(August 28, 2017 at 11:44 am)Clueless Morgan Wrote:(August 28, 2017 at 11:40 am)vorlon13 Wrote: I did OK on my own seeing the 2017 eclipse, but for 2024, I think I would have a strong preference for a 'destination' style experience. Traveling to a hotel with an organized program for the event and transportation to the viewing site, etc.
The stress this year of worrying about viewing conditions and traveling to a site took some of the blush from the experience. Making the hard part somebody else's problem sounds very appealing now.
I didn't find the experience to be that stressful. I admit that I woke up a couple of times in the middle of the night and checked traffic cameras to see how bad things were, but they weren't bad at all and we totally got up at 5am and just headed south and found a bitchin' spot.
Our experience wasn't that stressful. We drove down the afternoon before, had a leisurely breakfast the next day, and set up in my dad's driveway. The only pre-eclipse stress was the realization that fog started rolling in anew a few minutes after it started. We packed up and started heading to Grand Ronde to get above the cloud layer, but turned back shortly after when the fog cleared. The rest of the eclipse went off without a hitch.
Even the drive back was pretty mild. Google directed us around the worst traffic, which ended up routing us over about 8 miles of unpaved - but empty - road.
