My daughter was preschool age in 2017 and we were able to go to the other side of our county and view totality from a community park. It was fun but she hardly remembers it. Now she is 11 one of my wife’s dear friends is the path of totality about 5 hours drive from us, so a good excuse for a visit and for our daughters (13 months apart) to get reacquainted. Hotels have limited availability at $1,000 per night so we are staying with the friends. We are looking forward to a nice visit and hoping for cooperative weather. In 2017 we had perfect cloudless day.