How Americans in the solar eclipse’s path of totality plan to celebrate the celestial event on April 8, 2024 [Video]

On Monday, April 8, 2024, a total solar eclipse will be visible from Mexico, the U.S. and Canada. 

Americans in the path of totality, which will cross the mainland from Texas through Maine, will experience a few minutes of night-like darkness in the middle of the day — and for that brief time, some have planned once-in-a-lifetime moments.

Van views in Del Rio, Texas 

Though Jason Bernert lived in Oregon in 2017, when the last solar eclipse reached totality near Salem, he skipped it. He didn’t get the hype, he said.

“Then I heard everybody else that went down to totality, like my sister and family, and they were like, it was life-changing,” Bernert said.

This year, he and his girlfriend will watch the eclipse in what NASA sayswill be one of the first American cities to go dark: Del Rio, Texas. The couple set out from Washington, D.C., after Thanksgiving in 2023 in …