So I end up on YouTube, not knowing really how I got there or why I’m browsing. Maybe I followed a link or maybe I browsed for Pangaea Timelapse Maps or something. I come across a video. It’s expertly made and fairly slick. In essence, it shows a CG globe turning while the sphere grows and shrinks in size, the continents and landmasses shuffling around visibly and forming an airtight, though smaller, planet roughly half the Earth’s size. The land seems to interlock East, West, and at both poles to form an unbroken solid landmass, no oceans. It then expands, the whole earth expanding, the continents remaining the same size, the various features falling into familiar shapes and patterns. The video continues this way: expanding, shrinking, expanding, shrinking, as a man’s voice explains his theory. Well he doesn’t much explain as he does ridicule any thoughts that this ISN’T the way it happened, and the man sounds an awful lot like the Hades character from Disney’s ‘Hercules’ movies.
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I’m back. Some people questioned our trip planning with incredulity, thinking if you centered your week-long stay in California you can’t possibly skip out on the big cities and the “night life”. I say screw that. That state is under-appreciated for its state parks, a fact I will gladly attest with panoramic pictures once I’m done processing them. For the time-being, I compiled a travel log of things we saw and did in a grueling trek filled with highs and lows.
