I’ll be turning 70 a week later, and even though I realize there’s a good chance I may be clouded out, I will never forgive myself if I don’t at least try.

My Sister-in-law sent the glasses for my recent birthday, two pairs of nice plastic ones and a half-dozen cheaper cardboard ones just in case you need to pass them out.

Mrs. P and I both have family and friends in the SE so we’ll be down there, probably in North Carolina, on top of a Blue Ridge Mountain. While it will not be at totality at our intended viewing site (99.54%), it’ll be damn close and we’ll have a view of the shadow as it sweeps eastward over South Carolina’s piedmont and down to the low country. That, and we’ll not have to drive anywhere.

Here’s a nice little web page that shows how the eclipse will look from any location:

https://eclipsemega.movie/simulator

Also, NSAS’s interactive map is quite nice. Click on a point and you get all the info.

https://eclipse2017.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/interactive_map/index.html

Thinking of buying a 360 degree camera to film it for my mother so she can see it in VR goggles if she cant make it out to it…

I already got the glasses for my wife and myself: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008234JNQ/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1