Hi!
We saw the eclipse. It was awesome. We didn't take any good photos.
We took the train to Salem at the crack of dawn. It was a beautiful day. There was an English family sitting across from us who were tackling their THIRD try at a cloudless experience of a total eclipse.
We tried to find breakfast, but the restaurant ran out of food. (There were a lot of people in Salem.) So we bought coffee and scones and planted ourselves in a little parklet. We tested our glasses. They were legit.
I had been kind of dubious about the utility of taking a day off work and schlepping to Salem, a town that is very pleasant but isn't exactly the stuff of exciting day trips, but I read something to the effect of "If you're anywhere near the totality, get your ass there, or you're an idiot," so I dutifully bought train tickets. It was worth it; I've seen a partial solar eclipse before, but I've never seen anything like the totality. My phone was not up to the task of photographing a hole in the sky, so you'll have to imagine it, or look at the bajillion excellent photos on the internet, or think back to your own memory of it.
These are the shadows. We kept going back to look at them, because I think they're such a cool part of an eclipse.
And then we went to a history museum and then we had a mediocre lunch (because all the good restaurants had hour-long lines) and then we went to the Capitol, because we were in Salem! And then we waited at the train station for our ride home, and Skipper fell asleep...
And then we went home. A good day.
We saw the eclipse. It was awesome. We didn't take any good photos.
We took the train to Salem at the crack of dawn. It was a beautiful day. There was an English family sitting across from us who were tackling their THIRD try at a cloudless experience of a total eclipse.
We tried to find breakfast, but the restaurant ran out of food. (There were a lot of people in Salem.) So we bought coffee and scones and planted ourselves in a little parklet. We tested our glasses. They were legit.
I had been kind of dubious about the utility of taking a day off work and schlepping to Salem, a town that is very pleasant but isn't exactly the stuff of exciting day trips, but I read something to the effect of "If you're anywhere near the totality, get your ass there, or you're an idiot," so I dutifully bought train tickets. It was worth it; I've seen a partial solar eclipse before, but I've never seen anything like the totality. My phone was not up to the task of photographing a hole in the sky, so you'll have to imagine it, or look at the bajillion excellent photos on the internet, or think back to your own memory of it.
These are the shadows. We kept going back to look at them, because I think they're such a cool part of an eclipse.
And then we went to a history museum and then we had a mediocre lunch (because all the good restaurants had hour-long lines) and then we went to the Capitol, because we were in Salem! And then we waited at the train station for our ride home, and Skipper fell asleep...
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| Keeping pedestrians safe in Salem apparently means making sure they don't get hit by... rollerblades. |
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