I originally started Beaches on Mars near the end of 2019 – thinking about climate issues (although nothing prepared me for 2020) and a theory I had when I was younger. Smaller me wondered if Mars had been humanity’s first home – maybe destroyed due to climate or something else – and that the idea of going to Mars would be more like a return? If all that we can remember is our time on Earth, how would we adapt to this new environment? The whirlwind that is 2020 made me revisit Beaches on Mars and finish it up during quarantine – thinking what would happen if mass space transit became a reality for all of us?