April 7th – 8th

I left Ann Arbor on Sunday April 7th and headed south to Ohio to watch the Total Eclipse. I had made a reservation at the Wyandot County fairgrounds in Upper Sandusky OH. It was in the middle of the eclipse path! Once I arrived I did some exploring: went to Indian Mill, a historical mill on the Sandusky River, then I drove around town and saw the Wyandot County courthouse and a lot of grain storage structures. The Midwest is known as the nation’s breadbasket.

On Monday April 8th, Nancy and Jeff drove down and we watched the eclipse together. They arrived after the eclipse had started, but got to see most of it. The air got cooler. The totality was from 3:11pm to 3:15pm, only about 4 minutes, but it was like a very fast sunset, darkness, then sunrise. The starlings in the trees got quiet as it got darker and cooler. Then they got noisy and the air warmed up as the sun came back! The sky gradually got brighter until the eclipse was over. The entire eclipse took about 3 hours. It was an amazing experience! This is something you have to experience in person. My camera wasn’t up to taking closeups of the eclipse, so I mostly just focused on being there. I wandered around the fairgrounds after Nancy and Jeff left and the saw some camels with a traveling circus that was parked there! Didn’t have my camera with me, darn! There had been a number of RV’s, tents, and folks watching the eclipse, but by the time I was ready to go to bed, there were only two tents and my RV left.

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