Thank you very much for your comments. I'm trying to understand them and hopefully I'll get there :-)
For an alternate phrasing of my original question, and to clarify it for a couple more posters that had questions, here's an analogy that hopefully can be a bit clearer about what I'm trying...
So, the current place Earth occupies, existed 12 Billion Years ago? How about 13, or 14 BY ago? apparently, the universe did not exist more than 13.8 BY ago!