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My town is at the very edge of the Path Of Totality as it cut through the Heart of It All. All I did was drive a few miles to a park where a friend had rented a picnic shelter, and it was worth it to experience it with other folks, several hundred in the part where we were. Weather was great. I liked the 5-10 minutes before and after totality the best, the desaturation of the light but everything was more clearly defined, very cool.
Yet overall, I agree with tucker's original assessments. The horizons were always lit; I forgot to look for the planets that were supposedly visible but the entirety of the sky never got planetarium-dark, so maybe I was expecting too much in that regard. The cool-down was noticeable, but that's it. (I wonder if viewers of the next one in Greenland and Iceland will notice the cooling.)
If I had been talked into driving hundreds of miles and paying for a motel and everything associated with a road trip, including monumental and sincere traffic jams, I'd have been very disappointed.
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