PollyannaMom
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- May 16, 2006
Well done!I hope this loads ok. This is what I put together of my photos from first contact to totality in South Central Indiana!
It was an amazing experience!
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Luckily, we live in the path of totality, so I got to sit out back and watch it... but I'm REALLY jealous of anyone at a Buc-ee's at any time! Nice pics!I ended up deciding on one location, spent the night, and woke up to skies that worried me. I went into chaser mode and drove to a more favorable spot.
I'm late to replying, but I was also in Maine and drove to totality. I actually spent the weekend in northern Aroostook with family, so didn't have to deal with eclipse traffic going up (just the extra round of snow Friday night that made travel challenging.) We watched from a very random spot away from the star park towns and it usually takes me about 3.5-4 hours to get home from there. It took a solid 8 on Monday. I've only been in that kind of traffic on Route 11 once before, when my trip home coincided with a Phish concert at Limestone. A cousin reported seeing 200 cars at the Katahdin overlook on 95 on his way up to the area on Monday. This is going to make my next trip there and back seem like a breeze!We were at 99.3% totality here in the Bangor, Maine area. DH went north to do some sciency-stuff with a spectrophotometer for the eclipse and the 2 hour drive took him over 3 hours, there was so much traffic! It's going to take him even longer to get home, he said. Here in Bangor it got pretty dusky, like right before complete sunset in the summer, and the temperature dropped by about 10 degrees. If you look at Shrfleen's pictures, above, we had much less sunlight than in the 4th picture but never reached the total ring of light in the 5th picture. I wish I could have gone with DH but it didn't work out- and now I have strep so I'm glad I wasn't away from home/on the road for 8.5 hours and counting! Even at "only" 99.3% totality, it was pretty awesome!