Travels through the Pages

 Once again I am going to try to visit all 50 states plus various countries through challenges this year.   The main state-based one is hosted by Lori on her blog EscapewithDollyCas  in her Literary Escapes Challenge.  Use the #LiteraryEscapes when reading books for this challenge.   There is a  FB page to share your reads on and to get ideas from others.  

I have decided to combine my tracking on this page to include the Book Girls Guide challenges for US states and world regions.  They have targeted areas for each month and would also apply to this challenge so it just makes sense to streamline here.  They include reading lists for each of the months on their site and will update each of the lists mid-month before that destination.  So Feb lists will be updated mid Jan.  There's a FB page to interact with other challenge participants.  After you have read a book for the month there is a location to share your read on their site  Intl / US books

Jan  Arctic & Antarctica/ New England MA, ME, NH,   RI, VT

1.  VT  Manchester Christmas by John Gray Blog Post and Goodreads Review 2/16/25 
2. MA A Holiday Yarn by Sally Goldenbaum Blog Post and Goodreads Review 3/11/25

Feb Western Europe / Southwest  AZ, CO, NM, UT, WY

Mar Africa /  Southeast AL, GA, FL, SC, TN

1. TN:  Petals and Poison by Jess Dylan  Blog Post and Goodreads Review 3/8/25

Apr Islands  / Heartland IA, KS, KY, MO, NE

1. Pleading the Fish (Seaside Cafe #7)  by Bree Baker Blog Post and Goodreads Review 4/10/25

May Eastern Europe & Russia  / Northeast CT, DE, NJ, NY, PA

Jun Australia & New Zealand /  South Central AR, LA, MS, OK, TX

Jul   Southern Asia /  Pacific CA, HI, NV, OR, WA

Aug   Northern Asia / Northern AK, ID, MT, ND, SD

Sep Transportation  /  Eastern Appalachian DC, MD, NC, OH, VA, WV

Oct Middle East  / Upper Midwest IL, IN, MI, MN, WI

Nov  North America / US Territories (includes all five)

Dec South America  / Traveling the USA

I have found a European based travel challenge on Rose City Reader which tracks how many European destinations you visit either through the author or the setting.  I am trying for 4 Star  Link for Reviews 

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  FIVE STAR (DELUXE ENTOURAGE): Read at least five books by different European authors or books set in different European countries.

• FOUR STAR (HONEYMOONER): Read four qualifying books. <= Goal

• THREE STAR (BUSINESS TRAVELER): Read three qualifying books.

• TWO STAR (ADVENTURER): Read two qualifying books.

• ONE STAR (PENSIONE WEEKENDER): Read just one qualifying book.

Additionally, on Goodreads there is the Around the World in 80 books which has both US Roadtrip and Global challenges.   The idea is to diversify where your books are set.   There is a perpetual Global one that goes by Circumnavigation.  My global tracker for 2023 is Tourist Travels which meant I could read any books in any order after starting with a US-based book.  There are harder and easier challenges within this global option as well. They also host some prompt-based challenges called Magic Squares.  Many of these prompts are different from most of the other challenges.  

My Circumnavigation tracker   At this point I have traveled to all 9 regions and 46 different countries since 2020.

These are the links to my 2025 travels 

Tourist Travels 2025:  I'm going for Frequent Flier

Here is my US Roadtrip for 2025  

Literary Escape updates on FB

European reading updates 

Book voyage and Read US FB page;  

My book passport in 2025

States Visited so Far: 19/51

Additional Countries:5

European Countries: 2/4

Alabama  

√ Alaska Sail Away Patsy (Meg Butler #1) by Leena Clover Blog Post and Goodreads Review 2/5/25

Arizona   IDEA: Scottsdale Heat (Laura Black Mysteries, #1)

√ Arkansas  Run Rose Run by Dolly Parton and James Patterson Blog Post and Goodreads Review 3/5/25

√ California Seinfeldia by  Jennifer Keishin Armstrong Blog Post and Goodreads Review 3/19/25

Colorado   

Connecticut  

 

Delaware IDEA: the unbearable book club for unsinkable girls by Julie Schumacher / Hope Never Dies

District of Columbia

√  Florida  

1.  When We Left Cuba (The Perez Family, #2) by Chanel Cleeton Blog Post & GR Review 1/15/25
2. Evil by the Sea ( By the Sea #4) by Kathleen Bridge Blog Post and Goodreads Review 2/14/25

Georgia 

Hawaii  

√  Idaho One Potato, Two Potato, Dead by Lynn Cahoon  Blog Post and Goodreads Review 2/18/25

