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11.22.2016
Favorite place you've traveled
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Are we speaking physically? Or literaturely?
Just kidding.
My favorite place that I've traveled was to Salem, Massachusetts. Home of the witches and the ever-famous Hocus Pocus.
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I journeyed there this past October and fell in love with the magical, mysterious place that is New England. Not only do all of the town names mimic ye old England—which is trippy, and kinda feels like reading a lesser known book that's a rip-off of a popular franchise—but the area itself is steeped in history. It's effing ancient. And I love it.
The oldest houses were from the 1600's. Say, what?!
Salem itself was a teeming mass of cultural chaos. Cultists and witches thrive there, yes, but so does a vein of social justice. No one is forgetting anytime soon how a handful of innocent people lost their lives because of a few key persons placed in positions of power. It was a lot to chew on. And I found it incredibly relevant. I cried.
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While we were in MA, I also got the chance to visit Louisa May Alcott's home.
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And I met a cat in the parking lot of The House of the Seven Gables, who loved on me a bit and reminded me of Thackery Binx.
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It was double fun for me to visit Salem because last year, I wrote a short story about a faery who lived there. She dug up a witch because she wanted the teeth. It was called, Over Your Grave.
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And now New England has become the setting for my current WIP, a gothic novella. So it is, as of this moment, my favorite place that I've traveled! There. I labeled it.
