The Out Of Eden Walk is a truly eye-opening experience. Being able to see someone capture so much land and routes of the original humans just seem so bizarre but so simple at the same time. The first point that I chose was the Afar Badlands. The author is able to recreate the scenery with descriptive words that help the reader get a good understanding of where he is. It is said that there is no camel food, making us believe that it is just pure desert and not much else other than the rocky terrain that they are walking through.

The next point I chose was the arrival at Djibouti. The author mentions that the sanitation situation is difficult because he says that they had to wash themselves at a camel watering station. This is helping us see the determination that the author has to pursue this research. He mentions that the sound of the US fighter jets above them breaks the sound barrier and is incredibly loud, showing the lack of respect that the US has for ancient grounds that are significant to the origin of humanity. But nonetheless, the vivid imagery depicted by the author is once again as beautiful as the last, describing the shore and valley that is forming as Arabia drifts away at the slow rate of 16 millimeters a year.

The final place I chose was the crossing of the Red Sea. This section is incredibly different from the last in the sense that rather than writing a description of what he sees, he used a poem to describe his sea journey. The poem goes into detail about how the motion of the ocean is unpredictable and how we are so minute on a grander scale, using clever wording. It seems almost as though he used a poem for a deeper meaning, one that seemingly looks simple but is incredibly intricate as you break it down. Just how we view the ocean.