What Are Your Travel Plans for the Eclipse?

What you’ll see when you look up during a total eclipse.

On Monday, August 21, 2017, a 2,200-mile-long, coast-to-coast swath of the United States stretching from Lincoln Beach, Oregon, to Charleston, South Carolina, will experience a total solar eclipse, when the moon completely blocks out the sun and only the sun’s corona is visible. As the moon casts its shadow, midday darkness ensues, if only for just a few minutes (or seconds).

This, as they say, is a Big Deal — one of nature’s true wonders, the stuff of myth and memory.

The last time a total solar eclipse crossed the entire continental United States was in 1918 — almost a century ago.  (There have been several other instances where total solar eclipses could be viewed in certain regions of the country — the last in 1979, when only Washington state, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and North Dakota were treated… Continue reading →