Posted on 08/24/2017 2:10:17 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Heh!
We left Denver at 5AM for Casper, Wyoming.
Didn’t get home until 10:30 PM that evening.
Glad I paid for a rental vehicle.
I was in Texas in January ... it was in the 80's then. Coming from Montana I was too hot the whole week.
But the Tex Mex food, fishing and golf were fantastic!
Lol. Traffic delays are pretty rare in that part of the country.
I went to see the eclipse in Oregon, along snake river, near Idaho.
Zero traffic despite the armagedon type warnings.....a until returning that is.
Oregon decided they would take the 2 lane northbound bridge into Washington and shut one of the lanes. This caused a ten mile long backup of stop n go traffic.
Zero traffic as soon as you got across the bridge.....
I saw Oregonians abandoning their cars and walking home.
Despite that stupidity it was totally worth it for the 2:05 of totality.
Got some fantastic photos.
I was on that northbound road at that time - we watched the eclipse in Idaho, and the moment it was done, we immediately left to go back to Calgary (a 1000-km trip).
We were travelling at 90 mph (speed limit was 80 mph) and traffic suddenly stopped due to construction. We barely moved for half an hour and when we finally got into the single lane, traffic sped up to around 40-50 mph.
What was INFURIATING was they blocked off a single lane for seven miles (I measured) and it was only at very end where there was ONE worker, and he was on the SOUTHBOUND lane (which was ALSO blocked off by traffic cones).
To make matters worse, these yoyos blocked off one lane three more times before Helena, and each time, they blocked off 4-5 miles and only one of the remaining three had any workers - only ONE guy.
I commented to my kids that they are obviously government union workers.
We did get home, but it took us 12.5 hours to get back to Calgary.
Still, experiencing a totality was a life-altering experience. The partial eclipses I saw in the past were nothing compared to what I witnessed last Monday.
I submitted my vacation request today for the week before and of April 8, 2024. I want to see it again!
Someone on another thread mentioned that the difference between 99% and totality was akin to that between a kiss and sex...
The speed limit is 80 MPH and I always set may cruse control to 87.
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