On the eclipse train

Inevitably, when one spends 16 hours traveling to witness a two-minute event, the journey is as much a part of the experience as the event itself.

Some of you may have noticed that not one but two Saturdays have passed without a Pinch of Dirt dispatch. Two weeks ago I was away at a conference from Wednesday to Saturday, and simply had no time for extraccuricular writing at all, and this past week I was busy catching up at work, and really needed my evening down time to recuperate from the conferen…