Primarily along the coast of southern England, teams were dispatched on foot or aboard small crafts with LRH sketched maps of minor archaeological sites drawn from whole track memory. That is, without aid of local historical guides or previous investigation, Hubbard Geological Survey teams were directed to long-submerged or buried ruins on and around the Sussex coast. In the main, sites were Anglo-Saxon or Roman and insignificant. But having determined the location of those sites solely from whole track memory—which is to say, having recalled specific features of a two-thousand-year-old landscape—Ron was able to successfully direct his teams to otherwise forgotten ruins. Of course, the ramifications are enormous—scientifically, religiously and philosophically enormous. Yet setting aside the greater significance of what whole track memory implies, let us continue south to Las Palmas in the Canary Islands where his vessels were to receive a final fitting, and thence on to the Spanish port of Valencia and the formal commencement of Ron’s “A Test of Whole Track Recall,” or what is best remembered as his Mission Into Time.

With the Avon River as Ron’s primary expeditionary vessel and Enchanter as scout, survey parties would finally touch upon several Mediterranean ports. In the main, however, sights primarily focused upon Sardinia, Sicily and the coast of Tunisia. Historically, of course, these are among the world’s richest waters, with continual traffic for at least some five thousand years; while Sicily, in particular, had been much disputed and repeatedly built upon. Of particular interest, however, were later Greek, Carthaginian and Roman-Phoenician remains from approximately 200 b.c. to a.d. 300. Moreover, what with infamously restrictive excavation ordinances along virtually all European and North African shores, attention lay not so much on the recovery of artifacts as the location of neglected remains.