Bachman Lake Park borders the airport, but there's no access. The only exit from Love Field is out the opposite side to Mockingbird Ln, which makes it about a 4 mile walk. I guess take the airport shuttle to the DART station, then you can ride from there to Bachman or another park.

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small adjustments have come out thst can adjust the edges by about 1,000 ft or so in being inside vs outside totality.

thus can affect fringe locations with viewing parties.

for example montreal olympic stadium which appeared to be just inside is now just outside.

If the current forecast holds, and it's admittedly still early, I doubt I'll be coming to Texas after all.

I bought UA LAX-IAH. Now looking at BOS <$200 fare diff. Plenty of rooms and cars.

If you book a flight on say Saturday to a place like dc that is far enough outside totality to not have a car shortage/ high rates like Louisville, cincinati, pittsburg, Detroit, etc, but it gives you a day+ to drive into totality area with a better idea.

Probably for the best. Houston is outside of the area for the eclipse; I'm sure you'll get a dusk-type effect, but definitely not a total eclipse. The roads between Houston and areas with the total eclipse will be bumper-to-bumper. Heck, US-290 between Houston and Austin is like that most weekends anyway.

I bought IAH but wasn't staying there. SAT and AUS were already double the price when I bought in late Dec. Cars were scarce at SAT and AUS but were widely available at IAH.

Now I changed to BOS for $160 and can't change back to Texas without paying a lot more.

Most of Texas and northeast into the Mississippi valley is looking like a bust in terms of weather for Monday. Even Great Lakes is looking dicey. I might change plans to somewhere in OH and drive around but probably will cancel altogether.

I have flights to DFW. Was planning to watch from near DFW. If the forecast shows a mostly cloud-free area within driving distance (southern IL/IN), then I'll drive to wherever it's clear. I also bought a fully refundable flight to BOS on the afternoon of 4/7; this is the contingency plan in case the weather does not cooperate all the way past Indiana. Would probably watch from VT or ME which are showing clear forecasts right now but of course that could change. That area costs about a full minute of totality so it's not something I want to do unless it's absolutely necessary (but it's better to see a 3 minute, 20 second eclipse than to miss a 4 minute, 20 second eclipse!). There also aren't very many roads along the path of totality for escaping clouds so if I go up there I'd better be darn sure that it's going to be clear.

I don't know about that. It took me nine hours to drive the 102 miles from Glendo to Cheyenne Wyoming on I-25 after the last one. Rest stops were backed up for miles and with no bushes or trees in sight, poor old ladies were squatting behind car doors for bathrooms. Men had it a little easier.

In a giant "BOOOO" moment, clouds threaten Texas eclipse viewing.

We're visiting friends in Georgetown and in Camp Wood--the latter where we planned to watch the eclipse. We're on standby to see if we have to drive elsewhere in the area (hoping not) or if that will even be an option. A few years back, we had clouds just before totality in Nashville, then clear skies around the sun for the duration of totality... whereas other friends across town saw nothing as they were completely under cloud cover.

I'm personally hoping the front doesn't stall out over southern Texas. Guess we'll know more as the weekend draws closer...

We have tickets on a flight to DFW monday morning, returning monday night. Fully refundable, and no hotel or car cancellation dates to complicate things so go/no-go decision will be Sunday night.

So rooting hard for a change in the forecast! Although my bank account would maybe okay if we end up canceling :)

You're going to jinx it for everyone by talking about it !!!

Hey, you're in my neck of the woods. I just swam at the Georgetown Rec Center this morning :)

If you want decent Mexican, try El Monumento. Nice patio with views of the San Gabriel River. Monument Cafe (same owner) is good for breakfast/lunch.

Clouds at my house in South Austin this morning. Sun seems like it is trying to fight through though

I've cancelled my trip due to weather in DFW during totality and trying to get out. I've seen two total solar eclipses (spectacular) and optimistic I'll see another. Best of luck and clear skies to everyone traveling to see it.

The clouds gave way just in time in Idabel. The viewing of the total solar eclipse was a success.

I stayed overnight at a Tru by Hilton in Longview, which was out of the path of totality. I drove due north into Oklahoma. I parked on a dead-end street in Idabel and watched.

Hope everyone had a great time!

We were in our backyard...kind of between Round Rock and Georgetown. Similar to Canarsie, it was cloudy, then about 10 minutes before the clouds magically opened up and we were able to experience it!

Here's a few pictures... it got dark enough that the solar lights in our yard came on for a bit. Got very quiet, the birds stopped chirping. Then a dove started cooing right as it started to get light again.

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Alvarado, TX was spot on about 5-min before totality, as well. Glad we made the trip.

A Teddy eclipse of the sun.

How was traffic? I was looking at some of the Texas DoT cameras, and it seemed to be free-flowing not too long after totality.

