Corona and I travelled 3800 miles over 7 days with 60 hours in the car to get to Conway Arkansas and back to see her eponym.
With the addition of my photography gear, we had a lot to unload and load from the car at every hotel. Cory developed a system.
We were prepared to flee the clouds on eclipse day, but I decided to polar align the mount the night before just in case we stayed put. There was a field next to the hotel parking lot. We ended up staying, and 30 people or so joined us in the field. The NAM, Euro, and HRR models had the cirrus clearing before totality, but things still looked dicey after first contact.
As usual, things got a bit flustered before totality. I forgot to get my distance glasses ready. I misplaced my binocs. Cory asked if we had eclipse glasses with pinholes in the cardboard, but I didn’t have those. It reminded me I _did_ have something from a previous eclipse though.
With a few minutes to go I remembered to get the mylar filters off the cameras and start the camera scripts. And then it started.
Scott's Sky Shots 