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Looking forward to y'all coming to see me on my 2017 Tour.

This year is very special. I've arrange for a full coast-to-coast tour, allowing my many fans the opportunity to see me in my full glory.

While most venues are sold out (have you tried to book a hotel room in one of my tour cities? You can't.) there are still many standing room only seats. And for those too cheap (or too busy) to come see the full show, most of you will get to see a pretty good sideshow from your own city.

I'm working with members of the, well I can't tell you because they are secretive about their powers, let's just call them "this group". Anyway, I'm working with this group to make sure the sky is clear on my entire route. They promise to make it rain in some areas the day before, to eliminate the atmospheric moisture that would tend to block my glory during my performance.

I hope to see you at the show! I know Cal will be there as I have a performance in his town. I'll also be in LB's town, but my performance is probably during his normal sleep time. I do hope he wakes up to watch. Holtdad will get good seats as well as I'm playing the full show in Lincoln. I'm a little disappointed with that Wellman chick as I planned 20 billion years to perform in Rigby, then she ups and moves to Alaska. I never go there.

For a complete list of venues and showtimes you can go here. You can also see the fabulous work my choreography team did. They prepared hundreds of animated shorts to help me get it right. Here is the animation for my side show in Gastonia. The WGAS crowd will be giving a s**t as I perform 98% of my show for them.


Oh, I almost forgot. To ensure my concession folks have enough trinkets and stuff on hand, could you please let me know if and where you will be watching my show? Supplies are limited but I want to make sure my Bored Buddies get the opportunity to buy some of my cheap crap.



I'm really sorry I couldn't book the great state of Texas on this tour, but I have managed two shows there in back to back years. One in 2023 and one in 2024. The 2023 show is a little ribald so you might want to cover your kids eyes as I'll be showing my anu..annular. I won't be fully covered as my friend the moon will be warming up for our 2024 Full Frontal show in Texas. BTW, TheConfessor has front row seats, though off to the side, for our 2024 show. I hope he comes and doesn't choose to scalp his tickets.

I booked my hotel rooms in Boise nearly a year ago. I'm planning to drive from there to Lime, Oregon. --Bob

I'll be looking out for you in S.C. Glad to hear about the good weather because it's a long trip for me.

I saw a 95% partial in NYC in 1970.

I'm flying to Denver the Friday before and spending the weekend with my daughter and her husband. Then we plan on leaving about 5:00 in the morning and driving to a good viewing spot in Wyoming or Nebraska (4 hour drive arc from Westminster, CO) depending on weather. I'm glad to hear you're working with "the group" to have clear skies everywhere.

Right now, I'm partial to watching at Glendo State Park in Wyoming. It is dead center for your show.


For my viewing, I made this purchase: Meade 10x50 EclipseView Binocular with Solar Filters. Cheaper than Amazon, no sales tax, free expedited shipping and a bonus of 5 free viewing shades, though it looks like the bonus shades no longer come free with purchase of the binoculars.

SolarEclipse wrote:I'll also be in LB's town, but my performance is probably during his normal sleep time. I do hope he wakes up to watch.

Well, since I've known about this eclipse since I was a kid, I certainly don't plan on missing it. I'm actually just a few miles north of the path of totality (if I looked at the map right last time I saw it), but that's good enough for me. We were directly in the path of the 1994 annular. Unfortunately, that's also the last time I saw the welder's lenses my Dad had that we used to not only look at the eclipse (Naysayers be damned!), but get a halfway decent video of it on our camcorder at the time (I still have the tape)...

lb13

I'll drive about an hour and a half north of Atlanta to watch in totality in Murphy, North Carolina

It's about a two-hour drive to the NE Georgia mountains where they will have a pretty good look at the eclipse. I'm thinking about going (we had an annular eclipse in 1984 that passed right over downtown Atlanta where I was working at the time.

littlebeast13 wrote: We were directly in the path of the 1994 annular.

I was living in Wichita at the time. We were on the edge of the max coverage band at 94% covered lasting about 2 1/2 minutes. I was unprepared for viewing just having to observe the darkness, taking quick 1/4 second looks at the sun, and listen to the confused birds chirping.

elwing and I are heading to Hopkinsville, KY.

I think I'm in the 80% area, and like for most celestial events, I'm sure it will be overcast and possibly raining that day.

There was one in about 1994 that was good conditions here, so that was a surprise.

The Motel 6 in Sidney, NE has a few rooms left. $1,008.00 for the night of the 20th.

They can turn the lights out. I'm not coming.

Burglars are going to hit the jackpot on that day.

I don't think posting your location here presents any risk, but I certainly wouldn't advertise on Facebook that I'm going to be away from the house and out of town.

bazodee wrote:Burglars are going to hit the jackpot on that day.

I don't think posting your location here presents any risk, but I certainly wouldn't advertise on Facebook that I'm going to be away from the house and out of town.

My wife, son, m-i-l, dog, and Beretta will be staying, so I'm not worried. But your point is valid. I council my kids on posting about vacation stuff, but most of the time we have a house sitter (for the pets) so the house is rarely left unattended. Plus my neighbors watch out for us as well.

