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I recently booked a campsite inside totality, about 5 hours from here. Going down Sunday, coming back Tuesday.

When we went to see the last one, we did it all in one day. That was a mistake. Traffic on the way there was bad, traffic out after was horrible. If you have a plan to travel for this, it would serve you well to try and avoid having to travel back on Monday, unless you're already pretty close.

Edit: I'll also add - bring your own food and water for your whole trip; do not expect to be able to buy anything on the road, especially on the return trip. We stopped at the sketchiest Chinese restaurant I have ever seen, and they were out of rice.

They pointed out cities within 6 hours of the path of totality, but how far away from the totality can you be before you can't see the eclipse?

I now predict that moment will be very cloudy for my area.

I wish there was a better explanation of the color in the article. As I expected, Texas is last likely to be cloudy (and warmer than other options). It’s where I was wanting to go since the last eclipse, but now my stepdaughter is dealing with back problems and we might roll the dice on a shorter drive to Ohio or Indiana, if we can go at all.

Nice, I'm right in it! Time to get some glasses!

Our house will get about 90 seconds or so of totality, so I am really stoked that I get to see it but don’t have to make it a whole thing. Only thing I haven’t decided is if I’m going to try to muscle in on my kid’s elementary school events or grab her after lunch.