Fairly heavy traffic (for Wyoming), but no delays or anything, so I am at my location with two hours to spare.
Looking at clear blue skies and no bad traffic on the state highway (SC Hwy 81) at least in rural Upstate South Carolina.
Putting together picnic supplies and heading out to the yard shortly. Let the show begin.
I honestly thought we’d witness the 2nd coming of Carmageddon.
Been checking Google Maps traffic all day, and the only huge clusterf*cks were coming from Atlanta and Charlotte towards the eclipse track. Even weirder, none of the massive post-eclipse jams west of the current shadow’s location have apparently materialized either.
Yet here I sit waiting, 200 miles from the track for my car to be repaired* and my vacation to start, a day late and a dollar short.
[*Some hooligans smashed both side windows early Saturday morning, making off with a nice pair of binoculars, a prescription pair of sunglasses, and 10 bucks worth of quarters (which were destined for any toll booths I came across]
Last evening I-40 east of Nashville was busy for a Sunday evening. Moving at speed, but heavy.
My commute this morning from Wilson County (adjacent to the east) to downtown was a breeze. They should have an eclipse every day so I can get to work on time! How about it, science?
GESancMan said that his friend was in Oregon, not that he was. It sounded like he was on the way to the zone, and that traffic was that bad even that far out.
Meanwhile, we’re almost at time, and there’s not one other person here other than our group. My uncle picked the spot well.
There is a sludge of humanity oozing north on Interstate 5 out of Salem, OR, to Portland, OR, and beyond. As I type this the electronic sensors in the road are showing an average speed northbound of 15 mph from Salem to Wilsonville, OR, a distance of 30 miles.
Moments before totality, another couple of people showed up (fleeing the cloud cover). We’re on the road again now, and there is a fair bit of traffic now, but we’re taking a scenic route, so the traffic is mostly the other way.
It would seem the issue wasn’t getting in to the path of totality, but getting out: http://jjakucyk.com/eclipse-totality.png
Because you *honestly *thought he might be talking about eclipse traffic in Maine, Rhode Island and New York? Really now? :dubious:
Can’t be too surprising. People had all weekend to get to their spots, but most will leave as soon as it is over - especially if they need to be back to work on Tuesday. Arrivals spread out over a long period, departures mostly all at the same time.
Happened to us, too. Took us about an extra hour to get back to my uncle’s house. We were in a tiny town called Young Harris, GA.
We are stuck in traffic in Madras. We’ve moved maybe 2 miles in 40 minutes.
I watched the eclipse from the shoulder of Idaho 33, west of I-15 by about 15 miles. Getting there from Butte was no trouble at all. There were a LOT of people along ID 33, until you got past Mud Lake.
Coming back was a bit more of a slog. Clearing out all the eclipse watchers in the area, almost all of whom were taking I-15 back to wherever they were from, took a bit of time (not a shock). But the real annoyance was that Montana had started a bridge repair project about 10 miles north of the border in I-15, and there was a 5-mile-plus backup, which inched forward at about 2-5 mph (when not dead stopped). Obviously, they’ve never figured out how to zipper down a lane here in Montana. 
The eclipse itself was awesome. If you didn’t see today’s, plan on the 2024 one!
I came home looking for traffic … just to see if I could find any … well, I did … an hour to go twenty miles south of Corvallis on old 99W … I knew there was a one lane bridge just south of Monroe on that route so I figured that would be the best place to get stuck in traffic … woot …
Looking at traffic now, it looks like traffic is heavy heading into Portland on major roads, and there’s this mass that’s slowly moving south down I-5. When I looked earlier it ran from Tangent to past Eugene. It seems to be a miles long bolus of cars that is gradually leaving the eclipse area.
My parents took Amtrak up from the Bay Area to Albany, OR (near Salem, in the totality). It worked really well, should the occasion ever come up when someone considers the same.
Headed to Albany, OR, just south of Salem at 6am. Traffic, but not bad. The Denny’s there was PACKED. Found a nice park in a residential neighborhood nearby, hung out for three hours, saw the totality, and scrambled south right afterwards ( I saw the eclipse start, no need to see it end). Hit a little stop and go around Eugene, but really it was smooth sailing all the way south.
The next total solar eclipse that will be visible from Oregon will be on October 5, 2108 - a little early to be making plans 
Friends of mine from here in suburban Chicago went down to the Carbondale, IL area to see the totality. Under normal traffic conditions, it’s a 5-hour trip; it took them 8.5 hours to get home this evening. Not Woodstock-level horrid, but definitely slow.
They’re lucky. Carbondale to Joliet somehow took me eleven hours. Did they leave before the eclipse? 