Lost in cyberspace.

    Oh internet, purveyor of random facts.  Have we created a monster?  How did I get from one thought to another that is so distantly removed from the original?  I'll try to explain what happened here, one step at a time.  Thought process as follows:
     Snowshoeing to Stewart Falls?  How high up on the mountain is it and which road do I take? Will it even be open?  Google Maps, satellite view, Mt Timpanogas.  Get distracted looking at map.  Remember something I saw on a previous adventure, must locate on map.  Exact location unsuccessful.  Initiate street view.  Unavailable.  View user-submitted Panoramia photos from Google Maps.  Zoom out and wander around.  Somehow go from Wasatch front to west shore of Utah Lake.  Continue panning, zooming, etc.  End up viewing Dugway Proving Grounds (DPG) on map.  Read Google user submitted reviews about Dugway and UFO/military conspiracy theories.  Google it.  Read about controversial incident involving a couple thousand nearby open range sheep getting killed from open air biological weapons testing.  Army doesn't accept fault but pays rancher for the dead sheep anyways. Find mention of long since rerouted and closed section of Historic Lincoln Highway passing through Dugway.  What was Lincoln Highway?  Google it.  First continental highway from Times Square, NY to Lincoln Park, San Francisco in early 1910's.  Research to find original route through Utah.  Refer back to Google Maps for tracing route.  Find small town of Cedar Fort.  Curious.  Google Cedar Fort.  Census results and demographics data.  Population < 400.  Cedar Fort on Wikipedia.  Other nearby communities listed.  Click around.  Refer back to Google Maps for reference.  Click on more neighboring towns, all of which are less than 750 residents.  Find a couple that are comprised primarily of remote religious groups.  Google them.  Read about it.  Weird.  Backtrack to Lincoln Highway.  Route passes a springs and wildlife refuge oasis in the middle of the west desert salt flats.  Find it on Wikipedia.  Only source: underground mountain aquifer.  Only output: evaporation.  Read that fish living in the springs are direct descendents of fish that lived in the ancient inland-ocean sized Lake Bonneville.  Back to communities page in Wikipedia.  Click through them.  Read about Mona.  Actually been there once last summer.  Has lavender farms and a lavender festival.  Unusual thing to find in Utah.  Mental note: must discover if they know how to make the lavender lemonade that I love in Oregon.  Read more.  Burl Ives was once jailed in Mona for singing a song that authorities considered to be "bawdy".  Familiar name, but who was Burl Ives?  Link to Wikipedia on Burl Ives.  Well known, actor, writer, singer.  Once blacklisted as a communist supporter during the red scare of the 50s.  Voiced the snowman from 1964's stop motion animated film, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.  Known to Star Wars fans as the narrator of a made-for-tv movie written by George Lucas with the title, Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure.  Ewok Adventure is what I called a movie I watched as a kid.  Click link for Caravan of Courage...  Discover what I remembered was the actual movie title to my childhood favorite, Ewoks: The Battle for Endor.  Realize that I have only ever seen the sequel and that Ewok Adventure was actually the one that I have never seen.
     Look at clock and realize time.  Stand up.  Stretch.  Realize path from snowshoeing to ewoks via Google satellite maps and Wikipedia.  Mind Blown.