... to visit the Georgia Guidestones, just killing time, trying to not arrive in Greenville while my pal was still in his pajamas. Surprised to see so many people hanging around. Maybe a dozen or so, just milling around the little grassy area around the stones. Some appeared to have been there for quie a while: a couple of small tents had been set up, where they spent the night.Waiting for the eclipse.
Even more surprised to see the sign out on a little stake by the highway, offering to sell the dark-tinted glasses for viewing for $60. I don't know the specifics, but would never consider spending that much cash on a street corner, for anything. Much less cardboard and plastic glasses to wear for 2.7minutes.
I had two of the cheap-o ones from Amazon, and was gave one away to a couple of guys who were hanging around waiting for a friend. Up on top of the hill in a cowpasture on a rural highway, surrounded by woods, pastures, countryside in the middle of nearly Nowhere. Leaving me with one to put on my face, looking like an escapee from a 3-D movie theater, while viewing the eclipse. I was prepared to feel really foolish standing out in the yard, looking straight up in the sky, but decided that all those millions of people who were doing the same thing at the same time would not notice me - so why bother to feel like a goofball?
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