Eclipse rip-off

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harrisonm said:
Catching some nice fish sounds pretty good. I never went fishing as a kid, and the few times I've gone as an adult, all I did was drown worms. maybe if I actually caught something, I could get into it. I don't really know anyone who fishes.
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growing up in rural Ontario with all it's lakes and forests it was just a bike ride as a kid to fish,camp and enjoy the outdoors.I can remember camping in the snow over night in a "lean to" as a 12 year old with my buddies.This morphed into week long wilderness canoe and hunting trips as an adult for 30 plus years.
We were so lucky!
.. i'd love to go to Europe some day
 
mbaird said:
Actually we are not in the 100% Zone here in Boise.... I guess the difference between 99% and 100% is night and day... ( pun intended).
I have had 2 separate friends that have experienced TOTAL eclipses tell me that.
Melissa and I are taking the Dual Sport up into the TOTAL ZONE about 60 miles north of here.

Mopar Tim....What were you doing in Boise ?
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Garden Valley ?
 
Talk about rip offs !!!!! A friend told me of his buddy that reserved a RV camping spot for the eclipse a year ago. The campground owner called him a couple weeks ago and told him if he wanted to keep his spot that it would be $1500. I had an opportunity to park in a guy's pasture for $150. ( I could pay $150. for a couple minutes rather than an eclipse and enjoy it a lot more. ) Guess I will just experience 93% of it from home and use the $150. for car parts.
Yote
 
Yote said:
Talk about rip offs !!!!! A friend told me of his buddy that reserved a RV camping spot for the eclipse a year ago. The campground owner called him a couple weeks ago and told him if he wanted to keep his spot that it would be $1500. I had an opportunity to park in a guy's pasture for $150. ( I could pay $150. for a couple minutes rather than an eclipse and enjoy it a lot more. ) Guess I will just experience 93% of it from home and use the $150. for car parts.
Yote
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The sad thing is someone will pay him 1500 for that spot.
 
Working dog....
Probably Mores Cr Summit.. But close to Garden Valley
 
Some car club friends announced at our last club meeting that they were travelling from SoCal to Nebraska so they could be in the "Path of Totality" for the eclipse.
I told them the "Path of Totality" sounds a little ominous to me.
Hope it was worth it for them and they had clear weather.

 
pishta said:
We camped like that growing up here in So Cal desert. Permit? We don't need no stinkin' permit! We just found some random dirt road off 395, north of Victorville and drove it till we got tired. Sometimes we just stopped on the dirt road and made camp right there, never saw another soul on those trips. Once I took a motorcycle out tooling, and found myself on a firing range on China Lake NAWS! Oops! I see this huge X on the end of this bowl shaped canyon and hundreds of blue 20mm rounds on the ground. I turned and hauled azz out of there, but not before grabbing 3 inert 20mm rounds and shell casings.
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I was raised in out in that desert. One fine day we took the VW squareback "Piglet" was the VW's name out one of those desert dirt roads we "thought" we were familiar with. "Let's go out a little further" we says. Drove another 30 or 40 minutes to an unfamilar dry lake. Had these odd steel towers in the lake bed. From above comes a loud voice "You!In the Volkswagen! Stop where you are!" WTH was that? It repeats as we keep exploring the area. We fianally stop and get out of Piglet and we see a dust trail approaching at a rapid rate. 4 Shore Patrol in a gray Navy Jeep. WTH? "You are trespassing on China Lake Naval Weapons Center. Come with us. We will escort you out." "Sir we just came from over there, we're from Barstow. 20 minutes we're outa here." "Follow us. Now!" They took us out through the base, cut us loose in Ridgecrest, 70 miles from home, when the other direction was 40 miles home. No fences, no signs, no warnings.
 
Unconventional said:
I was raised in out in that desert. One fine day we took the VW squareback "Piglet" was the VW's name out one of those desert dirt roads we "thought" we were familiar with. "Let's go out a little further" we says. Drove another 30 or 40 minutes to an unfamilar dry lake. Had these odd steel towers in the lake bed. From above comes a loud voice "You!In the Volkswagen! Stop where you are!" WTH was that? It repeats as we keep exploring the area. We fianally stop and get out of Piglet and we see a dust trail approaching at a rapid rate. 4 Shore Patrol in a gray Navy Jeep. WTH? "You are trespassing on China Lake Naval Weapons Center. Come with us. We will escort you out." "Sir we just came from over there, we're from Barstow. 20 minutes we're outa here." "Follow us. Now!" They took us out through the base, cut us loose in Ridgecrest, 70 miles from home, when the other direction was 40 miles home. No fences, no signs, no warnings.
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Try that near Area 51 and see what happens...!
 
I worked at China Like one summer while I was in college. You got lucky, the Navy drops a lot of ordinance on the those dry lakes
 
Here is what the total eclipse looked like from 8000ft in the 100% zone
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11:21....

11:29
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I forgot about the eclipse. I was working in the lawn, at the projected time of 1:15 P.M. EST, and all seemed normal, here in N.E. Pa.
 
retroron said:
I worked at China Like one summer while I was in college. You got lucky, the Navy drops a lot of ordinance on the those dry lakes
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Couple of years ago my wife and I were driving through Death Valley going south on that very lonely and deserted road from Stovepipe Wells towards Trona, when we spotted 2 Navy jets flying VERY low towards us, they buzzed us at no more than 100 feet altitude, I could see the pilot's faces, we kept giving them thumbs up so they did this a couple of more times from several directions for our entertainment (and theirs probably as well) it was great.!
 
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fwi said:
Couple of years ago my wife and I were driving through Death Valley going south on that very lonely and deserted road from Stovepipe Wells towards Trona, when we spotted 2 Navy jets flying VERY low towards us, they buzzed us at no more than 100 feet altitude, I could see the pilot's faces, we kept giving them thumbs up so they did this a couple of more times from several directions for out entertainment (and theirs probably as well) it was great.!
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I know that road, used to go that way to Tonopah.
 
My Dad ended up motorcycling on Giant Rock airport's runway once too! Too funny...We were camping again out in the sticks ('74 ish) and this bubble top M*A*S*H looking helicopter lands about 100 yds from us. We thought we were trespassing again so the "Elders" sheepishly stepped forward to greet the soldier (sailor?) and get their scolding. Nope, they were only asking us if we found a PRC-6 that got lost around there, and if we did find it to drop it off at a Ranger station, Aye aye, sir!
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We drove right into Goldstone Tracking Station one day, a NASA installation. Same access road that took us to China Lake. Nobody even looked at us twice. Kept on motoring, drove right out the main gate at Ft Irwin. Guards just smiled and waved. Granted, at the time Ft Irwin was just a National Guard base, weren't any wars in desert territory at that particular time. Lots of neat stuff out in the Mojave Desert. More I would like to explore. Marine fossils at 3000' above sea level:wtf: .. Big Horn Sheep .. Gold .. Silver .. Gems .. Just an amazing place .. I am not moving back there on a permanent basis .. No way .. No how :lol:
 
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