Day 8

 Day 8

Today we traveled from Joplin Missouri to Columbus, Ohio, a total of 693 miles.


We tried all day yesterday to get solar eclipse glasses because we were going to be entering the totality zone at the right time. We had no luck, everyone was sold out. we started calling stores at 6 AM this morning and finally found a Staples in Rolla, Missouri that had a few dozen. They agreed to hold 3 pairs for Karl until we arrived 2 hours later. When we got there they had our glasses waiting for us (the last 3 pairs in the store). After the purchase we walked back to the truck and the ladies in the car next to us asked if we got the glasses in the Staples. They were in there before us and were supposed to have some saved for them but they didn't get theirs. We are guessing that they didn't leave a name for holding them or the lady in the store just liked Karl's voice better. We drove as fast as we could to get to little gas station in Montrose, Illinois for the viewing. It was quite an experience, we had 1 minute of totality at that location. The pictures did not come out real good from our phones.




Look closely to see a star in the upper left corner and one in the lower right corner of the picture.

We traveled through St Louis and got to see the famous arch, but didn't have time to stop or
we would have missed the eclipse.










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