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YLTO Goes on a Road Trip

The Challenge Rules

I guess I am giving this a go. Especially since I finished one book for a task...time to get the tracking all officially in a thread and not just in a notebook.

First Trip


Site 12, Fountain of Youth, Lewes, Delaware, USA

1. Location: Lewes was the site of the first European settlement in Delaware, a whaling and trading post that Dutch settlers founded on June 3, 1631 and named Zwaanendael (Swan Valley).
Read a book with Dutch in the title or from this list: The Best Dutch Literature

Book Read: The Dutch House The Dutch House - Audiobook

2. About: The tiny gazebo that marks the Fountain of Youth was built by the Lewes Chamber of Commerce in 1937. Curiously, the Fountain is now bone dry, and the rare, leftward-spiral conch shell cup that used to hang from the gazebo (said to boost the Fountain's regenerative powers) is missing.
Read a book set in the 1930's & 1940's.

Book Read: The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek

3. Souvenir: Everlasting Life
Read a book where a character is immortal.

Book Read: City of Bones

Help for Site 12 -Help for Site 12

Trip 2: Site 13, Hawaii Five-O Jack Lord Bust, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

1. Location: Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Read a book set in Hawaii.
Potential Books: Moloka'i , Island of Sweet Pies and Soldiers

2. About: Hawaii Five-0 was an 1968 TV crime series set in Honolulu with Jack Lord as the lead detective.
Read a book that is MPG Mystery and is a police procedural.
Potential Books: 15th Affair

3. Souvenir: Lei - A lei is a garland or wreath that is worn around the neck and is generally made from flowers, though other items may be used.
Read a book where there a number of flowers on the cover.
Book read: Feels Like Family

Trip 3: Site 4, Narcisse Snake Den Sculpture, Inwood, Manitoba, Canada
Oh the irony of me choosing this site, because I hate snakes!)

1. Location: Inwood, Manitoba is neas the Narcisse Snake Dens where In the spring, more than 100,000 snakes come out of their communal winter dens for a mating frenzy before the normally anti-social creatures slither away to summer feeding grounds.
- That right there is the stuff of nightmares for me. I will 110% never visit this place in real life.
Read a book with a snake(s) are on the cover
Potential Book: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

2. About: These two snakes are named Sara and Sam, and are garter snakes.
Read a book with one of the following garter snake types in the title: Garter, Aquatic, Butler, Highland, Giant, Plains, Ribbon.
Potential Books: The Highland Fling, Moonlight Plains, The Little Giant of Aberdeen County, The Girl Giant


3. Souvenir: Snakeskin Boots. Snakeskin is used to make clothing such as vests, belts, boots or shoes or fashion accessories such as handbags and wallets.
Read a book with at least one pair of boots on the cover.
Potential Book: The Book Woman's Daughter

Help for Site 4

Trip 4: Site 8, World's Largest Fiddle, Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada.

1. Location: Sydney, Nova Scotia. Sydney is a name of a city in Canada and Australia.
Read a book where setting of book is different than the nationality of the author.
Potential Books: The Rosie Result, A Lady's Guide to Mischief and Mayhem, The Silent Patient. The Giver of Stars

2. About: The World's Largest Fiddle located on the Sydney waterfront next to the Joan Harriss Cruise Pavilion greets visitors as they arrive via cruise ship. The fiddle and bow reach a height of 60 feet! The Big Fiddle, as many call it, was designed and constructed by Cyril Hearn in 2005
Read a book where the author's initials contain CH in any order
Potential Books: The Paper Magician: The Royal We UnEnchanted ,

3. Souvenir: Fiddler's Bow
Read a book with a theme of music.
Potential Books: Run Rose Run , The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

Reserved for Side Trip?

Side Trip Help

1. Badge 1, Book 1
2. Site 12, Location
3. Link – The Dutch House
4. Listened to Audiobook, Paperback, 352 pages
5. Dutch in title.
6. The word dutch is in the title.

Awesome,Robin! Congratulations on posting your first book. I loved The Dutch House. I hope you did too!

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1. Badge 1, book 2
2. Site 12, About
3. The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
4. Listened to Audiobook, paperback, 309 pages
5. Set in 1930's or 1940's
6. This book is set in the late 1930s.

1. Badge 1, book 3
2. Site 12, Souvenir
3. City of Bones
4. Listened to Audiobook, hardcover, 485 pages
5. Everlasting Life - a character must be immortal
6. There are several characters (not necessarily main characters but characters in the books) that are of the immortal kind, such as werewolves, vampires, demons, and those characters called the silent brothers.

1. Badge 1, book 4
2. Site 13, Souvenir:
3.Feels Like Family
4. Listened to Audiobook, paperback, 393 pages
5. Read a book where there a number of flowers on the cover.
6. There are flowers in bouquet on the cover

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1. Badge 1, Book 5
2. Site 4: Location
3. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
4. Listened to audiobook, hardcover, 528 pages
5. Read a book with a snake(s) are on the cover.
6. There is a golden snake on the cover.

1. Badge 1, Book 6.
2. Site 4: Souvenir
3. The Book Woman's Daughter
4. Listened to audiobook, hardcover, 334 pages.
5. Read a book with at least one pair of boots on the cover.
6. There are boots on the cover.

1. Badge 1, Book 7
2. Site 4: About
3. The Red Ribbon
4. Listened to audiobook, hardcover, 304 pages.
5. Read a book with one of the following garter snake types in the title: Garter, Aquatic, Butler, Highland, Giant, Plains, Ribbon.
6. Title has the word Ribbon in it.

1. Badge 1: Book 8
2. Site 8: Souvenir
3. Run Rose Run
4. Listened to audiobook, hardcover, 439 pages.
5. Read a book with a theme of music.
6. The book is about a rising country music star, and has multiple song lyrics throughout the book. It is also cowrote by Dolly Parton.

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