I got to Madras OR easy, Saturday there was barely no traffic.
Got the eclipse, had my 1DX+24-70 on intervalometer snapping time-lapse (right when eclipse was about done the sun was getting out of frame unfortunately). 5D4 had Sigma 150-600 with 1000 Oaks film. I was mostly manually zooming at 400-600, and snapping 7 bracket shots. About every few minutes.
Then totality hit and holy smokes the feeling of looking the corona without the solar glasses. I have to say it was very awesome feeling. We took quick group selfie with one of the cameras, I took few more with the Sigma 600 (without filter). And all suddenly it was back to diamond. Took last quick shot before putting back the filter on the lens.
Like I told my friend, it was almost like sex. You spend couple days with high anticipation, then there's hour of foreplay, suddenly lights go out and there's lot of cheering, and two minutes later you're exhausted.
Waited until eclipse was completely done, packed our gear and headed home. Drive home was way different. At times traffic was barely moving. Got home around 1:30am. Didn't even take cameras out from the car. Just ran through quick shower and hit bed. This morning drove to work, so the pictures are still on camera(s). Here's one pic I took of the camera:
(not sure if you can see it)
I'm sure today after I get home, I'll spend rest of the evening with LR/PS.
2021 would be at Antarctica. I'm semi-seriously thinking that if it hits one of the areas that you can go with the tour boats, that really would be once-in-a-lifetime event.