With a forecast for thickening clouds in the afternoon on Monday, no one in New England is guaranteed to see the total eclipse. Few places along the route in the United States have clear, sunny skies in the outlook.

One Connecticut resident holds a better chance of witnessing the moon blocking the sun. Monica Adorno, an adventure traveler who lives in Litchfield County, is booked on Delta Air Lines Flight 1010 from Dallas to Detroit Monday afternoon — one of two sojourns designed by Delta to follow the eclipse.

And she has an all-important window seat on the side of the plane facing the sun.

Adorno tried to snag a ticket on a Delta flight from Austin to Detroit at the same time, which was billed as an eclipse-viewing run. She couldn't book it fast enough but when Delta opened up the second eclipse flight, from Dallas, she acted quickly.

Up in the sky, Ardorno and 190 or so other passengers and crew on the Airbus jet should float above the clouds and have an unobstructed view of the celestial spectacle. They should.

"There could still be an issue. There could be clouds at 30 or above 30," Adorno said last week, referring to 30,000 feet.

"Whatever it's going to be, it's going to be," Adorno said. "I'm an optimist who believes it's going to be great. But if not, I'll be flying. I love flying, absolutely love it."

Adorno, a retired accountant, has climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa, volunteered at numerous natural disasters around the world, has trained in zero-gravity and ridden submersibles in the Caribbean Sea.

One submersible she paid to board was the Titan, the ill-fated craft that took passengers 12,500 feet to the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean to see the wreck of the Titanic. Adorno paid $105,129 for the OceanGate adventure and made it out to sea in 2021, ready to board the vessel — only to have the mission canceled.

I reported last June that Adorno filed a complaint for a refund from OceanGate in 2021 and warned of safety issues aboard the vessel. The titan imploded last year near the Titanic, killing all five people on board including the OceanGate founder and Paul-Henri Nargeolet, the Titanic expert and former Connecticut resident.

The Delta Air Lines eclipse flight is a lot lower stakes, more whimsical. "It sounds like a fun day, or part of the day," Adorno said.

You might think, as I did, that the flight gives passengers a couple of hours of eclipse viewing time. Not so. The moon's shadow will travel at about 2,000 miles an hour over the United States — and with the jetliner moving at "only" about 400 miles an hour, passengers will have maybe slightly longer than the Earth-bound four minutes of total eclipse time.

And of course they won't be able to hear the silence of animals in the woods who think night has fallen; plus they'll have to view it through airplane windows. But what a magnificent view they should see, a panoramic sweep of the earth plunging into darkness in the shadow of the moon.

The captain of the flight told CBS News he'll bank the plane by 30 degrees when they hit the eclipse over Missouri, to make sure everyone has a clear view. Everyone except him, that is.

"We plan to do everything within our control to give customers a memorable flight experience, regardless of what side of the aircraft they're sitting on," Delta told Forbes magazine.

CBS reported the Delta flights were sold out. I saw seats for sale for $949 Saturday night aboard the one from Dallas, though all the window seats were gone. Flight 1010 to Detroit normally leaves at 11:35 a.m. with economy prices ranging from $119 to $325 in advance. Delta basically pushed it an hour later for the occasion.

Speaking of departure times, a delay could mess up the whole experience, but at least Adorno and other passengers will be in the path of totality in Dallas. She and I joked about that on the day after the UConn men's basketball team had a 7-hour delay to Arizona from Bradley International Airport.

But after years of adventures and humanitarian aid work around the world, she's not worried about this flight's takeoff time or possible clouds. She is an affirmer, an upbeat citizen of the skies.

"Normally when there's an eclipse there's no clouds in the sky," Adorno said. "That I read on a NASA site."