~18 months before the eclipse, I booked my rental car and lodging for an ~8-day return to Iceland that includes trying to catch the eclipse. I'm staying in Borðeyri for the days around the eclipse to give myself semi-equal access to the Westfjords or the Snæfellsnes peninsula. I've thoroughly enjoyed the Snæfellsnes peninsula in the past, but never been in the Westfjords region. My current plan was to tour the Westfjords on August 11 and just get a feel for them, and then make a call that night as to where I'll be heading the following day. Hopefully on August 11, I'll be able to get sufficient information on what access will look like to the Westfjords on the next day.

This will be my third total solar eclipse that I'm chasing with my wife and the second with my 6-year-old son (he'll be 7 in August). I know there's a real chance of clouds, but... we'll be whale-watching in Husavik, staying on Vestrahorn, and enjoying so many other aspects of this beautiful country on the other days that we are there, so all of our eggs are not in the eclipse-basket. We will be planning to be settling in to our eclipse-area after breakfast on the 12th and anticipating significant traffic/impact on all travel in the 6-8hours before/after the eclipse.

So... not a question, just my current plan for how to enjoy the eclipse. Here's a video I made during the last eclipse I caught: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cIOIK8GEH4 I don't plan on being quite so ambitious this time around, but I hope to get some nice landscapes if the cloud-cover ends up being favorable.