Last 4 days of eclipse travel was mostly cheat meals, where the most "anti-cancer diet" gesture would be throwing away the top bun of a Chick-fil-A sandwich (leaving a clean leaf of lettuce to hold onto while driving).

I also managed to only drink 2 of the Red Bull cans out of 4 that I'd allotted for a 1-per-day quota.

Our days were:

Saturday 5am to 2pm, drive Boston to Front Royal
Sunday 5am to 2pm, drive Front Royal to Pickens County, SC
Monday 4pm to 2am, drive in heavy traffic away from Eclipse
Tuesday 2pm to 12mid, drive home

Saturday evening was evening church and two unique experiences:
1) 2 Spelunkers Bacon Cavern Burger with Everythings.
2) Rolling thunder.  A storm with continuous lightening and therefore continuous thunder passed over us.  It really did sound like a motorcycle gang was passing by. The clouds also had an unusual stretched look

Sunday morning I realized that Southwest Virginia used to be hot stuff:
1) Lee is buried at Washington & Lee in Lexington Va
2) Jefferson owned Natural Bridge
3) Woodrow Wilson & Cyrus McCormick (of wheat-reaper fame) were born there

Sunday we stopped in Asheville NC, just to say we'd seen the Gustavino Vaulting on the Basilica of St Laurence

Monday was The Eclipse, which was:
1) Really amazing to see a dark circle hanging in the sky
2) A *tiny* bit disappointing, because the sky never got darker than twighlight blue (JUpiter and Venus appeared on the far left and right, respectively, but I still have never seen Mercury.
3) As the 1% sliver disappeared and later reappeared, there was a 100% change in what you saw.  The Cicadas started singing their twilight song and then stopped.

And then all along the path of the eclipse, people got in their car and left for home:

I *knew* we should have left immediately after totality, but there was much goodbye-ing and so the traffic had time to build. It was worst on I-85 back to Atlanta and Charlotte, but I-26 to Asheville was also awful, so we had to go circuitously via I-40 and I-77 to get to I-81, which then operated at what I'd call "super critical" volumes..moving fast but easily perturbed.  The rest areas were packed at 11pm the way they are in beach traffic on a summer weekend.

Anyway. Home safe and back to work.