Discover Eclipse by Bill Thorington

Bill Thorington, earned degrees in Biochemistry, Mathematics and Business Administration, but spent decades in banking and finance is now retired and running an organic cattle ranch in Northern California. As a banker he developed his writing skills to author technical papers, regulations and manuals while the wild world kept silently calling him to explore. As a master SCUBA diver, climber, spelunker and private pilot he became a seasoned explorer, challenging the Sierra Crest and John Muir Trails along the spine of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, trekking jungles in Mexico's Yucatan and in the Corcovado National Park on Costa Rica's Osa Peninsula or diving uncharted waters in Myanmar's Mergui Archipelago. In 2016 he read about an eclipse forming in North America's Pacific Northwest, tagged as The Great American Eclipse. It had been nearly 100 years since a total eclipse had formed over North America, so this event was a must. But he did not look at this as one of his many adventures around the world, but just a short road trip in his backyard. Little did he know how a great adventure can spawn from the simplest excursion.