Good travel stories are not always about the sights and sounds of a new city. They don’t need a natural wonder as a hook. All a good travel story really needs is a beginning middle and end and a person to revolve around. Travel narratives will always be the leading travel stories. From Robert Louis Stevenson and Mark Twain to John Steinbeck and Bill Bryson, they all had one thing in common. They allowed people to live vicariously through THEIR lives. There’s no point in asking someone to live vicariously through Niagara Falls when people are looking to identify with you. These great writers all gave people the opportunity to come along for a ride that they normally wouldn’t have the opportunity to experience which means, for it to be a successful travel story they wouldn’t necessarily have even needed to leave their own hometown. In fact, one of Bill Bryson’s most popular books, “A Walk in the Woods,” features the Appalachian Trail, a portion of which lies only a few miles from his backyard!
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