The Peavy Family Blog: Total Eclipse

We woke to drizzle and fog in Brewster so we had breakfast and headed west and then headed south and ended up in Tryon, Nebraska which was right on the center path of totality (and had been preparing for two years). We set up camp on a road on the edge of town and it was a wonderful experience. The kids played Molkky on the sandy road, we played music, we hung out and some explored the town a bit and kept our eyes on the progress of the eclipse. As totality approached, it got cooler, the wind picked up, and it got darker. And then it got eerily dark. We split a beer and toasted the eclipse. Street lights came on. D-man pointed out Venus. Bugs were chirping. We got to look right at the sun without our glasses. And then 2 minutes and 30 seconds later, it was over. So quickly. Too quickly. The minute the sliver of sun came through, it was bright. T-man requested "Here comes the Sun."

And then we packed up and headed home - with a stop at Runza, of course. We hit some traffic in Arthur (and it felt like we were going through a parade waving at the townspeople) and then again on the Colorado border and as we entered the Denver metro area (both of which were due more to road construction than traffic). As I'm writing this (at 10:00 at night), I25 coming down from Wyoming is still a parking lot - so glad we didn't take that route!

I'm so glad we went. It was a trip I will never forget and I hope one the boys won't forget. It was made even more special as the event was in small town Nebraska.

There is no place like Nebraska.