We embarked today on a trip to see the eclipse. We’re in the line of partial eclipse but apparently 92% eclipse is significantly different in overall experience when compared to 100% eclipse. We’ve had reservations for something like eight months now in Charleston, South Carolina but the weather there turns out to be predicated at poor with cloud coverage. And if you haven’t checked out the sun before now, clouds make it hard to see the sun, particularly when the moon is planning on covering up the sun for an exciting three minutes.
So we changed locations and headed to Knoxville, Tennessee this morning. There have been warnings about traffic for weeks and I am one of those travel pessimists so I was expecting today’s travel to be a mess. But it wasn’t, which was nice. We also have an electric car that requires recharging from time to time and we happily ran into very open Tesla Supercharging stops so our two charging breaks were quick and without incident.
We arrived at our hotel to find the one charging spot available so we’re currently checked in and our car is charging up. We’ll move it once we’re fully charged so other cars can use it. We’re with a group of four families, one who also has a Tesla but he was much lower on charge and they’re moving his car to a faster charging location a few miles away. We’ll get his car after dinner sometime.
How did we get a hotel reservation at almost midnight on Friday night? Well, we’re not in the total eclipse zone; we’re a little over an hour away from it. But overall it works out as we’ll hopefully be able to find a place to eat easily tonight and tomorrow morning we’ll head out early having packed a picnic lunch.
One of the members of our group has been diligently scouting out the best locations for tomorrow meaning amenities and other things going on not to mention lack of clouds. Another one of the group is coordinating dinner for the thirteen of us to be had shortly so we can all go out to sleep early so we can head out first thing in the morning. And, to top it all off, one of our party members delivered two bottles of wine to our room which is where the pre-eclipse party is happening after dinner.
Tomorrow we will likely run into traffic on the way home and possibly on the way to the total eclipse zone. We’ll find out tomorrow.
The Big Boy Update: My son suffers from car sickness from time to time. Today while at our first charging stop we were beside a drug store and I asked the pharmacist if he was old enough for anything. It turns out there is dramamine for children and one grape-flavored pill later my son was fine the remainder of the trip. He doesn’t have issues often and it’s usually on longer trips after several hours but this time we were going through and over mountains and it was just too much for him. He held on to the airline sick bag for a while before we got the dramamine but afterwards he had a happy ride.
The Tiny Girl Chronicles: My daughter is most excited about the air mattress she and her brother will be sleeping on tonight. She is currently playing songs on her iPad and dancing around on the mattress.
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