In 1989 we began planning our first total solar eclipse trip. It's easy enough to do long range planning and at the time saw the date for the 2017 total and Wyoming, that looked good. The next was 2024 and through Texas that looked good too.
Thing was we didn't know the odds of us living long enough to see 2024 let alone travel to it!
This will be our 5th total if the skies cooperate, but it's not looking good for most of Texas. Which is a shame for such a large population.
If you have never stood near the center line of a total solar eclipse for a perfect 360° twilight with critters going to roost and the sun's corona streaming out in all directions, some shimmering and mesmerizingly long, well it is impossible to tell another what that is really like.
And then you think of all the billions of humans to ever walk this planet, and practically NONE of them have ever seen the suns corona. Even during the 20th century when scientists were learning about the sun practically no one saw it!!
At Cabo San Lucas, Baja peninsula Mexico in 1991 we had our Corona beers for celebration. "See a Corona have a Corona!" Almost 7 minutes of the suns corona, near record length. (Astronomy club folks
are easily amused and get tipsy easy and are wowed by what nature offers)
I almost bought Corona yesterday but when in Rome: