Today’s TTT is characters we’d go on vacation with. But first, some teases!

And now, in a never-before-attempted bit of meta-metaphysical wizardry, the real Neil Patrick Harris will reappear to bedazzle you with a magic trick. And by “you,” we mean you, you. And by “we,” we mean me, Neil Patrick Harris.

Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography

“And you think exactly the same,” he said firmly, and stared out his elder, eye to eye. “When I want to hear my echo,” said Brother Cadfael, “I will at least speak first.”

“Your prior will be wise,” said Urien, taking his leave, “to take a lesson from yonder young fellow. Leading and coaxing pays better than driving in these parts.

A Morbid Taste for Bones, Ellis Peters

So, characters I’d go on vacation with..

(1) Hermione Granger. No need to do any planning, because she’ll know everything anyway. Train timetables? When will the sun set? When the M5 is busiest? All covered. She can also punch bullies in the face — not to mention magicking us out of any serious problems.

(2) Isaac Asimov. “Waitaminute,” say you, “Asimov is a person, not a character!” That’s where you’re wrong. Asimov made himself a character in one of his novels, Murder at the ABA. So, I can cheat a skosh and have Asimov’s good humor and inexhaustible skill at conversation. Would be interesting to have a trivia contest between him and Hermione.

(3) Uhtred of Bebbanberg. This Saxon warlord raised by Vikings can not only defend our traveling party from any assailants, but if we grow bored he can regale us with battle-stories.

(4) La’an Noonien Singh. I think she was in Star Trek SNW: The High Country, so I can count her here. I’d bring La’an for her security mindset and singing. Also, she’s played by Christina Chong.…

(5) and (6) Jeeves and Wooster. Obviously. Comic relief from Wooster, cocktails from Jeeves. We also get singing and piano playing with HughLaurie-Wooster.

(7) and (8) Tom Sawyer and Anne of Green Gables. Is it really a proper vacation if there aren’t adorable children creating chaos? Tom could build a boat, too.

(9) and (10) The Old Man and the Boy, from Robert Ruark’s accounts of his and his grandfather’s adventures in the 1920s. The Old Man was hilarious, and Tom and boy-Robert would get along splendidly, I think.