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This is wild, Jason! It was your writing in 2017 that partly inspired me to want to see this eclipse. I can't believe you get to see it just by staying home! Unfortunately, things didn't work out this year, but planning a big trip to Morocco for 2027. May you have sunny skies!

That's amazing that it's at your house, after all the running around for 2017. It's like you're being rewarded for all that effort!

We truly lucked out with our location and weather for 2017, and were so blown away by how truly weird and spooky it was (plus the NWS plane broke the sound barrier over us, a weird bit of timing that briefly made me think "is that the noise it makes??!!" haha) that we convinced friends to join us for this one, and will be somewhere near Austin, TX. Can't wait to share the experience with new people. This is me recommending to anyone who can travel to see it, to make the effort. It's worth it!

Fingers crossed for clear skies in VT on April 8th! Will be heading up to see this one for sure… 2017 in Idaho was amazing.

For anyone who hasn't experienced the phenomenon, Annie Dillard's 1982 essay "Total Eclipse" (gift link) will whet your appetite.

In 2017, we were driving to the west coast to deliver our daughter for her first year of college, and had planned to include the eclipse in our itinerary. We watched it from a Nature Conservancy property southwest of St. Louis, MO, on a hilltop with an expansive view of the landscape; looking to the western horizon, we could see the edge of the day.

When we arrived at the reserve, the shoulders of the two-lane road were already parked up in both directions. I pulled into the front drive of a mobile home across the road, got out, and knocked on the door. A sleeping-looking guy answered my knock. "Could we park here to watch the eclipse?" I asked him. "What eclipse?" he replied. I gave him twenty bucks and we hiked off up the hill. When we came back, his front yard was full of cars, and a hand-lettered sign on the mailbox said, "ECLIPSE PARKING $30." He'd gone from "what eclipse?" to eclipse entrepreneur in less than the time of totality.

Even if you can't make it to the path of totality in April, make sure to look at the dappled light under a tree while the moon is transiting the sun. It will change the way you look at light through the trees.

Also in the path of totality here in Syracuse! And the path of frequently cloudy skies. It's 50/50. NASA is doing a big event at Niagara Falls, which will be amazing. New York State put out a wonderful/hilarious eclipse poster that I would 100% hang in my house.

Saw the 2017 eclipse from a mountain pass in the Wind River Range, WY -- blew my mind. I kept telling myself this year that I've already experienced it and I don't need to come up with some crazy plan... but now my credit card is maxed and my daughter and I are heading to Mazatlán. Good luck, Kottke-ites!

My wife and I saw the 2017 eclipse in a farm field in Missouri and vowed to get to every eclipse we could from then on. We're traveling to Carbondale, IL for this one, reserved rooms almost a year ago, and got the last ones at that hotel. We're bringing our moms along, they've never seen one!

We've got family coming to our house to see it- just a hair nervous about weather. I just remind myself that no matter what it's not a total wash if they travel thousands of miles and only get to hang out with family.

What a stroke of luck to have totality at your home! I was on holiday in St Ives in Cornwall in August 1999 for the only total eclipse visible from the UK between 1927 and 2090. It was overcast with light rain, and still magical as the sky turned an uncanny greyish-brown and there was a noticeable increase in birdsong.