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Message: <blockquote data-quote="birdrousta" data-source="post: 3340637" data-attributes="member: 129957">I'd book flights to Europe and Japan and see my binos assembled.  I'll have Nikon spin the porro line up and have them knock out an se in 8x50 with twist-up eyecups and monarch objective covers, fully waterproofed with 10 diopters focus past infinity.next I'll swing by swarovski and let the habicht team have a peek through the competition.  I'll take the long route home over land through Europe via Spain, a dip into North Africa and then from Cairo to Bangkok and on to New Zealand by sea.  if Trump wins, I might need to wait it out overseas, but I'd be fine heading to Chile and working my way north to the canal, then heading into the Caribbean for rum, cigars and hummingbirds.I do hope I'd be able to get to North Carolina to view the eclipse in 2017, though.self indulgent fantasy aside, is anyone else making plans to see the eclipse?  especially folks who know the weather in the southeast well?</blockquote>