User blog comment:Meganoide/The seven routes of the Grand Line, part two/@comment-4555116-20111026181300

I think you are right, but wrong at the same time...

That's what I mean:

I think things are gone like this: 1. Rufy took the first route 2. after Little Garden they left before the Log Pos could have a new position and randomly happen to land on Drum Island.. That could both have been the "next" route for the first path or another one. 3. After Alabasta they should have gone to Skypea but they switched to Yaya temporary thanks for Robin stealing the Yaya's Ethernal Log Pose from Masira, they switched back to the previous route by taking the Knock Up Stream 4. Landing in the Blue Sea they followed the right route, pointed by the log pose, so they couldn't have got lost here. 5. they reached Water 7, then Enies Lobby, then Water 7 again, so they did not change route here 6. Thriller Bark was not supposed to be an Island in the path, so they probably did not switched from the main route here neither 7. Sabaody archipelago... end of the route

So, the only *real* place where they could have switched from the main route is Drum...

And, supposing they did not switch they choose a very hard path... When they reach the White Sea, Gan Fal say that there is an easiest route following two other island, I'll be back on this in a while.

Suppose they did not crossed street with Masira and stole the Pose to Yaya. What would have they done? They couldn't have guessed about the Knock Up Stream as well.. and they wouldn't have been able to sail it without the help of the Saruyama Alliance.

Going back to the "there is an easier route to Skypea"... It should have been in another of the 7 routes, but that means that 2 routes goes through Skypiea merging together which wouldn't make any sense....

what do you think?