I went to Nova Scotia to see the total eclipse of the Sun. Didn't fly a Lear jet, though, just organized a few of my college buddies into a driving expedition from Massachusetts up to Antigonish. I had been planning for years to see that eclipse. When I was a kid & reading lots of science stuff I came across a list of predicted eclipses & saw there was going to be one on my 21st birthday & decided I would go see it if at all possible.

It turned out to be a bit of a letdown. The sky was mostly cloudfree, but such clouds as there were moved in front of the sun just before totality and stayed there until just after. It was neat the way it suddenly got dark and all, but very disappointing not to see total phase.

Carly Simon went to my high school (a few years before me).