WE'RE OFF TO SEE THE TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE SUN

 Latest news:

• Peace talks with Iran?
• Israel continues to express concern about the Hamas.
• Looks like Todd Blanche's confirmation vote on the floor will occur, at the end of the week, just before the Senate goes into recess.  But will he pass?

Seems like I haven't been on a trip for awhile.  Actually, we returned less than three months ago after our cruises down the Mississippi and from Manhattan to Toronto, then a train ride from Toronto to Vancouver.  On our return, I looked ahead at our next adventure and said:

• We fly to Iceland to see some geo-cold sites, then board the Azamara Journey for 18-nights from Rekjavik to Greenland, ending up in Montreal. 
• Of course, there is one primary reason we will be on this cruise.  The next total solar eclipse.  Sun will stay dark for 2 minutes and 18 seconds on August 12.

So, anyway, we leave today on our eclipse trip.

• The Azamara Journey cruise is hopefully where we will experience that total eclipse.  The ship goes on to Montreal.

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  We'll fly to Vancouver, then board the Silver Whisper back to Honolulu

If you don't live along this rather narrow path, less than 200 miles wide, you won't be able to view the 100% total eclipse.  However, just about a year from today, on 2August2027, there will be a total eclipse for the ages.  Your big chance.

• This will be the longest total solar eclipse--6 minutes and 23 seconds--until 2114.

• 
  Misses Cairo, but will be right over Luxor.
• So if you ever wanted to cruise the Nile, this will be for you.
• Hmmmm.....
• However cruise packages are now already mostly wait listed.

One solution is provided by Google AI:

Specialized Nile river cruises and land-plus-cruise packages are available to see the August 2, 2027 total solar eclipse in Luxor, though continuous cruising directly from Cairo to Luxor on the river is rare or modified due to locks and river geography. Most operators combine Cairo hotel stays with a flight to Upper Egypt and a localized Nile cruise or Dahabiya that moors in Luxor for totality. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

We await our Delta flight to Seattle, stay overnight at the Airport Marriott, then tomorrow, Icelandair to Reykjavik.

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