[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Maru

Thank you all. I'm just glad I had anything to share. We were not expecting there to be an opening.



I will. My daughter is too young to really remember this trip, but did lose her mind checking out the sun once everything blacked out. I'm thinking of framing with date/time and placing in her room. The weather was predicted to be cloud cover, but Dallas and its vicinity had a small chance of clearing based on some models, so we took to the highway and traveled while watching the radar. We stopped around the time it was beginning. We learned later we ended up on about dead center on the shadow line. It's a crazy coincidence because we were traveling on gut by that point. It was a mix of clouds through the partial and a clearing opened up during the full eclipse. Not a single bit of cloud cover in that period. Rightfully, the journey will be memorable for all of us. The traffic was tolerable also and no inclement weather though we were expected to run into a line of heavy storms otw back.



Yes and to think we (Earth) are actually rare in terms of witnessing such events. I can spend hours watching such things. There's something oddly calming about watching planets & moons traverse through a telescope.

….your daughter may not recall so many details that you would recall, because of her young age, Maru….but you’re giving her those detailed memories in how you’ve recorded it…?…she’ll know how special it was and how her parents drove on that road trip to be able to get those images and how they wanted her to be a part of the phenomenon, you know…?…so she kind of will recall it quite vividly in her memory stores, I feel…but in a different way to your recollections …and yes, frame all of those details for her room, together with your images and help her ‘complete’ her memories, which she’ll keep through adulthood and will always be a very special day with her parents……