This post was going to be a visually-appealing post about locations and settings in fiction. I had high hopes for my originally-intended post, not least because I was looking forward to including lots of pictures from my travels.

But two things happened to derail my intentions:

(1) I over-committed and overextended myself, thinking I could cram two weeks’ worth of writing into two days; and

(2) I read Ellis Shuman’s excellent recent post about the important role of location in novels, and it sai...