My niece has her priorities all wrong. She lives right in the centre of the eclipse path but is going to Toronto (only a partial eclipse there) that day for baseball home opener. You can see a baseball game anytime!
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I read this as there’s now an available place to stay right in center of the path. 
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It had crossed my mind to advertise her place on AirBnB.
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If she lives near ohio, you can just PM her addresss and which window is most likely unlocked.
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Yeah, even though you’re a baller it is tough to assign personal utility function to rare things. The 2017 eclipse cost me a PTO day, maybe $400 in expenses that directly benefitted me or my family. Largest non-personally-beneficial expense was buying eclipse glasses for kids’ schools, but that was a voluntary donation that made me feel good. Got some nice thank you notes too.
She is well east of Toronto but the other grandfather of my grandkids is in Niagara On The Lake which is much closer to Ohio. If I hadn’t had obligations here I would have arranged a visit to see him and the eclipse in Niagara. I expect the hotels will be packed there but he has extra rooms.
The schools are closing for the eclipse along much of the Canadian path. Is that happening in US?
There’s a reason I booked my eclipse trip as hotel and airline booking windows for the dates opened.
And actually, the hotel I had aimed for filled up in a few hours, before I could book.
We’re staying just outside the path of totality, with back roads identified to get to my preferred viewing location, so we don’t have to sit in the traffic jams on the highway post-totality.
Of course, with my luck it’ll be cloudy everywhere within easy reach of our hotel.
No, I’m not a baller. I have a cheap, 20+ year-old car that needs work to make it comfortable for four days of driving. I don’t consider PTO’s as an expense. I am usually at the company limit, so taking them is better than not accruing them. This would be at least five PTO days. I’d leave Wednesday, arrive Friday about 30 hours later (adding sleeping, eating).
I took a similar trip, 1000 miles to the 2017 eclipse. I think I paid my way by arriving early in Redding and winning a few hundred at the poker room there. stayed at a Motel 6 in Redding on the way there and the way back, as it was about halfway. And, since I’ve seen one, the experience of a second one is diminished somewhat. One could say dimmed, cuz eclipse.
Not too many poker rooms on the way to San Antone (Scottsdale has one, and Palm Springs has two), and I don’t think I’d want to spend more waking hours doing that.
I hope folks get blessed with a clear sky but early April in Eastern Canada is a bad bet for that.
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I had planned a trip to Ohio (I know some people with a place on Indian Lake), but I remembered that it’s not the best time. Tornadoes and what-not.
Then again, I’ll be in Texas, which has various things against it.
Indian Lake is anticipating a lot of people.
Dude, how much you spend on wine last year? Probably more than my kid’s rent (no, not the ones that live with me).
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$1000 or so. Drank maybe $300 or so of it, though.
Wow, i sure got the wrong impression on that.
on a completely unrelated note, Pr0nHub pulls out of Texas
https://www.chron.com/culture/article/texas-adult-website-blocked-19018637.php
Oh, in the “drink order” thread, I am drinking a lot of my friend’s wine. He has a full fridge and at least one bedroom full of cases. I am helping my friend reduce his inventory (no success, as they belong to at least four, and on occasion six, clubs).
My fridge is about 75% full.
Considering we belong to two clubs, receiving 24 bottles total per year (plus a few add-ons), and those bottles cost around $50, so maybe $1200 or so. $1500 max, since we do sometimes visit other wineries and buy wines there. I do not buy wine at stores anymore. Wine trips are often overnight or a whole weekend, so that is additional.
Trips to breweries often result in a four- or six-pack or a growler (crowler?) canned to take home.
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This is a bit before your time but is this THE Indian Lake that the Cowsills sang about in 1968? Couldn’t turn the radio on that summer without hearing it.
A man after my own heart. At least you have your priorities straight.
Wine is much cheaper in the US than Canada (taxes) so $50 must buy you a pretty good bottle.
Yes, they’re all pretty good.
Justin is one of our wine clubs. They’re available at my local store, and the club price is cheaper than the grocery price. Not by a lot, but I have a lot more trust in the winery and myself to store it right than however the wine got from the winery eventually to my local store. Very good blends and Cabs, but they do have to sit for several years in order to peak. I’m not all that patient, though.
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Is your friend named Jeremiah, perchance?
Well, he went to UGA, then transferred to TCU…
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