One week-plus until eclipse day; no traffic on 10 East, and a few folks I meet are still saying “what eclipse?” despite the growing media buzz. 

Sensational severe weather reports this week (“rotating supercells” the weathercasters like to say), and projected models hint at very ungood weather on April 8. I push on…after fifty days on the road I’m anxious to dock at the planned viewing site at a winery in Lampasas, no matter the weather.

Shoutout to whoever’s job it is at TxDOT to program the electronic reader boards along the highway in Texas. Today they say, “Every bunny drive egg-cellent and hippity hop safely down the road”.