Where did you end up watching?
I was about 15 miles northwest from John Day, dead center.
I went to the Painted Hills to reconnoiter on Sunday and hiked around there. LOTS of people. Spent the night in the hills to the south and on Monday morning went back to Painted Hills. It was even more crowded, so I drove further north on the dirt road and eventually wound up on a hill above the John Day River in the middle of nowhere. It was really cool because there were about 30 people up there, all strangers, who had happened to come together there. Great group of people. The viewing was spectacular because the eclipse came in from the west up the river valley. I couldn’t have found a better viewing spot. It was maybe 3 miles north of the totality line.
It was the most amazing thing ever, wasn’t it?