How plate tectonics messes with my summer plans

So I've been thinking about what I'm going to be doing over the summer. I could do a show, or I could just start working full time, but what I really want to do is travel. I want to go to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland to see "Hamlet" or maybe to Mexico for a few weeks or so. But what I really want to do is go on a serious trip like Japan or Italy or France. The problem, of course, lies in the distance. Asia and Europe are so very far away from Sacramento. This raises the problems of travel time and travel cost. It would take hours to fly to Europe and Asia and the travel alone would cost almost as much as I make in a year. It is for this reason that the concept of plate tectonics is so appealing to me. The idea that, at one time, the earth was one large continent is a very convenient idea for tired travelers who don't feel like throwing down several thousand dollars for a two week trip. Plate tectonics is the idea that some 255 million years ago, all of the continents of the earth were one large continent called "Pangea", which means "All Earth." Then, over time, the continents spread out across the earth due to sea floor spreading. Sea floor spreading is the creation of new crust when older sea floor is pushed under newer, less dense continental crust. Continental spreading also occurs due to plate subduction, where crust is pushed down into the earth, melts, and creates trenches.

My point is, if continental spread hadn't happened, if all of the continents of the world were still one large continent, I wouldn't be as torn about travel as I am today. If Europe and Asia and the United States were still the same continent, travel wouldn't be as big of a problem. Granted, Japan and Italy and France would not exactly be a hop, skip, and a jump away, but all I would be stressing about would be gas money. I could theoretically drive to Europe! And that's intense.