OLYMPIA, Wash. – Transportation officials in Oregon and Washington have a message for the region's drivers: However bad you think traffic is going to be during next Monday's total solar eclipse, it's probably going to be worse than you imagine. A lot worse.
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Sadly, I'm giving up my ambition of witnessing this event. Flights to Boise were priced about nine times (!) as much as usual several weeks ago and they are doubtless more now. Traffic is another reality I don't want to cope with, especially on the winding, narrow roads of my native potato state. I'll try catch the next one in 50 years or so when I'm about 110. Either that or jet off to some obscure location like Texas in 2024 or Iceland in 2026.