I'm tentatively set to give it a try in the Greenville SC area, driving to there and having a motel reservation for the night of August 20.

Visibility is iffy in South Carolina, though, given the weather lately and the kind of summer it has been. Thanks to climate change there's more water vapor in the atmosphere and so far it has meant more rain and more overcast days than is normal (the more normal pattern is hotter, drier and hazy). Would be a bummer if that continues.

The WaPo had a good story today about how airlines are raising fares to cities near the eclipse path for that weekend

I still found semi-reasonables from ATL to DEN or SEA on F9, but then take a look at what the car-rental companies want from those airports that weekend...$100-ish A DAY. They're outdoing the airlines on raising prices.

Would guess that the most gung-ho people planned further in advance and are betting on places like Wyoming, where I'm sure all the lodgings near the path must be booked up. Would have been nice for F9 not to seasonally drop their ATL-MCI service on 8/15 , as that might have been a good option.

So I'm trying to do it on the cheap. The Lowe's near here had a few of the eclipse glasses but sold out almost instantly.