Restless and in desperate need of adventure I quit my job at an insurance company to travel west with a couple of guys I smoked pot with scandalizing my family.
The nature of catastrophe is after all reasonably unvarying in the way it ruins destroys wounds and devastates. But if something can be learned from the event - not least something as profound as the theory of plate tectonics - then it somehow puts the ruination into a much more positive light.