A couple more tests gave him confidence it was safe to leave the pod and explore outside. Jason crawled through his tiny airlock and stood up outside....ason's first impression was nothing had changed and had had not gone anywhere at all. However, when he went to where he had parted the truck a few feet away he made a significant discovery. The truck was gone! Even more significantly, there were no tracks to indicate his truck had ever been there. This provided Jason with the first conclusive. All of them were very large for my old time and simply gigantic at this time. Malls were just starting to be built and I used a great deal of clout with the money I was able to borrow and again built very large.Zehrs was next, then Home Depot and Starbucks. Apart from the last, all were built very large. Starbucks would just be very numerous.I had received many awards for my work. Learned journals had no problem printing anything I had to say. I was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Medicine and. But after what I have experienced and what we have learned, such a thing would be utterly ridiculous. Instead, Karla, may I have your blessing? Please?"With that he dropped to his knees before her as did his fellow churchmen.Karla was nonplused. But then she said softly, "May the Lord bless you and keep you. May He make His light to shine upon you. May He guide you and protect you for the rest of your days, until you join Him in Heaven for all eternity. We ask this, O Lord, in the name of Jesus. Clive had once tried to talk me into letting him take some glamour photos of me, before I was married, it didn't come to anything but it was a very tempting.We set off on foot, it was only a few hundred yards we had a drink to be sociable and bought the wine, on the way back the heavens opened, thunder, lightening and awfully heavy rain. We were in the middle of the green and made a dash for the closest shelter which happened to be Clive's house.We fell through the door laughing, the water.