I truly did believe that I could dig to China. My friends and I spent an entire day trying to get there. Unfortunately, once we hit the bottom of their sandbox, we had to start all over out in the yard.
We got about 2 feet down with the shovels before we gave up.
A childhood belief about places

others believed things like this
- When I was in kindergarten, I was convinced I could dig my way out of a sandbox and off to China.Anon
- Me and my sister used to dig holes in the yard because we thought we could dig to china.— Savannah
- I believed until near adulthood that when I was 6 or 7 I had actually flown for several feet in my back yard. — Jane S Poole
- I used to believe that your bottom teeth were actually in your bottom— jez
- When I got my feet measured by the electronic machine, I thought that the machine will squash my feet!— Helen
- I used to believe that went the sun went down, it went down into the ground over in China.— Danielle, AL