Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl
Today’s Prompt: Books About/Set In Places on My Bucket List
Oo I love this one! Now, how to narrow this down? *thinkthinkthink*
Iceland (Secret Nights and Northern Lights) has been a bucket list country for me for a long time. Knowing it is just a six hour flight from me, which doesn’t seem to bad, especially with no layovers, makes it seem slightly within reach? I would love to see the Northern Lights there. One reason I liked this book so much is that I feel like I learned along with the main character about places to see within the country.
The Giraffe Manor Hotel in Nairobi (Tea with Elephants): Talk about a dream!!! Ever since I learned this place existed I have wanted to go, but it is very expensive so I will have to just keep dreaming. While this book isn’t quite the same thing, it makes me think of a trip like that. And this series sounds really fun! I have this book on my potential Summer TBR.
Chincoteague: Technically, I have been here, but so briefly and I was so young that I don’t remember. So I want to “go back” and see it, and I want Wyatt to see it too. I have been saying it for years now, we just need to do it!
Peru (Secret of the Andes): I have never read this book, but I think about reading it all the time, especially with Wyatt. Lol. Maybe this summer. I feel like Peru is magical, with deserts, mountains, and a rainforest, and would just be so beautiful and diverse to visit, with so much to see and do.
Italy (Every Time I Go on Vacation Someone Dies): I would love to go to Italy. Anywhere in Italy, just send me there!
Loch Ness (Nessie Quest): I love cryptids, and the Loch Ness Monster is my favorite! I don’t believe in them (or do I?) but I would love to visit Scotland, and while it would be neat to see my family who lives there and see where my grandma and her family came from, I would really like to visit Loch Ness. And Edinburgh, just throwing that in there too.
Cornwall (Rebecca): I have no idea why I want to go to Cornwall so badly. I just do. I think I love the whole seaside of it, the history of the smugglers and the coves, and I find myself drawn to books set there.
California/Sequoia National Park (Kildee House): Ok, this is a place I have been but it is a bucket list for me to take Wyatt there to see the giant redwoods. They are so awe inspiring and amazing to see, I know he would love it too! I loved Kildee House, even though it made me cry a few times!!!
Japan (The Curious Kitten at the Chibineko Kitchen): I chose this book in particular because while Tokyo seems like it would be neat, I would not want to be there long. I would rather visit quieter, more rural areas.
The Shire (The Hobbit): I would like to visit the Shire. Or live there. I could very easily be a hobbit..
And that is it from me today! I hope that whatever you do, you do something that makes you smile!
Still Life, With Cracker Crumbs.. 
This is such a fun list! I love the idea of seeing Loch Ness in person, I’m sure it’s a little eerie. And the Misty of Chincoteague book takes me way back, since I had a copy when I was a kid😁
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I am not sure I would take a boat onto the loch, but I would definitely want to go look at it. LOL. And yes! A bit of nostalgia with that one!
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Loch Ness would be a very cool place to visit!
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Right??
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Oh gosh I have so many places on my bucket list that it would be hard to narrow down my book list too– I definitely thought the setting to Every Time I Go On Vacation Someone Dies sounded wonderful as did One Italian Summer (even if I didn’t enjoy the story line that setting sounded AMAZING!
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Italy would be a dream come true! My cousin went there last summer and it sounded amazing!
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I would love to make it back to Italy someday and see more of it!
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Ugh it would be such an awesome dream trip!
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Scotland is near the top of my bucket list
Thanks for sharing your #TTT
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I would love to see it. 🙂
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Chincoteague!!! This is majorly on my bucket list, and I would LOVE to make it for a Pony Penning, although I probably can’t actually bring one home so that might not be quite as fun, haha … The long tunnel-under-the-bay drive makes my brain twitchy though, and I’m not sure there’s a way to avoid it. But Chincoteague!!!
Also the Shire. I could 1000% live there.
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I have been dreaming about going back for ages and ages now!! And you would have to get a pony, for both of us. LOL. I have to live vicariously through you when it comes to farm life!
Tunnels like that are horrifying, I agree. I was just telling Wyatt and my niece about the Detroit-Windsor tunnel that goes under the Detroit River between our countries. We took it a few times when I was a kid and it scared the crap out of me. I don’t think I could do it now.
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Ooh yes, The Shire, Nairobi and Peru! I’d so love to visit these places too 😍
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I think would be so cool!
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Seems like there would be SO many amazing views and things to see in Italy. That’s one place I would love to see too. 🙂 Thanks for visiting my list today!
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I’ve been to Italy a couple of times, but it’s still on my bucket list! Such a beautiful country with so many places to see. I love the sound of Tea With Elephants, it’s gone straight on my TBR
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This is a great list, Erin. I actually went to Loch Ness when my daughter and I visited Scotland several years ago. We did a boat tour, and then the museum. It was a lot of fun. I hope you get to some of these places and your son does as well.
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