August 20th

Hello.

Today was a positioning and meeting-up day. We drove east to Lincoln from York, which was under an hour's journey, and met up with Dad, my brother Richard, and his partner, Ann. This is in preparation for tomorrow's total solar eclipse, something I've been waiting many years for! More in a moment.

We met at the hotel, and then headed for a spot of lunch. We then went back to the motel and checked in, before heading out into Lincoln. We wanted to visit the Museum of Speed, but it was closed on Sundays. We then headed to a very popular ice cream parlour, Ivanna Cone. It was busy, but the ice cream was very good! We had a look around the area of Lincoln it was in, which was around the old station - very nice.

We headed back to the motel, had a swim, and then went out for dinner. This was followed by a round of mini golf - more details on Richard and Ann's blog - http://annandrichardsamericanadventure.blogspot.com/

We then headed back to the motel and had a planning session ahead of tomorrow's eclipse - basically it looks like quite a bit of high cloud will be spreading into the area later tonight and through tomorrow, so we need to determine where to go. Currently, it looks like a jaunt west into central Nebraska might be required - we will decide this before 6am, and if needed, we will leave at around 6am. Given the excitement and nervousness about this - I'm not sure how easily I'll sleep!