Susan suggested that they all go to the moon for a while. They had seen an advertisement that made it seem like a "Happenin' Space". The low gravity had been an attractive advantage to folks from earth for hundreds of years. Eventually the moon had been built over completely with thousands of resort hotels. The ride itself was very gentle. Since they used the time=travel machine they did not have to use spacesuits or experience the "G" forces of blasting off in a spaceship. It had been programmed to re-set time every 1/100th of a second so the vacuum of space did not have a chance to suck all the breathable air out of their lungs and cause them a horrible death. This was an extremely important feature for the tourist business. People simply would not go if they had to deal with all that annoying blast-off stress. The competition from Theme-Park AFRICA forced the moon trip designers to make it comfortable from start to finish.

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As they floated away from the Earth they looked outside and saw this pastoral scene.
The time machine caused a distortion in space=time and that is exactly what it looked like.

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They were greeted by the employees of Disney/Moon and shown the check in counter. All the employees were dressed in "quaint" costumes of Germany of the 1800s. Leather-shorts and empire dresses.
Pete said: "Do the goofy costumes of the employees give you the creeps? Are these grinning freaks really the GESTAPO in disguise ? And what is that music?" Then they all noticed it. Piped into the air by hidden speakers was... The dreaded SMALL WORLD THEME...

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"ARRGH !" screamed Sue... "look out!" The amazing Brittany Spears robot was approaching... "I'll show you to your rooms" She squeeked. At this point our friends started running away as fast as possible. They saw a sign that said:

They made emergency ticket purchases for the very next machine going anywhere. BY COINCIDENCE it was heading to a newly discovered planet in the Perseid cluster named for the astronomer that had discovered it... "Fred"... It was accepting settlers for a new mining colony. WHY BE CHOOSY? "Let's GO!
They overheard a couple of ladies in line... "I heard that there is nothing to DO there, but the pay is good and they let you eat CHEW_Z all day and dream you are Perky Pat..." (the basic plot of a fabulous Philip K Dick story... I recommend that you read the original..."The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch")