Sunil Vemuri is about to catch the third eclipse of his life.
A product manager at Google, the Bay Area resident had made plans early to watch the eclipse with his family — but changed course last minute.
“I was originally planning on seeing the eclipse in Texas. We changed our plans a couple of days ago when we saw that the weather in Texas was not going to be good,” he said on Monday morning, speaking from Newport. The Northeast Kingdom city is expected to have some of the best viewing conditions in Vermont — and even the country.
Luckily, the flights were easy to change and the family of four ended up flying to Boston, where they have family and friends.
Early Monday, they drove up with friends to Newport. They couldn’t find a place to stay and plan to drive back late to attempt to avoid the anticipated traffic.
Vemuri said his first partial eclipse, in the 1970s, was a bit of a dud because of cloud cover in Binghamton, New York, so he kept eclipse-viewing on his bucket list. In 2017, he was delighted to successfully watch a total solar eclipse from Glendo, Wyoming.
“To me, the eclipse is one of the most amazing and unique experiences that we on Earth are fortunate being able to witness,” he said. “To have a moon that is the exact size of the sun as seen from Earth and to be able to see that spectacle is, I think, a very unique experience in the galaxy.”
Correction: A previous version of this story misstated the kind of eclipse Sunil Vemuri saw in the 1970s.
