| Time Travel Is Lonely | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | John Vanderslice |
| Border: | yes |
| Released: | June 12, 2001 |
| Recorded: | 2000 |
| Genre: | Indie rock |
| Length: | 34:17 |
| Label: | Barsuk |
| Prev Title: | Mass Suicide Occult Figurines |
| Prev Year: | 2000 |
| Year: | 2001 |
| Next Title: | Life and Death of an American Fourtracker |
| Next Year: | 2002 |
Time Travel Is Lonely is the second album by John Vanderslice, released in 2001. Time Travel Is Lonely is a concept album about Vanderslice's fictional brother Jesse Vanderslice as he slowly succumbs to polar madness while living in Antarctica.
In the track "Do You Remember," Vanderslice imagines different possible outcomes for the famous Chinese rebel who held back tanks while protesting for Democracy at Tiananmen Square.
The song "Interlude 2" is based on the 1st Prelude in C from Bach's Well Tempered Clavier.