kengr

I apologize! What I intended to imply was 'if S and I end up doing an overnight, that would probably curtail our ability to coordinate a trip with anyone else due to the baseline increase in logistical complexity' e.g. I CANNOT plan an overnight for anyone except MAYBE us even if other people could DO it. However, that isn't what I said, and it came out as me failing to honor and request information about your needs before tossing ideas around. I'm sorry for that.

It sounds like you ARE interested in an eclipse trip. Enough so that I should aim for a plan for S-and-me with enough flex in it to pick up some additional people, maybe? And NOT an overnight.

In the spirit of paying attention to necessary details, what distances, grades, and types of surface are you happy with, comfortable with, uncomfortable with, or unable to cope with for walking? At the moment I am capable of roughly a three-hour hike on any trail (not bushwhacking or climbing though) but that's very different from where I was last winter, when I was having trouble with one flight of stairs! In good weather and when I bring a book, I can cover about eight to ten miles on city streets in a walking day if I decide to devote the time to it, but not much more, so my effective limitations are more about the trail/road/beach surface and the total time - so long as I have slept, relaxed, eaten, and had water, coffee, and meds beforehand and not worked myself up into a panic getting ready - but if I run out of sensory processing energy or peopling energy, especially if I haven't eaten or slept, I go monosyllabic and have trouble walking AT ALL because I can't tell which direction is forward. My rule of thumb for trips for myself and S is that we bring water, we pack along food, and we go someplace where a restroom stop at the beginning and end of outdoor activity is feasible. Generally there is enough space and soothing nature-y things outdoors that I don't do an Overwhelm. Generally.