Adding on to this, I'd recommend getting to totality and not thinking "99% occlusion is probably 99% as good." For the 2017 one, we went to a field about 100 m

Adding on to this, I'd recommend getting to totality and not thinking "99% occlusion is probably 99% as good." For the 2017 one, we went to a field about 100 miles from where we were staying and compared our experience to our hosts who stayed behind because of cloud cover forecast for the day. Clouds cleared for both of us, but from the discussions, it was worth going that 100 miles.