somewhere in the region of Escalante, Utah. Besides the normal
challenges of finding a place suitable for three big rigs to stop for a
night (or hopefully more) we were in a rush to find a place to catch a
FULL SOLAR ECLIPSE. I'm not sure if the eclipse was to be full on the
east coast where we are from, but here in Utah we had heard that it
might be. The time to find a good spot: 6:30 PM.
Unfortunately, the road we hoped would have great camping turned out to
be a long drive into nowhere and with (practically) no turn arounds. So
we stopped where we were and decided to deal with the campsite search
later, and direct our attention to making an eclipse-viewing station.
Revived with a slice of Auntie Jen's amazing gluten-free banana bread
and some "lil' smokies" sausages, we refined our
hole-punch-in-paper-sun-projection techniques.
Our efforts did not disappoint. The eclipse was full, and the kids
discovered all you have to do to project several images of the eclipsing
sun onto our camper is to hold your fingers close together and the gap
between fingers acts like a pin prick on paper. What an amazing
evening! And yes, we eventually found both a turn-around, and camping
location in a gravel pit (with a fire ring!)
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