Explaining the tundra to someone who has never seen or felt tundra is quite difficult. When you walk on it, your feet feel like they are bouncing in and out of a huge mattress. It looks like a perfectly manicured lawn covered in hundreds of species of mushrooms and moss and lichen. Imagine a decorative terrarium, except it covers the entire landscape, not just an office bookshelf. Up close it looks magical- like a clip from Alice In Wonderland. There are little itty bitty hills made of moss, and there are tiny trees made of blueberry bushes. I sometimes just lay on the ground and stare off into the next few yards with amazement of all it beholds.
