{"id":5411,"date":"2017-08-22T13:51:46","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T19:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgs.com\/?p=5411"},"modified":"2017-08-22T13:51:46","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T19:51:46","slug":"totally-overwhelmed-by-the-total-solar-eclipse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bgs.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/22\/totally-overwhelmed-by-the-total-solar-eclipse\/","title":{"rendered":"Totally overwhelmed by the TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5412\" src=\"https:\/\/bgs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/eclipse-cci-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/>These days, everything is subject to being overhyped \u2013 cars, diets, clothing, the next snowstorm.\u00a0 When advertisers use words like \u201camazing\u201d, \u201cbreathtaking\u201d, and \u201clife changing\u201d we barely take notice.<br \/>\nBut having traveled to Nebraska to witness the total solar eclipse, I can tell you that those words, in all their glory, are not strong enough to describe the experience!<br \/>\nLast Friday August 18<sup>th<\/sup> we began our eclipse road trip. \u00a0Seven us (me, my parents, husband, niece, teenage daughter and her friend) took two cars and headed to the tiny town of Mullen Nebraska, located in the totality. We booked our three rooms at the Sandhills Motel in Mullen A YEAR AGO. \u00a0The drive was gorgeous, through the sandhills, and we were delighted with the folks in Mullen and the\u00a0small town&#8217;s events. We didn\u2019t stay in Mullen for the eclipse however, as the weather forecast on the day of the eclipse warned of 70{a0c01d20c42349884e67ff80c137866b0a9fe47aaae8f8a86a605a369ae487c3} cloud cover. So we hopped in our cars and drove west, following RVs and campers clearly headed the same way, out of the clouds and into the sun. \u00a0An hour later we turned off the little highway on to a dirt road that led to a park, and found a field with a few other cars parked on the edge. We unloaded, sat in the grass, and watched\u00a0the spectacle unfold. Through the safety of our eclipse glasses we saw the black moon slowly eat into the golden sun, an amazing sight! But nothing compared to totality.<br \/>\nEverything you heard was TRUE! If anything, the hype was insufficient to do the actual event justice. The air temperature dropped 15 degrees, and a wind came up. The sky darkened to such a deep navy blue that Venus brightened the noontime \u201cnight\u201d, and a ring of yellow and red (a shade I\u2019ve never seen) surrounded us on all sides, like an oddly colored sunset. The cattle in a nearby field rushed toward their shelter, clearly thinking it was night. The crickets chirped\u2026 and in the sky, a white ring of flames and dancing ribbons shone down on us, eliciting whoops of joy and tears alike! We stood there, almost euphoric, for 1 minute and 34 seconds just breathing it all in, jumping up and down, and sharing the moment with family and the few others in a perfect field in Nebraska.<br \/>\nI cannot describe it to do it justice. Let\u2019s just say we are already planning for 2024!!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5413\" src=\"https:\/\/bgs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/eclipse-group-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; These days, everything is subject to being overhyped \u2013 cars, diets, clothing, the next snowstorm.\u00a0 When advertisers use words like \u201camazing\u201d, \u201cbreathtaking\u201d, and \u201clife changing\u201d we barely take notice. But having traveled to Nebraska to witness the total solar eclipse, I can tell you that those words, in all their glory, are not strong enough to describe the experience! Last Friday August 18th we began our eclipse road trip. \u00a0Seven us (me, my parents, husband, niece, teenage daughter and her friend) took two cars and headed to the tiny town of Mullen Nebraska, located in the totality. We booked our three rooms at the Sandhills Motel in Mullen A YEAR AGO. \u00a0The drive was gorgeous, through the sandhills, and we were delighted with the folks in Mullen and the\u00a0small town&#8217;s events. We didn\u2019t stay in Mullen for the eclipse however, as the weather forecast on the day of the eclipse warned of 70{a0c01d20c42349884e67ff80c137866b0a9fe47aaae8f8a86a605a369ae487c3} cloud cover. So we hopped in our cars and drove west, following RVs and campers clearly headed the same way, out of the clouds and into the sun. \u00a0An hour later we turned off the little highway on to a dirt road that led to a park, and found a field with a few other cars parked on the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,11],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Totally overwhelmed by the TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE! - Barna, Guzy &amp; Steffen, LTD.<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bgs.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/22\/totally-overwhelmed-by-the-total-solar-eclipse\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Totally overwhelmed by the TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE! - Barna, Guzy &amp; Steffen, LTD.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&nbsp; These days, everything is subject to being overhyped \u2013 cars, diets, clothing, the next snowstorm.\u00a0 When advertisers use words like \u201camazing\u201d, \u201cbreathtaking\u201d, and \u201clife changing\u201d we barely take notice. 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