I just walked around Uptown Dallas but traffic seemed normal before and after totality. And nonexistent within about 5 minutes either side of totality. The clouds parted at just the right moment here in Dallas. Last hourly observation before I started walking around the neighborhood 3200' broken, 25000' broken but at just the right time us Dallasites we were treated to CAVOK and a stunning unobstructed view of totality.

There was almost none before the eclipse. We went into Georgetown earlier and the roads were nearly empty. Even the I-35 looked dead, which is rare. I'm looking at traffic from Marble Falls, where they had max totality, back into town and it is about normal.

I did see some pictures of Barton Springs, and it was busy. But right now (6pm local time), the MoPac / TX Loop 1 is blue, which is nearly unheard of for a Monday at this time.

While we were outside, we could hear many neighbors outside. I think most people just stayed home.

Traffic in Waco seemed…. Much ado about nothing. Our friend drove to dfw after eclipse and was fine. He said today was a no school day so much less traffic. Maybe more people cancelled their travel?!?!

I posted on usa / Omni - Waco hotel was great for viewing and indeed clouds disappeared or at least stopped blocking the sun so that we enjoyed our 4 minutes of totality. I removed my eclipse glasses and filmed the totality.

wearing eclipse glasses and looking into the sky has made me feel like the days of dilated pupils after the ophthalmologist. Plus sluggish. We had a late 4:30p Linner. I’m in pjs and seeking a nap at 6:30. Our flight home is 10p Tuesday out of dfw because it was cheaper than flights before 10p. There might be WX yet only change options are connections. We will take our chances.

yes so totally worth it all and we did do other great things since 4/1 so clouds weren’t going to ruin anything for me.

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Clouds parted well enough at Inks Lake for a fantastic view. So much better than in 2017. Traffic was backed up heading east on SH 29 towards Burnet, and police were wisely directing traffic at the main intersection, but it opened up after that. No catastrophe like others experienced in '17.

Addison area of Dallas was clear skies until about 30 minutes before totality. Mostly cloudy after that, but enough breaks that we probably saw close to half of the 3.5 minutes of totality/ring of fire. Headed to the airport about a half hour after, no traffic at all until we got to the DFW rental car return ramp.

(Crazy lines for the rental shuttle for anyone trying to get to A,B,C terminals, and the E precheck line was almost 20 minutes, but we're home now.)

We had a lot of clouds in Austin but we got enough of a gap to see totality with the naked eye.

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I had absolutely no problem arriving to and departing from the total solar eclipse.

Traffic was no worse than usual. That is a first for me.

Traffic in Waco also seemed easy. Our hotel was near a body of water and sparse so we didn’t feel the need to drive anywhere. I have some friends in Dallas & Austin who mostly had few cloud issues. Definitely good to fly out here for this. Now it’s ultra stormy so the drive / flight with dfw tonight can be a challenge. We booked dfw because it was cheaper than aus.

I've only been to Waco (other than passing through or stopping for gas) once, and was surprised how nice it is. They have cleaned up the riverfront and there are restaurants, hotels, and other shops very close.

we went to the Dr Pepper museum after luncheon at Magnolia - wow.

I escaped DFW and went to BOS, then drove to Newport, VT. NWS was saying that east of the Green Mountains would be mostly clear while places west would have viewing obstructed by high clouds. Saw totality near the lake. Traffic was awful though, similar to Chile in 2019. The federal government should revoke funding for I-93 given that I-93 has a section where there's only 1 lane in each direction (a violation of Interstate highway standards) and this caused a massive traffic jam. I waited for 5 hours in Newport for the traffic to clear and left at 8:30 pm but still didn't get back to Manchester, NH until 1:30 am. That time, I specifically avoided I-93 due to the one lane segment but there were jams all the way down I-91 and I-89, including some stop and go traffic after 1 am.

So glad that the clouds parted for our many FTers in TX. Our friends down at Camp Wood didn't get an awesome view, but they were mostly happy. And we don't second guess heading out to cut the risk of not seeing it (we went to Canada, leaving TX on Sunday morning)... where we encountered groups who'd driven hours to escape clouds in NY (a friend who stuck it out in the ROC area saw zip but cloud cover for the entire eclipse).


Similar for us; we flew to BTV, hung out Sunday afternoon, then drove to YUL to stay with friends there (as there was zero chance we were going to pay $1k+ for a single night of hotel in BTV or nearby). After that, we drove east, intending to get to Sherbrooke or somewhere near it, but traffic was awful. We bailed out in Granby, Quebec, and sought out a big box store parking lot. A group with a professional astronomer and a ton of gear saw us setting up and pulled in next to us (same deal on their plans), and we had a great time.

