Solar Eclipse 2017

Baker City, Oregon

8/21/2017

The summer of the Solar Eclipse where the path of totality would travel across America. We wanted to see what the fuss was all about and decided to make the trek over from Seattle to Baker City, Oregon. We'd hopefully avoid some crazy traffic coming back from Portland and have a higher chance of clear skies inland. We prepared for this trip like it was a mini-apocalypse; including food and water for three days, a gas container, toilet paper, and most importantly, a poop bucket.

We started our road trip heading over to Kennewick (4 hours east of Seattle) where we booked a hotel to rest for a couple hours. The plan was to take Nyquil and sleep at like 6pm and be back on the road by 3am to make it to our destination at the Oregon Trail Interpretive Center. We arrived around 5am with a parking spot secured!

The drive back probably took 8 hours with traffic not being too terrible (only two or three areas of merging due to road work). All of this effort for 1 minute and 20 seconds of totality was absolutely worth it. No picture will capture what it truly looked like in person. The moments leading up to it are surreal and things somehow look sharper in the light. Might just have to see it again in 2024.