Note: Within 2 days of my f-i-l's obit being posted, someone had replacement Chase credit card sent to the in Arkansas. So yes, the crooks are looking.

I'll be with BD and family in Fort Campbell KY, right in the path of near maximum totality duration and where SIL is currently based. Even if the weather doesn't cooperate for the eclipse, I still get a week with the grandkids. Can't lose either way. GW will be staying home with the four-legged children and our police officer neighbors.

On May 25 in the early afternoon, a friend posted on Facebook that she had known about this eclipse since middle school, and she was dismayed that she hadn't done anything at all in the intervening years to plan a viewing.

By the end of the day, a group of 14 friends had organized a Scrabble tournament in Nashville in the weekend leading up to the eclipse, a house had been rented through Airbnb for us all to stay and play in, beds and air mattresses had been allocated, eclipse glasses had been ordered, and most of us already had flights booked. If someone hadn't taken the initiative, I would definitely be on the outside looking in!

SolarEclipse wrote: I'm really sorry I couldn't book the great state of Texas on this tour, but I have managed two shows there in back to back years. One in 2023 and one in 2024. The 2023 show is a little ribald so you might want to cover your kids eyes as I'll be showing my anu..annular. I won't be fully covered as my friend the moon will be warming up for our 2024 Full Frontal show in Texas. BTW, TheConfessor has front row seats, though off to the side, for our 2024 show. I hope he comes and doesn't choose to scalp his tickets.

Aw, it's nice of you to think about me and want me to be there for your big day. I'll be spending a few days in Louisville, then driving a couple hours south to somewhere between Bowling Green and Nashville, where I should be able to experience nearly 2 minutes and 40 seconds of totality. I just hope for good weather. It will be a rehearsal for the 2024 eclipse in Texas, which will last more than 4 minutes. I already have my Celestron eclipse glasses.

I don't know why everyone thinks they need to go to Hopkinsville. It's near the point of maximum eclipse duration, but there are thousands of square miles that will have at least 2.5 minutes of totality. I know that lots of schools, churches, etc. in the path are taking paid reservations for their parking lots, and I think my sister already booked a spot in Hopkinsville so I might join here there, but really, you can go almost anywhere nearby for free and get the same or better experience. I think a lot of people are mostly looking forward to attending a big tailgate party.

SolarEclipse wrote: I hope to see you at the show! I know Cal will be there as I have a performance in his town. I'll also be in LB's town, but my performance is probably during his normal sleep time. I do hope he wakes up to watch. Holtdad will get good seats as well as I'm playing the full show in Lincoln. I'm a little disappointed with that Wellman chick as I planned 20 billion years to perform in Rigby, then she ups and moves to Alaska. I never go there.

I was wondering if this is true, that total eclipses never happen in Alaska. Apparently it's not true.
https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/que ... ar-eclipse

That's the only reason I'm sorry I don't still live in the Carolinas.

We booked a house in South Carolina for family coming in from all over the country. My grandfather took me to the total in Nova Scotia in 1972 and said the next one would be in 2017. I've been waiting 45 years fro this.

kroxquo wrote:My grandfather took me to the total in Nova Scotia in 1972 and said the next one would be in 2017.

You're so vain....

lb13

kroxquo wrote:We booked a house in South Carolina for family coming in from all over the country. My grandfather took me to the total in Nova Scotia in 1972 and said the next one would be in 2017. I've been waiting 45 years fro this.

I have personal knowledge that he was wrong. I saw the 1994 total solar from eastern Washington, not all that far (I'm guessing 150 miles or so) from where I'm hoping to see this one in three weeks. --Bob

Bob78164 wrote:

kroxquo wrote:We booked a house in South Carolina for family coming in from all over the country. My grandfather took me to the total in Nova Scotia in 1972 and said the next one would be in 2017. I've been waiting 45 years fro this.

I have personal knowledge that he was wrong. I saw the 1994 total solar from eastern Washington, not all that far (I'm guessing 150 miles or so) from where I'm hoping to see this one in three weeks. --Bob

The February 1979 eclipse was the last total over the US, and I think the one you were referring to. The 1994 eclipse was annular...

lb13

littlebeast13 wrote:

Bob78164 wrote:

kroxquo wrote:We booked a house in South Carolina for family coming in from all over the country. My grandfather took me to the total in Nova Scotia in 1972 and said the next one would be in 2017. I've been waiting 45 years fro this.

I have personal knowledge that he was wrong. I saw the 1994 total solar from eastern Washington, not all that far (I'm guessing 150 miles or so) from where I'm hoping to see this one in three weeks. --Bob

The February 1979 eclipse was the last total over the US, and I think the one you were referring to. The 1994 eclipse was annular...

lb13

That's correct. It was during my freshman year at college, which somehow I managed to confuse with my first year as a lawyer. --Bob

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I'll be near Pawley's Island SC. Schools in SC are closed that day