On the Banach-Mazur compactum, is the map $p \rightarrow (\Bbb R ^2,\| \cdot \|_p )$ a geodesic?

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Let $Q(2)$ be the Banach-Mazur compactum of two-dimensional normed spaces (over the real numbers). Consider the map $\sigma : (0,+\infty) \rightarrow Q(2)$ defined by $\sigma(p) = (\Bbb R ^2,\| \cdot \|_p )$, is $\sigma$ geodesic? I don't even know how to calculate/approximate the distance between $(\Bbb R ^2,\| \cdot \|_p )$ and $(\Bbb R ^2,\| \cdot \|_q )$ for $p$ and $q$ $\ $ "close enough". Maybe I should start with weaker questions like "is this map continuous?".