Going Places, Without Ever Moving
Tired of having to move around all day--walk over here, look over there, fly in this direction--well then check out these sites and sit back and let them do the moving for you. From the fantastical to the more every day, these sites take you around while you actually sit on your ass, moving nothing more than a finger or two.
First, this site features a beautiful room with high painted ceilings, ornate woodwork, thousands of books, and more than a few other "patrons" to observe.
Use your mouse to scan a panoramic view of the scene.
Including the ceiling, and even the floor, not pictured here.
When that's lost its charm, you can venture here and travel along with a cartoon man as he gives up on the bus and takes the scenic route to a vacation in paradise.
With the aid of your arrow keys, the man flies up into the clouds, where birds and planes and flying chairs dwell.
He can fly around in that realm encountering all manner of atmospheric oddity, or he can keep soaring upward, eventually crossing over the threshold of space, as constructed by a friendly monkey, where tiny plane-flying lodge-members apparently dare not to go.
In space, you and he can encounter more bizarre inhabitants, and rock out with some of them.
Then it's upward again, until you find yourself and your companion coming back towards land via an ocean with, you guessed it, more weird stuff.
Until through its boundaries you burst, to land on a sunny beach...
to be serenaded by a hula dancer and another disturbingly cheerful monkey.
No longer will you be kept from taking that journey from the bus stop to a remote beach in the Keys, via space and the sea, that you've always heard your friends and co-workers talking about because now you can do it virtually by, literally, lifting a finger.
Similarly, you've seen all those national Geographic specials about Fish City, the Goblin Forest, Land of the Gray Gandhis and Dino Kingdom, and you've always been envious of those who've been able to go. Well now you can too, virtually, with the help of this site.
It starts you off here, and you can zoom forward...
or backwards.
It doesn't really matter, but let's press forward, back through the castle suspended on the edge of a city ruled by giant lizards and fish that, until now, you've only seen on TV, through the opening into another dimension.
Follow the path through a lovely field
and into a dark wood filled with goblins
and trees that want to kill you.
From there, press on through a less-deadly forest and into what can only be a very peaceful land
of Gandhi-like men and their temple
which up close does look kind of mean, but you can travel through it nonetheless to find
um, a man hiding around the corner from a weird dinosaur thing?
Continuing on from there brings you full-circle and back to the city of Fish and Lizards. A place you never thought you'd get to until now, with the help of this site.
Or hallucinogenic mushrooms if you have any.
