Total Solar Eclipse 2017: How To Beat The Crowds & Get The Best View - The Only Complete Traveler's Guide

By James Burton Anderson

Total Solar Eclipse 2017 - How To Beat The Crowds & Get The Best View - The ONLY Complete Traveler's Guide lists dozens of little-advertised hamlets directly within the center of totality, offering the longest possible degree of totality. In addition, it is the only guide that outlines thousands of miles of Interstate, State and Local Highways that lie within the desirable "two-minutes-of-totality" zone.

• Language: English
• Publisher: James B Anderson
• Release date: Aug 8, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370412280

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TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE 2017

How To Beat The Crowds & Get The Best View

THE ONLY COMPLETE TRAVELER’S GUIDE

By: Dr. James Burton Anderson

Copyright 2017 Lions Pride Publishing, Amado, Arizona

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All rights domestic and international reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without express written consent from Lions Pride Publishing. A reviewer may quote brief passages if proper credit is given. Nor may any part of this book be stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form by any means without written permission from Lions Pride Publishing.

CONTENTS

DISCLAIMER

DEDICATION

CHAPTER ONE: CRITICAL SUN VIEWING CAUTION

CHAPTER TWO: A KID’S DREAM

CHAPTER THREE: WHAT’S GOING ON UP THERE?

CHAPTER FOUR: YOUR FIRST CRITICAL PLANNING STEP

CHAPTER FIVE: THE MEDIA’S VIEWING HOT SPOTS

CHAPTER SIX: HOW TO BEST VIEW THE TOTAL ECLIPSE

CHAPTER SEVEN: INTERSTATE HIGHWAYS THAT CROSS THE CENTERLINE

CHAPTER EIGHT: SMALL TOWNS VERY NEAR OR ON THE CENTERLINE

CHAPTER NINE: THOUSANDS OF HIGHWAY MILES WITHIN THE TWO – MINUTE ZONE

About The Author

Lions Pride Publishing

DISCLAIMER

We strongly recommend that you do your own research and confirmation of all of the information contained in this book . This information has been gathered from websites detailing the eclipse path, from AAA state maps, from internet state maps, from MapQuest, from articles appearing in the media and on the internet and from personal discussions.

Mother Nature’s weather is very unpredictable. Clouds can unexpectedly appear in a cloudless sky at the worst possible time for viewing the eclipse. Neither the author nor the Publisher is responsible in any way if you follow the suggestions in this book and fail to witness the Total Solar Eclipse for any reason.

By purchasing or accepting this book you agree that neither the author nor publisher is liable for any damages directly or indirectly related to the use of any information contained in this book.

DEDICATION

Dedicated to all those dreamers who appreciate the beauty and wonder of the celestial sphere.

In the words of the late, great astronomer Jack Horkheimer:

Keep Looking UP.

CHAPTER ONE

CRITICAL SUN VIEWING CAUTION

DON’T GO BLIND!!!!

OK. I get it. You’re an adult and you know better than to stare at the sun. Duh.

A total solar eclipse is often a family affair. It is estimated that over a hundred million Americans are within an easy day’s drive from the center of totality. Every person in the United States will see at least a partial solar eclipse.

Many viewers will be families with children. Adults MUST impress on their kids the importance of NEVER looking directly at the sun at ANY time except during those two fleeting minutes of totality.

A total eclipse is an event that takes place over about a two and a half hour period from start to finish. ONLY the two minutes or so of absolute totality in the middle of this time frame