Antipodes

I have some pictures to post, but instead I'll post this useless trivia. As a kid, didn't you always wonder, "If I tunneled straight down, where would I come out on the other side of the world." Now we can know the answer to that question. The answer, in my case, is somewhat disappointing. If I had tunneled straight down from my house just outside Chicago, I would have ended up in the ocean somewhere between western Australia and the French Southern and Antarctic Islands. Now if Gabe decides to take on this venture and tunnel straight down from our house in Phnom Penh, which I don't think he will as we have only cement to tunnel through, he would end up just south of the Pui Pui Protected forest of Peru which apparently is a mountainous jungle crisscrossed by streams and torrents. Even though it is of no benefit, it's nice to think of such a lovely jungle just below this urban jungle.