Five years ago I went on a quest. A quest to 42 places that occur in Douglas Adams Novels, over 42 days, for my 42nd Birthday.
Beginning on March 7 (The 42nd Anniversary of the first radio broadcast of The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy), you’ll notice some changes to my run-of-the-mill, whatever-is-up-with-me-now, Aspirations Blog. It will be morphing to focus predominantly on The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy 42nd-anniversary celebrations, including the literary tourism guide I have been working on.
If you’ve never heard this story, it’s a pretty good one.
Everyone in my life was excited and helpful when it came to planning my quest. Even strangers got enthusiastic when I told them I was traveling for 42 days, for my 42nd birthday, to 42 places in Douglas Adams books.
I went on a mission to pick up a UK travel guide and one staff person in my fantastic local Chaucer’s Books, shouted, “Come with me!” and ran down the aisle, a flailing arm urging me to follow. She led me to a small literary tourism section, within a UK section, within the vast travel section, and, with a Vanna White flourish, intoned a Nostradamus-like prediction, “This is where your book will be after you’ve written it.”
That is how my trip (which I secretly doubted would even happen), also became a book. A book whose manifestation I doubted the existence of even more strongly than I did the trip.
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