Tuesday Travel Tip: Do Your Homework

When I was somewhere in the tween years, my family took a summer vacation that involved driving from Minnesota to Missouri. On the way there, my mother made us read "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" by Mark Twain. It may have just been a way for an English teacher to get her children to read the classics, but it greatly enhanced the vacation. By the time we arrived in Hannibal, Missouri, we knew all about the white picket fence and Becky Thatcher and the importance of the Mississippi River. We took a riverboat ride and learned about how Samuel Clemens took the pen name Mark Twain. We took a cave tour that was just like the caves where Tom and Becky hid. It wasn't completely fabricated for tourists, it was all there, just like in the books, because we were in the boyhood home of the author.

Without reading the book, it would have been a fine vacation, but knowing the significance of things made us a participant. It felt like the books had come to life, and we couldn't wait to read more.

Do your homework before you visit a place. It makes it so much more fun.

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