It is 6:17 AM and there is already a stream of traffic heading north. I am just thankful that we didn’t do anything stupid yesterday and that the dog is not stressing out like he has in the past.
We are about 30 minutes south of Burlington in the middle of nowhere farm country and this is the traffic ahead of us. In the past half hour we’ve gone from an hour and 15 minutes to our destination to one hour to our destination. We keep passing through teeny town centers where the speed limit drops, and it ends up making slow moving standing waves of traffic
@BenHigbie Vermont is amazing and one of it’s beat visual features is one outsiders don’t notice, and don’t “get” until they really experience it with a little awareness of what’s happening.
@masukomi Wow what a great law, to not have billboards. I drove through part of Vermont once many years ago and I didnt notice that but now that you mention it I think that is what gives the state a different more pleasant ambiance or whatever. I like covered bridges too, my grandma loved painting them haha She liked visiting Vermont and photographing them to paint later.
There are, apparently a lot of really impatient assholes on the road. Be careful out there, folks.
One of them that nearly forced us off the road by not allowing us to merge when a lane went away just tried to pull around a semi, on the blind side of the hill, in a no passing zone when the truck is also in the same long line of traffic that we are.
@masukomi yikes! Driving far north I had a Volvo with MA plates trying to join our party by entering our car via the rear bumper but no other incident. Worried a little about trying to drive home, expecting that to be much crazier.
It was… dramatic. I have thoughts. The first of which is that 3 1/2 minutes is not nearly long enough to wrap your head around everything that’s happening.
@masukomi such a wonderful day. I’m grateful the clouds were thin enough to have no real impact on the experience, and that sun dog was out like all afternoon
@tsyum we were really worried about those clouds. I had read that thin Cloud cover like that shouldn’t be a problem, but I didn’t really understand why and thus I didn’t trust it, but then we started staring at the sun with eclipse glasses, and I understood.
“The sun is a mass of incandescent gas. A gigantic nuclear furnace.”
The Sundog was awesome, but where we were, you could only see it if you had sunglasses on or during a few minutes just before totality. :D
We left the house before dawn so my hat had not come out yet. But I am photophobic, and when we got out of the car, the world was far too bright. Eventually vendors arrived, and I discovered that one of them had a hat.
This is officially the stupidest and ugliest fitting hat I own. In its defense, it protected my eyes for multiple hours, and was worth every overpriced penny to me.
Eventually totality arrived, and I spent it looking slightly less stupid thanks to my ponytail holding the hat down, and slightly more stupid because of the eclipse glasses in front of my my glasses. I was in awe, and with an adorable “puppy” in my lap.
Spending an eclipse with a puppy and your lap sounds awesome, but if I’m honest, I forgot he was there because I was so blown away
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