I drove from Fort Worth to Wyoming to see this and it was totally worth it. Took my 97 year old grandmother with us. She's such a trooper. My uncle lives in Laramie and I reserved all his spare rooms about a year ago for this. His kids all live in Denver and they drove up and camped at Glendo Lake in WY where we joined them Sunday night so as to not have to fight traffic Monday morning. Traffic in Wyoming? Yes! It took us 7 hours afterwards to make the 2 hour drive back to my uncles house. Still, it was well worth it.

I made a conscious decision to not take any photos of totality. There will be much better pictures than I could take online and I'd much rather just experience it instead of having my face stuck in a screen for that brief time. I did take a picture and video of the crescent tree shadows someone mentioned. That was very cool. Also, one of the guys that was with us got a great shot of the moment of totality. Here ya go:


Our group:


Tree shadows:

The tree shadows were the coolest part, outside of totality. Pre totality the crescents were one direction and then post totality they were the opposite direction. Very cool.

The 2024 one is coming directly over my house although I will be out on the edge a bit. I'll have to go somewhere to get as many seconds as possible of totality. Very much looking forward to it!

Some cool new stuff from people who were able to see the total eclipse


Your vid of what it was like in person turned out great imfake

And that sounds like it must have been so much fun to experience the eclipse with a large group of family marknfw - had seen a couple of pics of the crescents on the ground, but hadn't heard anything about the crescents being on one side before the eclipse and then changing side to the other side after the eclipse ... will have to be sure to stand near a tree in 2024 to catch that part of the experience as well


Also, thanks for the warning about the traffic - yikes!

Still sounds like it should be a cool experience overall. Guess we're pretty fortunate to have two good ones in North America in such a short period of time ... wasn't the one before this one like 40 years ago or something? Wonder when the one after the 2024 one will be?

Very nice vid. Would have been good if it had been a bit longer.

I get the excitement, but I feel like I'd be a little miffed by people hooting and hollering. Accounts I've read have talked about how eerily quiet it gets and crickets start chirping, etc. Hard to experience that when everyone's cheering.

Agree with this. A complete waste of the experience for anyone other than an extremely passionate photographer with top notch equipment and skills. And even then you can just use google and see someone else's pictures that would be exactly the same.