After "tortoising" in the beautiful highlands of Santa Cruz Island, we began thinking about how tortoises got here and why they are so big. Can you imagine the sailors who saw these tortoises for the first time? No wonder, the islands were named after them: "Insulae de Galapagoe" or "the Islands of the Galapagos" back in 1535. (Galapagos means tortoise in old Spanish.) Tortoises make me think about where the Germans got their idea for the design of the Volkswagen, and how Steven Spielberg became rich and famous after he saw them and created E.T.