The pictures are great, but they don't capture the experience of seeing it with one's own eyes. As the eclipse is progressing, you have to use the special glasses which reduce the sun to a small white disk with the moon increasingly covering a portion of the sun. But when totality is reached it is truly an awesome sight. Suddenly the sun is fully covered by the moon and appears as just a black disk with a glowing halo of the sun's corona. Unlike the first eclipse that I witnessed, in 2017, where the period of totality was about 2 minutes, this time it was over 4 minutes. Staring at that sight with naked eyes as the world around us darkened to a level of late evening or early full night, with the sudden silencing of the birds and the sudden chirping of the crickets was something I am sure all of this there at the time will never forget.
As much as seeing the eclipse itself, it was a very special event for my wife and I, spending it with our two daughters, their husbands (both great son-in-laws) and a few of our 13 grandchildren. We made a 3 day outing of it, with a day's travel before and after, making it a short but very memorable vacation for us.