They were unhappy with their life on the east cost, they had been born and raised on ranches in the tops of the mountains of southern Utah. However, Jeff's work made it seemingly impossible for him to retire in the tops of the southern Utah mountains. It was quite a surprise, when they accidently went through a TIME TUNNEL on their way home in the top of the mountains in a little valley called Deer Valley. This puts them back about a thousand years. They meet and became very good friends with Dry Water and his people. They learned a lot about there life, language, customs and way of living as they spent time with their Native American friends. It takes a year for them to figure out how to return to their own time.