My long road trips are up there for best vacations and this post from the top of the 2017 thread has links to the threads for my major ones.
My road trip this year is divided into two segments - an eastern trip in Jun and a western trip in Aug. I leave this Fri on the eastern trip. Here's a map of my overnight destinations and updated travels between them. My usual travelogue will appear in mostly daily posts.
Red: overnight stay
Magenta: multiple night stay (including home)
Blue: intentional visit
Yellow: stop for a quilt shop
Cyan: stop for gas, food, etc.
Green: drive through
The analemma is the path of the Sun seen by an observer on the Earth taken at the same time on different days of the year. It looks like this.
The highlight of the trip will be a view of the total solar eclipse in ID. Given this year's connection to the Sun, and the general shape of the overnight stays, I thought of the analemma. For the record my previous road trip threads can be found here: 2015, 2011, 2008, and 2005. As always, I'm open to meet ups with other posters as time permits.
However, my vacation last year to HI needs to be on the list as I spent time on 5 islands over two weeks. Here are the reports from the Update thread.
https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=275474.msg6107452#msg6107452https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=275474.msg6111591#msg6111591https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=275474.msg6119249#msg6119249https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=275474.msg6123107#msg6123107https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=275474.msg6127709#msg6127709
