I took 3 days off (Friday to go to Portland for an event and stay the night), and Mon/Tues. Drove to eastern OR Sat, camped in a national forest and left yesterday am. It was totally worth it. Of course, camping in a desert w/ only the water I brought (all those creeks on the topo map totally dried out) and a trowel for latrine facilitation is something I would do anyway. This was just an added excuse/benefit.

I like this picture I got but it is not too fancy. The three basic elements were the black silhouette of the moon, the sharp brilliant white corona, and the blue sky. Everybody's picture has the black silhouette, but there is a real tradeoff between capturing the sharpness of the corona (vs the diffuse extended corona) and the blue sky. So this is way overexposed for the corona but the blue, while still darker than it was, is enough to remind me.