LitVenture!

Today we're going to talk about vacationing in new and fun ways. Our examples may shock and titillate you, or maybe just bore you. But this will really be choose your own adventure style, so go ahead and modulate this idea into something you find fun.

This is sort of like vacationing in Total Recall, but it is also like D&D or something. The idea, now that we've announced it for several paragraphs is simply to create vacations that involve a level of role play / play acting. So like, plenty of people are probably wandering around Paris at this very moment seeing the sights and locations of all of the boring, horribly, boring events of the DaVinci Code. I'm sure there are tourist industries for all horrible novels that take place in cool locations. But how much cooler would it be, even with a horrible books like that, if you were actually acting out the narrative in some form or another?

Okay, that example is bad. But, say you were to traipse around Europe in the exact path of Tyrone Slothrop (or as close as you could come to it) from Gravity's Rainbow...but not like just the path, but the modes of transit and conditions of living? Clearly that is too far fetched to be possible, as those conditions don't really exist any more. But I think you get the picture.

So like, if a couple, say, were to travel around the country in a classic 1940's car dressed up and acting like Humbert Humbert and Lolita...well...that would be farily creepy, but it would be a really fun slash funny trip..

I'm sure there are endless variations to this theme. Maybe movies were the easier route to take on this, but I didn't. I just think it would be fun to take a vacation where you're trying to do something more than just be somewhere else, but really try to act and do different things as well. And I mean things different than simply losing your sense of propriety, which is pretty much the current sense of American tourism as I seem to have encountered it. Loss of control is not necessarily what I have in mind when I say different.

So this Summer, hit the road in your finest period piece costuming, your horse and buggy and your favourite novel tucked beneath your arm as your travel guide.

ooooh....also On the Road, and maybe Sentimental Journey.