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2025 Travel Journal

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Guatemala City Spell and Search
November 1, 2025 - November 30, 2025

Blood Will Tell by Dana Stabenow
11.1.25

City - "the city of Anchorage" p 23
America - "the largest one in North America" p. 48
Zone - "buffer zone around the creeks" p, 179
District - "state senator for the Park district" p. 91
Fountain - "on the edge of the fountain" p. 218
National - "twenty million acres of national park in Alaska" p. 4
Culture - "The land is my culture" p. 165
Cathedral - "the living room had a cathedral ceiling" p. 55
Post Office - "a log cabin Post Office" p 23
Architect - "designed by an Outside architect" p, 181
Relief - "much to Kate's relief" p. 168
Map - "a stack of maps two and three foot square" p,182
Complex - "it was a complex, convoluted issue" p. 16
Ancient - Mario Brothers is, like, ancient" p. 153
Buried - "his face buried between her shoulder and her neck." p. 51

The Murders at Clarion Castle by Anna Elliott 11.2.25

Central - "a single overhead bulb cast a weak, spectral glow over the central area" p. 40
Historic - "following historic meetings with Churchill and
Roosevelt" p. 285
Plaza - "surrounded by a plaza and several shops" p. 83
Rotating - "rotating his whiskey glass absently" p. 65
Zero - "making her odds for escape exactly zero percent more favourable" p. 11
Arch - "it's entrance marked by an ivy-covered trellis arch" p. 221
Ruins - "coded fragments they had found at the abbey ruins" p. 70
Ceremonial - "it looks almost ceremonial" p. 226
Mound - "useful objects which she'd hidden underneath the mound of stuffing that the mice had spilled out of the gnawed on footstool" p. 166

Portrait of an Unknown Woman by Vanora Bennett 11.10.25

Civilization - "you think civilization is everewhere" Loc610
Palace - "redbrick western tower of Lambeth Palace" Loc 748

Bonded in Death by J.D. Robb 11.11.25

Metropolitan - "stunning portrait in a place of. honor and wonder in the Metropolitan Museum of Art" p. 359
Pyramid - "something that looked like a three legged pyramid" p. 41

Hostage by Eli Sharabi 11.15.25

Engineer - "My dad's an engineeer" p. 103

The Black Wolf by Louise Penny 11.16.25

Kilometer - "They'd walked half a kilometer into the woods" p. 84

Derailed by Leena Lehtolainen 11.27.25

Guacamole - "I licked some guacamole off my lip" p. 124

Words to Choose From:
Guatemala
Maya(n)
Fusion
Casa
Mima
Oasis
Art Deco
Geography
Ciudad
Cayala
Trendy
Vibe
Kaminaljuyú
Agricultural

São Tomé Spell and Search
December 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025

The Correspondent by Virginia Evans 12.1.25

Tropical - "sky that bright, tropical blue" p. 55
Fort - "lives in Fort William, Scotland" p. 157
Museum - "take me to the Spy Museum" p. 65
Lighthouse - "I am reading "To the Lighthouse" by Virginia Woolf" p. 191
Terrace - "2 Hamilton Terrace, London" p. 239
Gravestones - "to see the gravestones of my parents" p. 112
Independence - "only had our annual Independence Day party here in France on the fourth" p. 270
Square - :the square mansions on the Annapolis side." p. 1
Twins - "John and Douglas are twins, and were born in1948" p. 194
President - "how much I like President Obama" p. 20
Palace - "to see Buckingham Palace" p. 40
Pink - "born at dawn under a pink sunrise" p. 57
Chocolate - "pot roast and a chocolate pie" p. 4
Laboratory - "The laboratory will dispose of your DNA" p. 80
Cafe - "the Back Porch Cafe in Eastport" p. 78
Gardens - "just near the Tuileries Gardens" p. 272
National - "a case that ascended to the national stage in 1982." p.21
Park - "a small fire in a park one evening" p. 268
Plug - "you plug in an address and adhere the device to the windshield with a suction cup" p. 18
Blend - "the oil and vinegar blend I use" p. 228
Stew - "I'm sitting here chatting to Stew about the whole thing" p. 164

Sulfur Springs by William Kent Krueger. 12.2.25

Paradise - "paradise from the rest of the world>" p. 174
Grace - "Grace Methodist Church in Cadiz" p. 64
Crop - "He was a crop duster" p. 113
Bean - "set the beans in front of me" p. 212
Grande - "near the Rio Grande" p. 45
Needle - "held a needle in his hand, sewing up the wounds" p. 96
Tuna - "tuna sandwiches and cold beer" p. 277

Murder in the Bookshop by Anita Davison. 12.3.25

cocoa - "I collected the empty cocoa cups at around ten o'clock" p. 260
factory - "the boss at the Cherry Blossom Factory took some convincing I weren't no burglar" p. 151

Amanda by H. S. Cross 12.5.25

Guinea - "in an envelope with a guinea" p. 102
Our Lady - "a woman was praying to our Lady" p. 23


Words to Choose From:
São Tomé
Principe
Gulf
Portuguese
Colonial
Eclectic
Plantation
Roça
Monte
Conservation
Obo
Rainforest
Pico Cão
Iconic

Fifty Nifty US States: Michigan
3 months from start

TASKS

√1. Number: 26th State to Join the Union
* Read a series book #2, #6, or #26 Heart, Be at Peace by Donal Ryan. 11.23.25 is the #2 book in the Rust series.

√2. State Animal (Mammal): White-tailed Deer
* Read a book with a title that starts with the letter W or D (ignore A, An or The) Derailed by Leena Lehtolainen 11.27.25

√3. State Bird: Robin Redbreast
* Read a book with a predominantly RED cover (post cover). The Black Wolf by Louise Penny 11.16.25

√4. State Flower: Apple Blossom
* Read a book with an MC whose first or last name starts with the letter A or B (share name). Adele in American Sky
by Carolyn Dasher 11.25.25

5. State Tree: White Pine
* Read a book by an author whose first and last initial can be found in WHITE PINE.

6. Official State Nickname: Great Lakes State
* Read a book where the first letter of every word in the title can be found in GREAT LAKES STATE (2 Word Minimum).

√7. Popular Attraction: Mackinac Island
* Read a book set on an island (tell us where). Bluebird by Sharon Cameron 11.19.25 is set on the island of Manhattan, New York.

8. Must Try Food: Mackinac Island Fudge
* Read a book with something sweet found on the cover (post cover) OR read a book with the word FUDGE found in its text (share text).

√9. Weird Fact: Two Peninsulas
Michigan consists of two separate peninsulas surrounded by four of the Great Lakes. The Mackinac Suspension Bridge, completed in 1957, is the only connection between the two areas. Some maps have completely omitted Michigan's cherished Upper Peninsula or erroneously identified it as part of Wisconsin or Canada. In the 1970's there was a movement to make the Upper Peninsula a separate state called “Superior.”

* Read a book written by two different authors (share both names)
The Harvest Festival Murders by Anne Elliott and Charles Veley 11.21.25

10. Optional Bonus Task
* Read a book that takes place in Michigan.

or help finding a book set in Michigan, check out these two GR lists.
https://www.goodreads.com/places/1083...
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

Check out this great site to hunt out books in specific locations:
Home: https://www.mappit.net/bookmap/countr...
Michigan: https://www.mappit.net/bookmap/region...