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22 Aug 2017, 8:07 pm
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I made the trip to Madras OR. to see this once-in-a-lifetime event. the eclipse of the century in terms of its near-universal observability all across America. the difference between totality and almost totality is like the difference between pregnant and almost pregnant. @totality it suddenly got to be about as dark as twilight, or about 9:30 at night in the summer. cool! 
I think you're probably right. However, my ride was acting all weird and criticizing me for asking when we were coming back. He has some problem with me, apparently with my way of having autism. It makes me want to avoid him if I'm having a mystical experience. I'll hope to be in a better situation, and make more of an effort in 7 years.
so did you not get to see it, or you got to see it but the experience was marred by this man? in any case, 7 years is plenty of time to prepare for the next one in texas!
[that one will travel from latin America up into Canada in a roughly 60-mile-wide band of totality].
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22 Aug 2017, 8:09 pm
22 Aug 2017, 8:41 pm
auntblabby wrote:
I made the trip to Madras OR. to see this once-in-a-lifetime event. the eclipse of the century in terms of its near-universal observability all across America. the difference between totality and almost totality is like the difference between pregnant and almost pregnant. @totality it suddenly got to be about as dark as twilight, or about 9:30 at night in the summer. cool!
I don't know where you live, but you are an intrepid adventurer.
Even if I had elected to go to my grandparents house in Tigard OR, it was still like a 2-3 hour drive from there to Madras (under normal traffic conditions). I was fearful of a massive amount of people crammed into one place and on one road.
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22 Aug 2017, 8:44 pm
EzraS wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
I made the trip to Madras OR. to see this once-in-a-lifetime event. the eclipse of the century in terms of its near-universal observability all across America. the difference between totality and almost totality is like the difference between pregnant and almost pregnant. @totality it suddenly got to be about as dark as twilight, or about 9:30 at night in the summer. cool!
I don't know where you live, but you are an intrepid adventurer. Even if I had elected to go to my grandparents house in Tigard OR, it was still like a 2-3 hour drive from there (under normal traffic conditions).
I am normally a timid sort but I knew that if I turned down this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to cross off this bucket list item, i'd kick myself forevermore. so I prepared as best I could, gulped and took the plunge. the traffic was MURDER!
10 @#$%ing hours to go from Madras to home. traffic just crawled the whole way.
22 Aug 2017, 8:48 pm
auntblabby wrote:
EzraS wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
I made the trip to Madras OR. to see this once-in-a-lifetime event. the eclipse of the century in terms of its near-universal observability all across America. the difference between totality and almost totality is like the difference between pregnant and almost pregnant. @totality it suddenly got to be about as dark as twilight, or about 9:30 at night in the summer. cool!
I don't know where you live, but you are an intrepid adventurer. Even if I had elected to go to my grandparents house in Tigard OR, it was still like a 2-3 hour drive from there (under normal traffic conditions).
I am normally a timid sort but I knew that if I turned down this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to cross off this bucket list item, i'd kick myself forevermore. so I prepared as best I could, gulped and took the plunge. the traffic was MURDER!
10 @#$%ing hours to go from Madras to home. traffic just crawled the whole way.Your a real trooper, I could never get over my introvertness enough to leave town, let alone go on a 10 hour drive.
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22 Aug 2017, 8:49 pm
auntblabby wrote:
EzraS wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
I made the trip to Madras OR. to see this once-in-a-lifetime event. the eclipse of the century in terms of its near-universal observability all across America. the difference between totality and almost totality is like the difference between pregnant and almost pregnant. @totality it suddenly got to be about as dark as twilight, or about 9:30 at night in the summer. cool!
I don't know where you live, but you are an intrepid adventurer. Even if I had elected to go to my grandparents house in Tigard OR, it was still like a 2-3 hour drive from there (under normal traffic conditions).
I am normally a timid sort but I knew that if I turned down this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to cross off this bucket list item, i'd kick myself forevermore. so I prepared as best I could, gulped and took the plunge. the traffic was MURDER!
10 @#$%ing hours to go from Madras to home. traffic just crawled the whole way.That's what I was afraid of, even as a passenger. I wish more now I had gone through with. Although I'm not sure who would have taken me who wanted to brave all that.
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22 Aug 2017, 8:53 pm
Austinfrom1995 wrote:
Your a real trooper, I could never get over my introvertness enough to leave town, let alone go on a 10 hour drive.
thank you
I think if you had a good wingman you could have coped well with it. in a rental motor home it would have been a breeze. saw plenty of those on the trip. wish I coulda done it that way as well.
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22 Aug 2017, 8:54 pm
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That's what I was afraid of, even as a passenger. I wish more now I had gone through with. Although I'm not sure who would have taken me who wanted to brave all that.
I would have driven you if you had asked me.
22 Aug 2017, 8:58 pm
auntblabby wrote:
Austinfrom1995 wrote:
Your a real trooper, I could never get over my introvertness enough to leave town, let alone go on a 10 hour drive.
thank you
I think if you had a good wingman you could have coped well with it. in a rental motor home it would have been a breeze. saw plenty of those on the trip. wish I coulda done it that way as well.I would certainly need a motor home, I must be close to a safe place at all times, least I get caught out in the open when the anxieties attack. But I think a wingman as well would have helped me, especially in crowds. Your welcome, btw.
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22 Aug 2017, 9:12 pm
auntblabby wrote:
EzraS wrote:
That's what I was afraid of, even as a passenger. I wish more now I had gone through with. Although I'm not sure who would have taken me who wanted to brave all that.
I would have driven you if you had asked me.
I would have gone for it if i had I known you were headed that way. Good ol hindsight.
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22 Aug 2017, 9:56 pm
EzraS wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
EzraS wrote:
That's what I was afraid of, even as a passenger. I wish more now I had gone through with. Although I'm not sure who would have taken me who wanted to brave all that.
I would have driven you if you had asked me.
I would have gone for it if i had I known you were headed that way. Good ol hindsight.
oh well, there's Texas in 2025.
22 Aug 2017, 10:23 pm
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