R-pod Owners Forum : 2017 Total Solar Eclipse https://www.rpod-owners.com/ This is an XML content feed of; R-pod Owners Forum : Events and Campouts : 2017 Total Solar Eclipse Copyright (c) 2006-2009 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Thu, 28 May 2026 19:15:30 +0000 Tue, 02 May 2017 11:24:55 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 9.64 360 https://www.rpod-owners.com/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=9648 R-pod Owners Forum https://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_images/web_wiz_forums.png https://www.rpod-owners.com/ 2017 Total Solar Eclipse : Originally posted by MartinmyerI... https://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=9648&PID=92461#92461 Author: grand beaver
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Posted: 02 May 2017 at 11:24am

Originally posted by Martinmyer

I would like to see the solar eclipse when I can already use my second hand rpod next month. I'm thinking of going in some rv or camping parks so we can clearly see the sky during this amazing phenomenon. 


At least out here in Oregon if you have not made reservations already it is way to late to get a spot now. They are expecting huge crowds everywhere in the path of totality (?) and recently hundreds of camping spots (I use that spots term loosely) were sucked up with hours of being posted online. I fully expect gridlock on the major highways across the mountain passes on the day after. That is going to be one weekend we will be just day trippers without the pod and headed to Cascade Locks for the annual PCT days event. ]]> Tue, 02 May 2017 11:24:55 +0000 https://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=9648&PID=92461#92461 2017 Total Solar Eclipse : I would like to see the solar... https://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=9648&PID=92438#92438 Author: Martinmyer
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Posted: 02 May 2017 at 6:14am

I would like to see the solar eclipse when I can already use my second hand rpod next month. I'm thinking of going in some rv or camping parks so we can clearly see the sky during this amazing phenomenon. ]]> Tue, 02 May 2017 06:14:19 +0000 https://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=9648&PID=92438#92438 2017 Total Solar Eclipse : Good Evening All, I just bought... https://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=9648&PID=91787#91787 Author: SciTchr
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Posted: 23 Apr 2017 at 8:32pm

Good Evening All,  I just bought a used 2014 R-Pod 171.  Love it!  I need to search for the leak that is inflating the flooring, and the door lock needs replacing, but it generally seems sound and everyone tells me it's cute.  It is R-Escape Pod.

The Eclipse: I was teaching physics when we had the excellent good fortune to have a beautiful day in Syracuse, NY to view the solar eclipse several years ago.  I made a GIANT telephoto pinhole projector for my students to view with.  The pinhole was in a piece of heavy duty aluminum foil at the end of roughly 12 feet of heavy cardboard carpet tube.  The other end was inserted into a well fitted hole in a cardboard box.  White paper made up the screen we projected onto.  Students viewed through the corner of the box that I removed.  It was hard to hold the tube steady ... If I do it again, I'll lean it on a car or tall stepladder.  BUT the image of the eclipse was wonderful!!!
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Posted: 09 Apr 2017 at 10:53pm

Pete,

Funny thing...my first total solar eclipse was La Paz, 1991.

I live in AZ and saw the 2012 annular...

This will be my second total, near cascade, Idaho...

Alan

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Posted: 08 Apr 2017 at 6:19pm

I ordered some of the eclipse viewing "glasses" from the web site, sufficient for us, my siblings and their families, plus a couple of extras. If we can't see the total eclipse, we can at least see the partial one. I plan to surprise them with the viewing glasses on the trip.
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Posted: 08 Apr 2017 at 5:03pm

Thanks for the link! We might miss out as our plans have us in Canada. But, who knows!! We full-time and our plans often change, spur of the moment!]]> Sat, 08 Apr 2017 17:03:34 +0000 https://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=9648&PID=90779#90779 2017 Total Solar Eclipse : StephenH, your plans sound great!... https://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=9648&PID=90774#90774 Author: birderdiane526
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Posted: 08 Apr 2017 at 4:55pm

StephenH, your plans sound great! Not a bad alternative to the eclipse!]]> Sat, 08 Apr 2017 16:55:32 +0000 https://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=9648&PID=90774#90774 2017 Total Solar Eclipse : I would really like to be there... https://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=9648&PID=90765#90765 Author: StephenH
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Posted: 08 Apr 2017 at 2:00pm

I would really like to be there to see it but I will have to view a partial. I will be on another once-in-a-lifetime adventure for me and my siblings. We will be on an Alaska cruise during the eclipse. Perhaps as a consolation prize, we will see aurora borealis instead.]]> Sat, 08 Apr 2017 14:00:30 +0000 https://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=9648&PID=90765#90765 2017 Total Solar Eclipse : We're lucky. Our son and... https://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=9648&PID=90761#90761 Author: Kokopod
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Posted: 08 Apr 2017 at 1:28pm

We're lucky. Our son and daughter-in-law own 39 acres of land in Wyoming along its path. The whole family is going to camp out there and enjoy it together. Hotels in Casper, Wy have been sold out for months.]]> Sat, 08 Apr 2017 13:28:50 +0000 https://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=9648&PID=90761#90761 2017 Total Solar Eclipse : We will be at Glendo State Park... https://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=9648&PID=90738#90738 Author: Pete Brayton
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Posted: 08 Apr 2017 at 9:27am

We will be at Glendo State Park in Wyoming on the centerline...can't wait.  This will be only my second total solar eclipse, first was in Mexico in 1991; saw the annular eclipse at Lake Powell in 2012 and several partials. If you are planning to see this eclipse you'd better start making reservations now...if you can get them!]]> Sat, 08 Apr 2017 09:27:22 +0000 https://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=9648&PID=90738#90738 2017 Total Solar Eclipse : RPod Community,I found this great... https://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=9648&PID=90736#90736 Author: Wood River Pod
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Posted: 08 Apr 2017 at 9:18am

RPod Community,
I found this great website that details the path of the August 21 solar eclipse.  Get in you pod and head to a closest location that will offer a spectacular show.  We are lucky here in Idaho, the path runs across the state with some of the best viewing up in the Stanley basin in the beautiful Sawtooth mountains.
Enjoy!
Wood River Pod

http://www.eclipse2017.org/2017/path_through_the_US.htm

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