Chasing Shadows

Total solar eclipse

It’s been cloudy for eight days straight. According to the almanac, 90% of April 8th days in the White Mountains are cloudy. Today, it’s bluebird. Tommy Rosen once said to me, “How much more evidence do you need?”

I got on the road heading north on I-93. There was a big slowdown at the toll so I got off at the exit ramp to take back roads instead.

The intersection was gridlocked. I paid the toll to get off the highway, did a U-turn, and paid the toll to get back on.

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90 miles north, in the White Mountain National Forest, there was another epic traffic jam where the highway narrows to one lane to cut through the notch. So I got off and took back roads through the mountains—a scenic drive I’d never done. It was slow but pleasant. I put the Tesla on self-drive and filmed vlog, link at the end. 

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All this driving is to get to the path of totality of the solar eclipse in northern New Hampshire.

On the other side of the mountains, I found an Ocean State Job Lot. The …