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The Tornado on I-75:

This has been my bio for several months now. Some people may recognize why, but I'd like to make a formal announcement and extend an open invitation to friends, mutuals, and followers alike.

On April 8th, 2024, a total solar eclipse will be visible across the United States, and the path ot totality just so happens to pass through the small town of Wapakoneta, Ohio, the birthplace of astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the Moon.

I think it's amazing that everything has lined up so perfectly, it's a big magical cosmic coincidence. The Moon will be directly overhead where the first moonwalker was born; it feels like a prophecy

Anyway, right now this fact is pretty obscure, but as we get closer to the eclipse I guarantee that people will start talking about it. The town will advertise it to draw in tourists, they may even plan an eclipse party, so I'm getting out ahead of the crowd and planning one myself. The specific coordinates I chose are for the Armstrong Air and Space Museum, though who knows what the museum will have planned for that day; it's too soon to set anything in stone, but I want to get the word out so we can start making plans in that general direction. Whether the museum is open or not, I'm gonna be in Wapakoneta that day, and I want you guys to come too!

I'm going on roadtrip from Florida all the way up the I-75 to Ohio, some 1200 miles, I'll make the weekend of it, see the country, pass through Atlanta, Knoxville, Lexington, Cincinnati, maybe make some stops along the way to see Civil War sites, who knows? I've never been allowed to plan my own vacation before, I've always just gone with the flow of what everyone else wanted to do.

If you want to attend the eclipse party and live within, say, 3 or 4 hours of the I-75, we can carpool or caravan together. If you live way further out and can't make the drive, but catch a flight that lands nearby, I can swing by the airport and pick you up. I'm willing to make detours, we can coordinate everything as we get closer to the date.

There's no official RSVP yet, but if you're interested in coming feel free to hit me up. It's still 2 years out from the eclipse, and a lot can change between now and then, so nothing is concrete yet. It won't be until the middle of next year that we have to start finalizing stuff, so we have plenty of time to figure iron out the details.

I've got friends from all over the country, and I think it would be really nice to have a big meetup. I never got to go to any conventions before the apocalypse started, so this will be a nice public get together as things hopefully return to some semblance of pre-covid normalcy by then. It'll also be a nice distraction from the sure-to-be dumpster fire of the presidential election.

Monday, April 8, 2024

Wapakoneta, Ohio

3:10 PM

“Stay near Mickey at a Mini-Price!”

the great discovering road

pushing past corn fields.

Heading up the line

to Michigan scented pines,

campfires ever night.