Eclipse Day. My Beloved and I left Denver at 4 a.m. and drove several hours north, stopping in Scottsbluff, Nebraska.
Why Scottsbluff?
Several towns along the "path of totality" - small to mid-sized - formed the 2017 Nebraska Eclipse Coalition, to attract and entertain tourists like me and my Beloved with events, speakers and promotional materials that guided our decision to visit. The Coalition included Scottsbluff.
So we breakfasted at Shari's Café & Pies - a sort of mashup of Denny's and Marie Calendar's - and at about 9 a.m., crossed the highway to wait for darkness in the parking lot of the local Target store.
This review is written to thank Target's management for allowing our group of 30-or-so cars to tie up space for the couple of hours it took for the eclipse to happen.
While their decision wasn't entirely altruistic - my wife, along with a number of other visitors, used the downtime prior to "totality" to shop - the store's staff was nonetheless gracious and neighborly, just what one would expect to find in a small town on the far western edge of Nebraska.
What's more, the Scottsbluff Target was good to their employees, allowing them to step outside during totality so they wouldn't miss the remarkable event.
The topper: their group took a staff photo, all wearing their eclipse glasses. I have added a copy of the pic, sent to me by the store's Justin Dworak, Executive Team Leader Logistics.
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