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5 5  Well...  As of this evening, it looks as if things may be changing!
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9 9  (This is projected cloud cover map from Windy.com, for next Monday, April 8th at 2pm, the time of the eclipse in our current timezone.)
10 10  
11 11  Our plan now is to continue toward our selected McDowell Campground site, east of Amarillo, and if the situation in Texas continues to improve, we can drop down to the Dallas area.  If not, we will continue toward Poplar Bluff.
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18 18  Tomorrow evening will probably decide it for us and then we'll see what happens.
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26 26  
27 27  We drove through beautiful mountain passes still covered in snow with horses grazing:
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31 31  
32 32  We saw warnings of elk, but didn't see any:
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37 -We made it into Roswell, where we saw signs of aliens:
37 +We made it into Roswell, where we saw warnings of aliens:
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41 41  But try as we may, we [[never found>>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQeezCdF4mk]] any Alien Socks.
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43 43  
44 44  So, we travelled on
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48 48  
49 49  Over perfectly straight roads for 100s of miles:
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53 53  
54 54  And the only indication we were entering Texas was the change of timezones:
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58 58  
59 59  Finally landing at McDowell Campground!  We were worried about possibly not getting one of the small number of spots, but what we were **not** prepared for was the place being absolutely entirely **empty!**  We drove through all 10 sites which have full hookups and selected the one we wanted because absolutely no one is here!
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63 63  
64 64  So...  Here's the new plan:
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68 68  
69 69  Poplar Bluff currently is projected to have close to 0% cloud cover while the rest of Texas under the eclipse line has lots of clouds:
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73 73  
74 74  Given where we are, the trip to Poplar Bluff would be over 700 miles, so it would take another two days
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78 78  
79 79  If we split that in the middle, we end up around Fort Smith (or actually Van Buren, which is closer to the freeway).  So, given we're there tomorrow, we could go either way:
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86 86  
87 87  We're really thinking seriously about Poplar Bluff.  It looks as if east of Dallas will be under clouds.
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90 90  Onward to [[Springhill Campground>>doc:Main.Springhill-Park.WebHome]].
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