Going South: Big Sur

“The empty blue sky of space says, ‘All this comes back to me, then goes again, and comes back again, then goes again, and I don’t care, it still belongs to me.’”
― Jack Kerouac, Big Sur

In the winter of 2017, extreme rain fell on Big Sur, California. Mountains ravaged by drought and fire could not hold the water. One of the main bridges on Highway 1 collapsed. Access to Big Sur was cut off from the north. About 30 miles to the south, the largest landslide in Big Sur history buried the hig...