Reader Friday – If you could travel to one place you’ve read about…

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If you could travel to one place you’ve read about in a book, what place would you visit and what book did you read to inspire your sense of adventure?

 

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54 thoughts on “Reader Friday – If you could travel to one place you’ve read about…

  1. My first thought would be Derry Maine just to see Stephen Kings creations come to life. Then after more then a sip of coffee i would love to travel to Thailand. There is a series of books from author Jhon Burdett taking place there. I think I have reread Bangkok 8 and Bangkok Tattoo a few times

    • Not sure why my previous comments vanished into the ether–joe, we need you already! I guess I’d be daring and choose Botswana of The First Ladies’ Detectve Club. But only their version would I want to visit. I think the real Botswana might be a tad rough for this city gal…

  2. Does fantasy count? I’d love to see Oz. All the evil has been vanquished, but the different lands are brilliant, and all the character types fascinate me.

    • Your comment reminded me of the first books that ever swept me away – Westerns – Louis L’Amour & my love for horses. I’ve often thought about what it would be like to ride a horse across our pristine country before roads, fences, utilities & urban sprawl. Thanks, BK.

  3. While most kids my age would say Hogwarts, I’ll be a rebel and say Chrestomanci Castle. I’d love to meet everybody there. Howl’s Moving Castle would be fun, too.

  4. Tough one. I think I’ve been to 43 states and a good 60-70 or so countries, if I were to count and determine which map to apply (several countries having split or joined since my visit(s)). I’m sure my voracious reading as a child subconsicouly influenced this. I always wanted to go to India. Was it at least partially because of the romantic vision put forth in the The Secret Garden/The Little Princess et al? Maybe. Desperately wanted to go to London. Was it because of books? Maybe a little, but maybe it was the rock and roll. I don’t think Paddington influenced my decision to visit Darkest Peru. Or maybe he did. I can say no book made me want to go to Africa because I never had nay interest in going to Africa. Then one day I found myself there for three months, discovered I loved it, and couldn’t believe I’d been missing it for so many years. The one place I haven’t been that I most want to go is Antarctica. The only book I can think of for there is Who Goes There? (made into movies as The Thing). That’s a book/movie I won’t be taking with me on the voyage. 😉

  5. In honor of Grapes of Wrath, I kicked off my first Route 66 trip in Salisaw Oklahoma and did the entire trip while rereading it for the umptieth time. I really really (really) want to redo that trip over about 10 days so I can stop in ever single map dot town and walk the downtown.

    Otherwise, likely New York “in the day” to spy on the Algonquin Round Table before crashing Prof Bell’s party in 1940s Hollywood.

  6. Paris…both at the turn of the century (19th) and again in the 20s. Woody Allen sort of took me there in “Midnight in Paris.”

  7. Well, the entire mound population was so disgusted with the bad magic that they all swore off liquor and became accountants and stock brokers. They subdivided the mound and sold it to developers who are building a series of Faerie Shopping Malls and fourteen Starbucks shops.

  8. LOL, Basil. Can’t top that exchange, but I’d like to go back to Victorian England and the world of Sherlock Holmes. Just for a visit, mind you. The 19th century was no place for women.

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