[Top Ten Tuesday] Ten Places Books Have Made Me Want To Visit

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish. 

Top 10 Places Books Have Made Me Want to Visit

Ooooohhhhh... I love to travel and books have offered no shortage of encouraging such shenanigans! When I say I love to travel, I mean it. If it were up to me I would buy an around the world ticket and never settle down until I physically could not do it anymore. Since I have to have a little something called a job I've negotiated, with myself, one international trip per year. 

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New York City

The book that started it all! I read this as a kid in elementary school and I have never forgotten it. New York City became the place I HAD to visit. I still daydream of fishing for coins out of fountains and hiding in bathrooms. However, I am a fanatic budgeter!

There are PLENTY of other NYC novels that have inspired my trips over the years but entirely too many to list here. 

Bonus: This book also inspired my trip to Bologna years and years later. 

Amsterdam

  

 Each of these have inspired me to visit Amsterdam. It's one of the few major Euro cities I have yet to visit. The good news is I think I'll knock it out summer 2015!

Bonus: Willem's adventures in Just One Year are worth an around the world ticket. India has never been on my travel wish list but after Willem's Bollywood experience I've been giving India a look over.

Italy

 

I've done Rome, Milan, Bologna, Florence and Pisa but I have yet to make into the soul of Italy, the Tuscan country. I really, really would like to make it back one day to do a homestay/cooking experience. Maybe even pick some olives and grapes. Who knows!

Bonus: I also really loved Liz's adventures in Bali. Adding it to the list!

France

 

I've never been a Paris girl, after visiting twice I swore I'd never go again. After reading Just One Day I'm considering a second trip but only with a significant other. Maybe it is a place for lovers, lovers only. :p

Los Angeles

Another place I've been to a couple times and didn't care for. After reading Sinner I've got a sightseeing list prepped for my next visit to the City of Angels.

Nebraska

  

If there was ever an author who has inspired me to MOVE somewhere it's Rainbow Rowell and her homestate love. Omaha has been on my travel list, thanks to the College World Series, but it's Rowell's setting that make Nebraska seem like a chill place to be. 

Chile

Maya takes refuge in on a remote island in Chile and is surrounded by an amazing community. 

Adding it to the list! 

Seattle / Washington State

  

Blue Like Jazz kicked off my MUST VISIT SEATTLE obsession. In the end Seattle is where Donald Miller feels at home. I have yet to run across a Seattle/Washington based book and hated the scenery. Now if I can only get there!

North Carolina and Her Beaches

  

Thanks to Nicholas Sparks, and UNC basketball, I fell in love with North Carolina long before I moved here. When I moved to NC in 2008 it was my mission to find all the beaches in his novels. I've yet to make it to New Bern where he lives and the setting for The Notebook, but one day. 

The North Pole and all Places Magical

One of my favorite things about reading is that words on pages can transport you to places where books are the only mode of transportation. Without books I would never be able to experience the magic of The Polar Express, Where the Wild Things Are, Mrs. Frizzle's Magic School Bus and numerous other equally amazing places. All the money in the world is no good, but for the same amount as a dinner out I can visit all the places that can't be. In this life at least. ;)

Talk to me:

Where do you want to go and what book(s) inspired you?