Thelma and Louise
Who would I choose to take on a Thelma and Louise road trip?, Howard asked yesterday.
Well, I can think of a few people that would be interesting.
Cyber person: Jen Lemen. We keep planning to meet IRL, but haven’t achieved it yet. But I have a hunch that we would have enough to talk about, and enough in common, to have a wild road trip.
IRL: if this road trip was in the USA, I’d take Lilly Lewin. For all the same reasons as Jen.
Fantasy person: Bill Bryson, of course. Who else? He would point things out I wouldn’t otherwise notice, and make me laugh every ten minutes.
Not in a hundred years person: My friend Henry, who is devoted to getting lost deliberately in foreign places because it’s "more interesting". I have got lost with Henry in Israel, North Wales, North Essex, Northumberland, and one or two other places before now. But a USA road trip – way too big to get that lost. I love him to bits, except when he refuses to read the map…
Who would you take?
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It sounds soppy, but our northern uni trip was such fun, I really think my daughter Luci and I might manage it one day…
Perhaps Henry would care to travel with my spouse, who always believes maps, even when the car track has become a mudbath leading into a river. That time we had to be pulled out by an Italian farmer with a tractor.
i’d go with you anywhere, maggi! you’d be cyberspace pick, too.