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About three hours after leaving the NHTIC, with a lunch stop enroute, we arrived at Glendo. It was disappointingly smoky/hazy along the way from distant forest fires, and unusually crowded on I-25, but not a problem.

We stopped into the Glendo municipal airport (a huge grass field) a bit after 1 pm. It was closed down for the week leading up to the eclipse to allow vendors to set up, etc. It was remarkably quiet here early on Sunday afternoon... "Where is everyone?"

However, we'd seen huge crowds at the Orin rest stop about 15 miles north, and packing private fields turned into campgrounds along the frontage road south into town. And apparently that evening and the next morning, Glendo was a different story! But by then we were out of town.

As prearranged, we met up with Jim and Linda Thomas, also of Fort Collins, at the Glendo airport, then drove 9 miles back north and west to the JK Bar Bible Ranch, where we'd reserved to spend the night and view the eclipse. (Them in a bunkhouse, us in our camper van.)

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By Alan Silverstein, ajs@frii.com (page updated Sun Mar 9 14:33:54 MDT 2025)