“Totality!” the extraordinarily excited young man yelled in the park near the airport by the lake in Dallas on April 8th, 2024, somewhere we chose randomly because it was open, green, uncrowded and on the path of totality.
The Plan
In 2018, we had driven to Wyoming to be in the path of totality and loved it so much that we didn’t want to miss this one, which promised to be even bigger and longer than the last. Even Flora, who was 10 at the time and is now 16 and a very different human being, was willing to miss school and make the overnight journey. We almost didn’t go; it was all getting a bit too complicated. Eric attended a strawbale workshop all weekend at Canelo Project outside Tucson and we didn’t have someone to watch the dog. But, fuck it, we decided to make it work. My daughter and I flew in the night before and Eric flew in from Arizona in the morning to meet us, and w…
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