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[Eric Berger] Seeing this eclipse is probably the highest-reward, lowest-effort thing one can do in life (arstechnica.com)
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[โ€“] Green13@lemmy.zip 38 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

If you waited to start planning until now it'll be the hardest thing you've ever done.

[โ€“] xpinchx@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago

Yep. Anyone reading this that was planning on driving home right after - do yourself a favor and find a place nearby to stay the night.

Last time my 4 hour drive out was 17 hours back home. Gas stations out of gas, no bathrooms, bumper to bumper the whole way.