by Anura Guruge
on April 12, 2024
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I, of course, KNEW that traffic would be back — especially on the way back — BUT it exceed all expectations. IT WAS BAD. REAL BAD.
I was worried that traffic would be bad going UP. It wasn’t, other than for about 90 minutes, ahead of ‘Gorham’ where Rte 16 meets with Rte 2. It was just that junction. The rest of the time it wasn’t too bad. But, as I was driving up … and up … and up, I could see all the folks that were ALREADY there. So, I knew that they all had to leave. post eclipse.
As you know, I watched the TOTALITY from ‘Dixville Notch‘ (a place that I like).
A lot of people by me left RIGHT after the TOTALITY. I didn’t see the point in that — PLUS I wanted the entire experience. I waited till it was well and truly done. Then I tried to go back the same way I had come up, i.e, via ‘Errol’. Well, that didn’t work out. I turned back. Went to ‘Colebrook’. I had never been there. Some traffic getting there. I parked on the outskirts of town and walked in. I walked around and decided to have dinner there — at an American Chinese. It was OK. They were nice enough. I stayed there till 7pm THINKING traffic would thin out.
It didn’t.
I didn’t get home till close to 1am on Tuesday.
I had left at 8:40am on Monday.
But, it was well worth it. I would do it AGAIN. SMILE.
Feel bad for all of YOU who missed TOTALITY.
