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?
I think Anne Shirley would be so fun to travel with – she would be so genuinely excited for everything!
Yes! She would just make everything seem amazing with her enthusiasm!
Sam was my first pick too!! I thought about putting Anne on my list, but there were just too many other characters to choose from! I also decided to go with ten individual vacations instead of one big group trip.
Here’s my Top Ten Tuesday: https://thissideofstoryland.blogspot.com/2024/04/top-ten-tuesday-characters-id-like-to.html
Sam is the perfect choice!! Lol.
Traveling in a smaller group sounds better to me, too.
Thank you for stopping by earlier.
You have some wonderful “traveling companions” and I’d like to spend time with some of them, too!
Lol thanks Jeanie!!
Anne Shirley is popular today and I completely understand why. Great list!
Yes Anne was getting a lot of love out there!
Miss Marple and Anne Shirley would be a great pair of travelling companions!
I think they were my favorite pairing lol. I could see being at a resort or on a cruise with them.
Anne is getting a lot of love today!
She really did!
LOL, you did put a LOT of thought into this! Well-done! I went a different direction because my memory stinks and it was too much to pull together a list like this.
Lol! I was mentally reviewing this all weekend. I am such a nerd.
you are so right! Samwise is THE BEST traveling companion of all time. My TTT
I love your list! You seem like an adventurous traveler with your choice of companions! I can imagine all the fun you’d have with them!
Haze
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I really would have some pretty cool adventures! I can be adventurous, I never thought about that in relation to my character choices but you are right! I also like slow quiet trips but it would depend on who is with me. Lol.
Samwise is a fantastic choice. I would also love to travel with Anne of Green Gables. Gus and Woodrow would be delightful traveling companions.
Gus and Woodrow would be so fun to tag along with. Lol.
You’re right about Miss Marple. She does seem to know the tea about everyone, doesn’t she? And thanks for stopping by my blog earlier.
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Lol she totally would know it all! It would be interesting to sit and people watch with her.
Marple is a great choice! Nice practical list! That is definitely the way to go!
Lol thanks!! This was a fun first Top Ten Tuesday for me!
Sam Wise would be perfect to take with you. I’m just sorry I didn’t think of him. Excellent choices! ❤️
Oh, I like the way you think! I’m not sure about Daenyres Targaryen, either. But, you have to admit riding a dragon would be pretty cool! And, I like the idea of including Jay Gatsby…the food would be that much better! What a fun prompt!
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It would be awesome to ride a dragon! You wouldn’t need to worry about transportation with that trip. Lol. And Jay Gatsby..can you imagine? Lol.
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.
Thank you! Wendell and Samwise are definitely my top favorites on this list.
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
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Oh Samwise would definitely be the ultimate travel companion!
Right? Lol.
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!
Lol!! That is a good point about Anne. I could see that too! Adult Anne would be cool though. I feel like if Miss Marple was with us, there would be sure to be a murder that occurs near us. Lol.
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!
Lol! I totally agree about Anne – she would make the trip such a treat with her enthusiasm!
Thank you!
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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.
Oh, yes to Sam and Anne! Both perfect travel companions.
I wonder what they would think of each other?