But that drive back... ugh. Sounds like you were in the same traffic we were. The border crossing took ~2 hours (really, CBP?) and was backed up miles. Then there was a broken down semi on I-91 (~1 hour delay). Then... I had forgotten that Franconia Gap on I-93 narrowed down to 1 lane each way. That was on me, as I'd have stayed on I-91 or I-89 and ignored GPS had I remembered that fact from prior trips down that stretch. Google, lacking accurate traffic data due to spotty cell coverage, kept routing everyone off of I-93 onto NH back roads, which was a horrible mistake. We started ignoring it after the first 2 hour diversion that was only supposed to be a "7 minute delay" vice "37 minutes" on I-93. At one point, right outside the Franconia Gap, Google actually told us to get off onto NH 18, use it to essentially make a U-turn (transferring onto I-93 northbound), then backtrack, get off onto NH 116 (which we'd already sat on for 2 hours), and follow it eventually to NH 18... where it would merge back onto I-93 literally at the exact interchange it wanted us to exit from I-93 south! That would have been a 3+ hour freaking loop that bought us nothing at all but more frustration.

What should have been a 4.5 hour drive to BOS from Granby turned into 12.5 hours. Once we cleared the Franconia Gap, it was smooth sailing at 80mph all the way to Logan, though thank goodness for speed trap alerts (there were tons). We made it to BOS at 4:45am for our 5:45am departure, driving all night, and as far as I know, there's still people stuck on the backroads of NH 116 and 414 and whatever other barely-paved routes Google and Apple were sending people.

Sorry to divert from TX eclipse viewing with that mini rant... kind of glad to hear from someone else who got stuck in the cluster that is NH DOT's management of their highways.

It was a tough call for sure -- I had refundable same-day flights to/from DFW for my son and I. It came down to deciding whether I'd feel more foolish spending a whole day and <more than I'd usually consider> just to go sit in a cloudy soup, and possibly getting stuck in the rain/thunderstorms/hail that were being predicted, or if I'd feel more foolish if I canceled and it turned out halfway decent. With no guarantee that any attempt to see a future one would go better. If we'd seen one before it would probably have tipped the other way, but we decided to go, and are very very glad we did. Ended up watching from the Dallas College North Lake campus in Irving. The view of the sun was mostly clear throughout; a few brief cloud interruptions during partial, and a full view of totality. There were some high level clouds that show up more in pictures than in real life, but they didn't really detract IMO.

Traffic didn't look too bad in the DFW area when I looked out of curiousity. I suspect a lot of people changed their destination, and a lot in the area stayed home. For us, no wait for DART in either direction. TSA pre-check had a line and took ~15 minutes, but I was prepared for much worse.

My family canceled IAH flights/car and AUS hotel and paid the difference for BOS, and also drove up I-93 a few miles into QC, and came back across Derby Line, VT by 4:30 pm. Data jam as expected, we went down to St. Johnsbury and split off to I-93 by 7 pm, then the nightmare began.

Franconia ran out of gas, and had traffic jams all around town. NHDOT closed both Franconia exits, and trapped us on I-93 for hours, moving at below 1 mph. Countless people walked into the roadside darkness due to bladder pressure, but if their car continued moving and they lost sight of their driver, they'd have no way to make a call! We couldn't exit into Franconia to make a u-turn to go back north! Having been trapped from 7:30 pm to midnight moving barely 3 miles, we made an "unauthorized" u-turn across the police/tow truck turnaround spot (amazingly nobody did) and covered our last 4 hours in 4 minutes! Onto Littleton's 24-hour gas station's bathroom, we went over to I-91 to Lebanon, I-89 to Concord and back to I-93, and reached Bedford, MA at 4 am. Had we stayed on I-93, it would've been another 2-3 hours, as we saw on Google Maps the red section slowly shifted southward and finally went orange at 4 am.

NHDOT telling people to stay on I-93 was simply creating potential emergencies--medical, fuel, mechanical, etc. By 8-9 pm we figured the post-eclipse mobile data jam was over everywhere, and the thousands of cars in Franconia had no or spotty or unusable data and phone ability was just because of overcrowding. This was dangerous.

For the beer drinkers here, Austin Beerworks, Meanwhile Brewing, and Zilker Brewing came up with a beer commemorating the eclipse. I saw it at the store tonight and it's actually pretty good.
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Lol I've been annoyed for a few days but okay now. Congrats to everyone who gambled and won. Luxor on 8/2/27 here I come!

Hope nobody here was/is trying to fly Southwest out of AUS, seems they are having/had a meltdown over the last 2 days with 3+ hour long bag drop lines stretching down the airport access road

Most of the places we got eclipse beers from (including Meanwhile, which we got in a crowler since they weren't doing the actual can art until Monday, along with Four Quarters and Foam in VT) made IPAs. The eclipse Zilker we picked up was a Mexican lager.

No one seemed to think doing stouts was the right call for an eclipse? I saw Great Lakes was advertising a stout, but it was one of their regular lineup and not a special edition beer.

I had no idea that each brewery did their own as well. I assumed that this collaboration was the only one from them