{"id":30152,"date":"2017-08-22T20:58:17","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T03:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/?p=30152"},"modified":"2017-08-22T20:58:17","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T03:58:17","slug":"day-193-or-chasing-an-eclipse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/?p=30152","title":{"rendered":"Day 193, or Chasing an Eclipse!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toots and I left Great Falls on Sunday evening, and spent the night in one of the last rooms in Butte, MT. \u00c2\u00a0We were on our way to Idaho to see the Total Solar Eclipse. \u00c2\u00a0We would have stayed in Dillon, 60 miles closer to Idaho, but the only room I found there was priced at $1,000 for one night. \u00c2\u00a0We left our $172 Econlodge room in Butte very early Monday morning (21 August, 2017) to find a spot in Idaho.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Sunrise south of Dillon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Day1719301.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-30153\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Day1719301-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Day1719301-600x400.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Day1719301-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Day1719301-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Day1719301.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We found a spot, along with a bunch of other folks, about half way between Idaho Falls and Dubois. \u00c2\u00a0Toots started documenting the location&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Day1719302.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-30154\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Day1719302-400x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Day1719302-400x600.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Day1719302-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Day1719302-768x1152.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Day1719302.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Of course, she is wearing the latest in Solar Fashion&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Day1719303.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-30155\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Day1719303-400x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Day1719303-400x600.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Day1719303-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Day1719303-768x1152.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Day1719303.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">***<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Day1719304.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-30156\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Day1719304-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Day1719304-600x400.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Day1719304-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Day1719304-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Day1719304.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">On and off she stood watch from her favorite perch, the roof of My Honda Pilot.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Day1719305.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-30157\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Day1719305-400x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Day1719305-400x600.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Day1719305-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Day1719305-768x1152.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Day1719305.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">An eight photo panorama of where we watched the eclipse. \u00c2\u00a0That little white car on both ends was directly in front of us, and we watched from the back of the Pilot in the middle of the photo. \u00c2\u00a0Click it a couple of times to enlarge it; BACK to return here.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Day1719306.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-30158\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Day1719306-600x79.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"79\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Day1719306-600x79.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Day1719306-300x40.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Day1719306-768x102.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">~Curtis in Idaho! {!-{&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toots and I left Great Falls on Sunday evening, and spent the night in one of the last rooms in Butte, MT. \u00c2\u00a0We were on our way to Idaho to see the Total Solar Eclipse. \u00c2\u00a0We would have stayed in Dillon, 60 miles closer to Idaho, but the only room I found there was priced 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