Back in 2017 I made a road trip with Alpha to view an eclipse as it passed over Illinois. (We got tangled in traffic before we reached the path of totality, but it was a good trip overall.)
When we got home I started planning our next eclipse trip, so that pesky traffic wouldn’t prevent me from seeing totality. Enter the six-year plan leading up to the latest eclipse in 2024, with the path of totality passing over Niagara Falls.
We arrived a couple of days before the eclipse, and left the day after. Traffic would not be a problem this time. We had hotel rooms, cameras, snacks, and chairs.
The one thing you can’t control is the weather. It was cloudy.
Most of the path of totality was cloudy, as a matter of fact. A relatively short swath from Vermont to the Atlantic was mostly clear, but the rest of the path had varying levels of poor weather, including some nasty storms.
We eked by with a mostly cloudy experience, which had a pleasant side-effect: filtering wasn’t required for most of the time.
