Dave Evans

Well, the sun went down.

And, of course, we think that happens most days, but some days it happens differently.

And this was one of those sunsets.

I'm driving along Highway 1, the famous California coastal highway near Half Moon Bay, and the sun was going down, and it was dropping.

did knock your eyes out gorgeous in a stunningly cosmic way i've seen so many gorgeous sunsets my my home in santa cruz actually on the water i get to see the sunset almost every day but this one was really blow your brains out amazing so much so that i had to stop the car i stopped the car i got out of the car and then everybody else the entire highway stopped all these people

lined up on the side of the road, standing there gawking at the sunset for about seven minutes until it slipped below the waves.

And then literally a moment after that last little bit of light went below the horizon, you heard this cry, this, whoa!

I mean, the sudden community of sunset appreciators all start looking at each other, hooping and hollering, and the couple about 50 yards north of you come running down because you have to have a shared experience.

You can't do this by yourself.

Like, oh my God, oh my God, did you see that?

Like, oh yes, I totally saw that.

We actually exchanged names and phone numbers.

Once a year, we're going to call each other back and remember the day.

It was literally this astonishing thing.

Then you get back in the car and like, whoa, what was that?

So, yeah, that was a pretty cool sunset.

You know, wonder comes from curiosity and mystery.

The apex of the curious experience is to apply curiosity to something we can't fully understand, of which there are many.

Even if we later will understand the science behind it, that doesn't take all the quality away.

Even on a sunset, I mean, I can go to, you know, a light specialist in the physics department.