at all. If you consider what is really happening, it's well worth seeing. A full eclipse is not seen that often without doing some serious traveling.

I've always wondered at people who will travel to see some kind of sporting event. And pay big bucks for the privilege, i.e. Superbowl, Olympics, etc.

And they cheer for "their" players who are not even from the town they represent. Then they sit in the rain when they could stay home and watch it on TV. I enjoyed it when my son played high school football. The kids were all from our area and you knew them all. Once you get to the college or NFL level, the players are all bought and paid for and a bunch of them shouldn't be in college anyway. Society puts to much emphasis on how well someone can handle a ball.

We've had a plan for a year and a half. We're going to be right on the line on top of a mountain. We got our campsite months ago. We had an alarm set in our phone that went off 6 months and two weeks before the eclipse so we could get a site. You couldn't reserve a site any more than 6 months in advance there and two weeks was the max stay so we were the first to reserve there. Then we canceled the first week. Tricky wasn't it?

You're going to want to be someplace without lights. When it gets dark, you don't want streetlights coming on.

gbopp wrote:
I assumed everything was booked up by now. I wanted to go but, school starts August 23rd.

It would be too much of a rush to get the kids back in time. :(

There should be another one in a hundred or so years. I'll wait for the next one. :)

I'd make the kids be a few days late.