Make sure you get to Total eclipse area. Only then you can see the corona and all the effects. Absolutely different from partial eclipse!
Try to get closer to the center of the eclipse path.
At the edges, the totality could only last like few seconds.
The best place to see the eclipse is the park in Eagle Pass, TX where there is the barbed wire conflict between FEDS and Texans.
The illegals will get the best view!
True. During the 2017 eclipse, one of my brothers was living just outside the path of totality, where the eclipse was something like 90%. He'd only have had to drive maybe 100 miles to be well within the zone of totality, but he didn't want to bother. My wife and I drove more than 1,000 miles each way to see the total eclipse, and it was well worth it.