Top Ten Tuesday – Characters I Would Like to Go on Vacation With

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Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. This is my first time participating!

This week’s prompt is :

Characters I’d Like to go on Vacation With (Pretend you’re going on vacation and can bring 10 of your closest friends with you. Pick your vacation spot and tell us who you’d like to bring! Bonus point if you tell us why. Or maybe you like the idea of traveling in small groups, so plan 10 trips or 5 trips!)

I like the idea of small groups, or ten individual trips. Going on vacation with ten big personalities might be too much for me!

Most of these consider to be trips with just that character, unless otherwise stated. I am obviously taking this quite seriously! Lol. Billy and I had a huge discussion about this. We realized that just because we have favorite characters in books, they wouldn’t necessarily be that fun to travel with. So that realization made it tough. And some of them might be problematic. Like I love Roland from Stephen King’s The Gunslinger, but he would probably be hard to travel with. Daenerys Targaryen is super cool but a little crazy too and might have her dragons incinerate you on a whim, Arya is too intense, Cersei would be a total Karen. That all being said, these are my ten!

First, the greatest traveling companion of all time, who is invited on all of my trips – Samwise Gamgee. He is the ultimate trip partner, is he not?

I would also choose Jay Gatsby. I mean, he would more than likely foot the bill, would be up for anything, and would be a lot of fun. It would be even better if I could travel back to the twenties for this vacation – I have always thought it would be the cat’s meow to be a flapper.

My first pairing! Miss Marple and Anne Shirley. This duo would be so fun to travel with. Anne would be so enthusiastic and just love everything that we did, romanticizing the entire journey which would be very refreshing, while Miss Marple would be an intelligent, clever companion, who would know all the tea regarding the other people vacationing around us.

I of course had to include Woodrow Call and Augustus McCrae. You really can’t have one without the other. If you had one, it would be just too much. Too much Gus or too much Woodrow would not be fun. Together though, they balance each other out! Gus is around for the good times and Call for when you feel like being quiet.

Anna Pigeon. I know she is flawed and maybe not super duper fun, but can you imagine traveling to a National Park with her? There would be no one better. She is a very knowledgeable park ranger, and when you inevitably stumble onto a murder, she could not only solve the mystery but she could defend you as well. Since she is rather anti-social you would also have a lot of personal space when you wanted to just hang out at the campsite or cabin and read. Also, she would be a nice companion around a campfire too. I bet she would have some good stories to tell!

Davos Seaworth. He would be an awesome travel companion, especially if you decided to take trip by boat. I am sure he has a ton of cool stories, he is good natured and non-judgmental, he is smart, he is brave. He wasn’t a flashy character and I think often overlooked, but I really liked him. And since I have decided this trip is on a boat, we may as well bring Tress. She is adventurous and likes dishware as much as I do.

This is probably my favorite on the whole list! Wendell Bambleby! His character is so much fun! He has become one of my all time favorite characters, ever. Charming and funny and can talk to anyone and anything, is magical, likes cake which is always a plus, and he is tidy. I mean I could go on and on, but I think this is enough said. He is also invited on all of my trips!

And phew, I made it through my first top ten Tuesday! What about you? Which book characters would you like to go on vacation with?

40 thoughts on “Top Ten Tuesday – Characters I Would Like to Go on Vacation With”

  16. I love all of these ideas, but especially Samwise (obviously, he’d be the best vacation partner ever), and Wendell Bambleby! I really struggled with the topic for this week, but you did such a wonderful job with it. I don’t know all of the books, but for the ones that I did, you made some perfect choices.

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  17. That’s a great point. I tend to like the more colorful, energetic, sassy characters in books, but those aren’t the types of people I hang out with in real life. Those kinds of people exhaust me, so a vacation full of them would not be ideal! LOL

    Happy TTT (on a Wednesday)!

    Susan

    http://www.blogginboutbooks.com

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  19. Samwise is the perfect companion! I went back and forth on Anne. I love Anne but I suspect in real life young Anne would drive me crazy with all her poetry and tangents. Adult Anne would be pretty fun though and Miss Marple is always a good choice – as long as we all steer clear of the murders!

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  20. RAIN CITY READS

    You have some great picks on your list this week! I like that you included Lord of the Rings – I don’t know why that didn’t occur to me, but now that I see it – of course! I do have Anne from Anne of Green Gables on mine. I feel like she’d be such a great companion for making me stop and notice all the wonderful things going on around me! And I adore Miss Marple. I’m in awe of her sleuthing, of course, but also I just think I’d enjoy hanging out with her. We could knit and natter about the goings-on around us! Great list!

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  22. Oh my gosh what a fun list.

    Anne and Miss Marple would be so much fun but you also have some other great suggestions to travel with. Even though I haven’t read some of the books, I know they’d be fun to travel with.

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