See what I did there? This is a car forum, so I had to tie it in somehow.

We live in Lake Oswego (about 8 miles south of Portland, Oregon) and the totality line starts about 10 miles south, so early tomorrow morning we join 50,000,000 like-minded folks on the I-5 southbound. Will me make it to Salem? Who knows, but the further south we get the greater the obscuration.

I saw a near-total eclipse standing on the far corner (the elbow) of Cape Cod back in 1973. Not quite totality--no corona, but bizarre nonetheless, with shadow bands racing across the sand in the last few minutes.

Getting back on-topic, I'm sure the RX450h will make a fine eclipse car.

 

join 50,000,000 like-minded folks??? Recent census show Oregon has a little over 4.1 million people in the state.

 

it's light-hearted exaggeration. plus the census is irrelevant as TONS of people have come from outside the state to see it.

 

I was waiting for you rant about socialists, Venezuela and toilet paper . Don't get the tie-in about the RX450h. Do you expect it to run out of electricity at the same time it runs out of gas? Lol.

 

Isn't Volvo the official sponsor of the eclipse?

https://www.slashgear.com/volvo-turn...ewer-18495711/

 

riredale: Did you tint your windows to Number 14 welder's glasses standard, to allow you to see directly view the eclipse?

 

even this smart guy is just using his car and sunglasses

 

We're partly though the Eclipse now here in the NoVA D.C. suburbs......and I don't see any signs of the End of the World. Depending on who (or what) you believe, the Internet and YouTube had all kinds of videos and web-sites warning that this Eclipse would bring the end of civilization, a nuclear war, the Rapture, Christ's Second Coming, massive earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, Planet X/Nibiru crashing into or just missing the Earth causing pole-shifts, and/or the whole East and West Coast of the U.S. (and the entire state of Florida) being underwater.

Let's see how many of those sites and videos are still up and posted tomorrow morning.

 

Nothing can damage that ego.

 

Well, that was pretty cool. The Lexus got us there in fine fashion, we parked in a coffee shop parking lot in a town called Woodburn which was about five miles inside the totality boundary. Surrounded by a couple hundred folks who clapped and cheered when the sun just kind of winked out, to be replaced by this giant wispy halo. About a minute later the corona disappears as bright sun reappears. Then the RX450h took us home on a very busy I-5 northbound towards Portland.

I have heard of folks who travel the world for total solar eclipses. I think there are one or two such eclipses a year. It would probably be a lot of fun, since the eclipses would occur in all sorts of places.

 

Once upon a time there was light in my life, now there's only love in the dark. Nothing I can say, a total eclipse of the heart.

 

my bad. Sometimes it's hard to tell context of text hah.