Buy your tickets now.

I went down to GA to see it in 2017, and honestly, the beauty of these things is that it doesn't matter that much where you see it, as long as you're in the area of totality. It's amazing regardless.

We just found a random town with a village green in the totality band, and set up a blanket on the grass.

I would recommend not overthinking the venue, and I would actively avoid any place that's going to be particularly slammed/crowded, but I do suggest seeing it around other people--and I say that as someone who generally prefers solitude when taking in natural phenomena.

My favorite memory from the 2017 eclipse was that second when the sunlight completely dimmed, and there was this audible gasp from the few hundred people in the park, followed by this crescendo of a hooting cheer.

There was something really fundamentally human about that, and it stuck with me.

The freeway traffic getting back to Atlanta was horrible, but it was well worth it for the experience.