[KarlInOhio]

I got very lucky in 2017. I decided a couple of weeks before the eclipse to go see it. I found one hotel room south of Nashville (outside totality) for under $100 when every other room left was $300-500. Six hour drive there and the longest 12 hour drive back. Traffic was still jammed up crossing into Cincinnati at 2am from the eclipse traffic.

I'm aleady parked for the 2024 eclipse. :)

[HartleyMBaldwin]

My wife and I traveled from Arizona to Oregon for the 2017 eclipse. Stayed a night with my brother in Bend, then drove from Bend to Seneca (between Burns and John Day) the day before the event and camped out in the Malheur National Forest, up the gnarliest logging road I could drive in a Nissan Sentra. There were some clearcuts at the top of a ridge, and we had a very nice view of the total eclipse. Only one other person anywhere nearby.

I also saw a total eclipse in February 1979 in Oregon. I was very lucky to get to the only hole in the clouds for at least 50 miles in any direction, arriving no more than 10 minutes before the eclipse started. That was along the Columbia River, not far east of The Dalles.

I imagine we’ll see the 2024 eclipse somewhere along the track of totality, no idea yet where we’ll go.