 Illinois 

√  Indiana   And Then, Boom! by Lisa Fipps Blog Post and Goodreads Review 1/22/25

 Iowa 

Kansas IDEA:  Gluten for Punishment (A Baker's Treat, #1)

Kentucky 

Louisiana  IDEA: The Physicists’ Daughter

Maine:  

√ Maryland  The Tell Tale Tarte (5 Ingredient #4) by Maya Corrigan Blog Post and  Review 3/10/25

√ Massachusetts  A Holiday Yarn by Sally Goldenbaum Blog Post and Goodreads Review 3/11/25

√ Michigan The Next Deadly Chapter by V.M. Burns  Blog Post and Goodreads Review 4/4/25

Minnesota 

 Mississippi  

Missouri   

Montana  

Nebraska IDEA: Death by Dissertation

Nevada 

New Hampshire  IDEA:  Mad Honey

√  New Jersey  Silent Nights are Murder (Poppy McAllister #9 ) by Libby Klein Blog Post Review 3/18/25

√  New Mexico  Smolder (Stone Barrington # 65) by  Brett Battles Blog / Review 4/23/25

√ New York  

1.   Everyone Here Is Lying by Shari Lapena Blog Post and Goodreads Review 1/1/25 
2. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving  Blog Post and Goodreads Review 2/10/25

√ North Carolina  

1. The Spook in the Stacks (Lighthouse Library #4) by Eva Gates Blog Post and GR Review 1/31/25
2. Pleading the Fish (Seaside Cafe #7)  by Bree Baker Blog Post and Goodreads Review 4/10/25

North Dakota IDEA: The Night Watchman; See Also Murder; The Children's Blizzard

Ohio  

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 Oklahoma   IDEA: Meera Patel series

√ Oregon  

1. On Thin Icing (Bakeshop #3) by Ellie Alexander
•  Blog Post and Goodreads Review 3/3/25
2. Caught Bread Handed (Bakeshop #4)  by Ellie Alexander
• Blog Post and Goodreads Review 3/19/25
3. Beagles Love Muffin but Murder (Beagle Diner #3)  but Murder by CA Phipps
•  Blog Post and Goodreads Review 4/13/25

Pennsylvania  

Rhode Island  

 S Carolina  IDEA:    

South Dakota  IDEA: Nearly Departed in DeadwoodTennessee  

Texas 

√ Tennesses  Petals and Poison by Jess Dylan  Blog Post and Goodreads Review 3/8/25

 Utah  IDEA:  The Final Arrangement (Flower Shop Mystery, #1)

√ Vermont  

1. Manchester Christmas by John Gray
• Blog Post and Goodreads Review 2/16/25
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√ Virginia  

1. Bound for Murder by Victoria Gilbert Blog Post and Goodreads Review 1/5/25 
2. Stiffs and Swine (Supper Club #4) by Ellery Adams Blog Post and Goodreads Review 1/31/25

√  Washington 

1.  Yeast of Eden (Pancake Cafe #4) by Sarah Fox Blog Post and Goodreads Review 1/20/25
2. The Solace of Bay Leaves (Spice Shop #5) by Leslie Budewitz Blog Post  Goodreads Review 1/21/25
3. Death on Tap (Sloan Krause #1) by Ellie Alexander Blog Post and Goodreads Review 4/10/25

West Virginia  IDEA:  No Filter (Barks & Beans Cafe Cozy Mystery #1)

√ Wisconsin 

1. Public Anchovy #1 (Deep Dish #3)  by Mindy Quigley
•  Blog Post and Goodreads Review 4/16/25
2. Sleep in Heavenly Pizza (Deep Dish #4)  by Mindy Quigley
•  Blog Post and Goodreads Review 4/17/25

 Wyoming  IDEA: Sign Off

US Territories:  

Additional Countries Visited:

Europe:  

1. Hungary:  Golden Hour by Brett Battles   Blog Post and Goodreads Review 1/1/25 
2. England:   Love from Paddington (Paddington #14) by Michael Bond
• Blog Post and Goodreads Review 3/11/25

Africa:

1. Uganda:  The Star Dunes (Explorer Academy #4) by Trudy Trueit 
• Blog Post and Goodreads Review 4/18/25

Asia:

1. Indonesia:  The Paradise Problem by Christina Lauren Blog Post and Goodreads Review 3/31/25

Middle East:  

1. Jordan:  The Double Helix (Explorer Academy #3) by Trudi Trueit Blog Post & GR Review 2/4/25
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