My vision of time travel is that we don't get to choose the time we're traveling to - that's the scary part. Have you read Daphne Du Maurier's "The House on the Strand?" The way it worked in that story defined my impression of how it works, and the protagonist popped up into the 14th Century. It was dangerous because in modern day there was a railroad where a house had been, so if he wasn't careful, he'd come back to modern times in front of a train. There's also "The Time Traveler's Wife" - were he popped up naked so was always lurking in bushes. My recall of it was that the time period he popped into was his wife's lifetime - he'd time travel to when she was a child, and then back to when she was an adult. Louis L'Amour wrote "The Haunted Mesa." Oh, his writing drives me nuts - it's a big thick book, but he recaps the story every 10 or so pages - as if he expects his readers to have very short memories - or... he got paid by the page. In that one, there was a blurry place on the mesa, I pictured it to be like how the air seems to waver in very dry, hot places, that was the portal. I didn't care for the rather far-fetched story once people went through the portal, just liked the fact that there WAS a portal because having been in the mesa country of the Four Corners, I can believe such a thing could exist. But I don't want to be popping up in Anasazi times because they lived in those cliff dwellings and I'm afraid of heights.

Rex would have been interested in this since he was determined to dig through to China. My yard will never be level again. I tried the globe method and I ended up in the ocean but perhaps I wasn't doing it right.

That's one of my favorite fantasies! I always tell that Kevin Knows guy here on MyBloggers that if I dug through I'd come out in his yard in Australia. The other favorite fantasy is time travel, but I'm kind of afraid of that one.

I'm happy just where I am and I love summer--don't want to walk into Winter!!
PS Get a job you like!

very interesting. Could one do the same using a regular globe and eyeballing an imaginary line through to the other side? Sort of place a finger on your location, and place a second finger on the other side at the same latitude? Yes? xx, T