Journey to the Center of the Earth
Recently, my wife and I went on a “little hike” as I called it (this was before we went on the actual hike). There are a lot of cave systems in Thailand. You may remember the dramatic rescue in 2018 of the boys’ soccer team who were trapped by flood waters in the Tham Luang Nang Non cave system. The caves are beautiful with many stalactites and stalagmites, and it feels like being in another world. Now, let’s be clear. I am not any kind of professional cave explorer. I’m just your average cave tourist. Being in a cave always reminds me of a favorite movie I watched over and over when it came on TV – Journey to the Center of the Earth . Based on the novel by Jules Verne, it’s not only full of caves but also giant mushrooms, rubies and gems, the lost City of Atlantis, a sunken ocean, and even dinosaurs (actually, large lizards filmed up close to appear as dinosaurs but hey, looked like dinosaurs to me as a kid)! The cave we visited recent...