Category: Forty-Two Places Tour
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Bye, St. Pancras(es)!
More locations that didn’t make the final cut into the 42 places on the Douglas Adams’ London illustrated map from Herb Lester Associates.
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Literary Tourism Alert
In 2015, I took David’s extended tour. We not only walked to the in-town Cambridge sights but as there was only me, he generously drove me out to Buntingford. I got to experience the beautiful Cambridgeshire countryside, plus see both Arthur Dent’s House and the Pub from the 2005 Movie.
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Total Opulence Overwhelm
If you go to Harrods, leave yourself plenty of time to escape. Almost being late for your high tea appointment because you can’t find an exit from the gift shop may be the quintessential privileged problem, but the reality is that it is all too easy to cross the line from fun to overwhelm and…
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Yvette’s Eastercon 2022 Part 1: Safe Today
Another day, another COVID test. I’m safe today. Each swab is an exercise in staying in the moment, not dwelling on the possibility of upset plans, time and energy ‘wasted’ (that’s my mom’s voice in my head), and hardcore FOMO if it turns out I can’t do all the things I want to do while…
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Twickenham with the Baldwin Family
The welcome to Twickenham was warm, even if the weather was chillier than I’m used to.
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Travel Observations
Post-pandemic travel observations so far, traveling while masked and with noise-canceling headphones.
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Side Quests: St Michael’s Mount
The Pilgrim’s Steps were an opportunity to reflect that…well, I was on a pilgrimage. Just of my own making. I wasn’t paying my respects to St. Michael, but I still enjoyed the mystique of the mount, considered holy for hundreds of years.
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November 4 & 6 at 7:30 PM: Yvette in Personal Stories – Return to Live!
On November 4th and 6th I will be sharing personal stories on stage live at the Center Stage Theater. At a 7:30 PM show on Thursday and Saturday nights, I’ll be telling a tale about ‘Kate’s Corner of the Park,’ just one of the many moments that turned me into a Douglas Adams literary tourism…
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Douglas Adams Travel: Pretty, Pretty Penzance
Lurching up the incline, passing shop after shop not yet open for the day, it was easy to imagine how, over centuries, the steep grades gradually got topped off with buildings. Someone willing to hike wanted a good view. Soon, there were neighbors. Then alarmingly, the whole thing was a village dangerously perched in a…
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Douglas Adams Travel: A Lot of Left
Cars are tricky for non-Brits who only find them convenient if they can steer like Zaphod Beeblebrox, with the extra arm they recently had fitted.