How much do we love Kid Rock, with his belly hanging out, in the bed of Elon's Folly painted up to look like "General Lee" from "Dukes of Hazard," I guess? #chunderroad
"And on the eve of the great battle, the Roman Consul Flavius Prolixitus exhorted his legions with these words, 'blah blah blah blah blah...'" (for two or three pages)
Whereas Polybius:
"And he addressed them in words suitable to the occasion." (full stop)
Well, it's April 2024 and I feel it's time for me to admit to an unbroken 34 year long streak of a Politically Correct Gun Dog training method of not making any of my dogs pay for my personal failures by shooting them in the head.
How do I explain my path to clear skies under the moon's shadow, quickly? I probably can't...
Went with two bffs of mine. One of them, hard to get out of the house, this would be his first eclipse. My other friend has seen two with me already.
Knowing the weather in the eastern US in April, we expected a roll of the dice. We decided last year I'd fly to NJ, meet up with them (they're in NY and NJ, respectively), and drive to Memphis 2 days before the eclipse to be ready for anything.
The week before the eclipse, it was looking like the weather in Texas would be dicey, as would the northeast, except, strangely, for extreme north NY, VT, NH and Maine.
The Thursday before the eclipse we decided to ditch our Memphis plans and throw our lot in in the northeast. I flew into NJ on Friday, and we drove up to my friend's in upstate NY.
Sunday afternoon, the forecast for Plattsburgh NY and Burlington VT was starting to look a little sketchy. We decided to head out early (230 AM) for Plattsburgh on Monday morning, eclipse day.
Drove out early Monday morning. 6AM, an hour south of Plattsburgh, I looked at the forecast for Plattsburgh/Burlington and didn't like it. East of that looked better.
Vermont and New Hampshire don't have highways that allow easy east/west travel. They're kind of north/south states. I started looking at towns up in Canada, and found one, Magog, that looked like a good spot, and a fast path to get there. I Totally winging it. I had no idea what the town was like.
I told my friends “guys we're going to Canada today. Gonna be another two and a half hour drive”
After resolving a bit of an...incident…with my documentation at the border, we got into Quebec and to Magog at 930 AM. A jewel of a town at the top shore of lake Memphrémagog.