Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2023 12:10:06 -0800
Reply-To: David McNeely <davmcneely40@GMAIL.COM>
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From: David McNeely <davmcneely40@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Great American Eclipse, Monday April-8-2024, mid day in Texas
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Another point is that unlike in some other localities, in Texas the eclipse
path is near and over the major cities and large towns. About 20M people
live within 50 miles of totality. All public campgrounds and parks will be
absolutely crammed with people. Anyone who wants to use a public camping
facility better take heed to get things set up well ahead of time.
On Sun, Feb 12, 2023 at 11:57 AM David McNeely <davmcneely40@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Here is the list of all Texas towns showing eclipse times, durations of
> totality, start, finish, and so on.
>
> https://eclipse2024.org/communities/USA/states/Texas/
>
> With the list, a map, and various camping lists, one should be able to
> come up with a planned locality to visit. I have lots of relatives in the
> path of totality, and have already received offers of hosting in their
> homes. I will figure out by this summer what I plan to do, but camping is
> definitely a preference right now, and a meetup with Vanagon owners sounds
> good. "Off the grid" camping is not as easy in Texas as in most places,
> due to lack of BLM and FS lands. State parks, Corps of Engineers sites,
> Caddo National Grasslands near Bonham are possibilities. Private
> landholders are likely to open up for a fee, of course.
>
> mcneely
>
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2023 at 12:24 PM Tom Neal <tneal4242@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The Total Solar Eclipse in Madras Oregon was the fastest most interesting
>> 3 minutes of my life. Completely weird and completely worth it. Spooky.
>>
>> Vanagon camped at a nice lady’s farm she set up for about 50 people on
>> top of a rounded hill.
>>
>> Before and after, a white plate on the shade side of a bush will show
>> crescents made by the pin holes in the bush. We set up a telescope to
>> project the crescent onto people’s shirts and took lots pictures on their
>> cameras.
>>
>> Live in CA, but grew up in Austin so have friends who want to do it on
>> April 8, 2024. Enchanted Rock, Guadalupe Bend State Park, and Canyon of
>> the Eagles look right on the track. The closer to the track center, the
>> better.
>>
>> If someone comes up with a good campground, would be fun to hang out
>> Sunday to Tuesday.
>>
>> Tom
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