How to travel like 3 amazing famous novelist for super family vacations?
Before your take a family vacation, you probably peruse a couple travel books and search the web for interesting details that you and family will like to know. You probably look for interesting details about the locale that will make your trip meaningful. To go deeper and find out more about a vacation destination, reading a novel about the location will open the doors to all your senses. You’ll get a creative view of a place from some of the greatest writers. Feel and see and the place you may visit with writers like Willa Cather John Steinbeck, and Mark Twain experienced interesting vacation locations.
Take a journey with Willa Cather to Mesa Verde, Colorado
Her travel novel to read:
The Professor’s House
Willa Cather (1925)
Jane Hamilton treasures Cather because she “doesn’t know another writer who has that 
power to transport us to the natural world,” in this case America’s great prairies. But it’s the setting of Colorado’s Mesa Verde in her melancholy seventh novel, “before it was discovered before it was a destination,” that appeals most. “She makes plain the grace of solitude in a place that is at once the loneliest spot and yet so strangely peopled” (Vintage, $13).
Visiting Mesa Verde:
What an adventure for the whole family, since Mesa Verde National Park (Spanish for green 
tableland) was established to preserve archaeological sites built by the Ancestral Puebloans who inhabited Mesa Verde for more than 700 years (550 A.D. to 1300 A.D.).
When you visit MesaVerde you’ll explore over 4,700 archaeological sites including 600 cliff dwellings and the mesa top sites of pithouses, pueblos, masonry towers, and farming structure, with more yet to be discovered.
Take a journey with John Steinbeck and visit Baja, California
His travel novel to read:
The Pearl
John Steinbeck (1947)
Steinbeck’s otherwise timeless and placeless fable, in which an impoverished Mexican pearl 
diver unwittingly brings ruin on his family after pulling up the largest pearl known to man, is grounded in its beautiful landscape. “Yellow, brown, orange, white—these are the colors of Baja California,” says David Ebershoff. “Their purity, their earthiness, are reflected in Steinbeck’s simple prose and simple, devastating tale” (Penguin, $14).
Visiting La Paz and Baja, California
What does La Paz means “The Peace”. It’s the capital of Baja California Sur and now has a 
population of just over 200,000 people. La Paz is a small port city on the Sea of Cortez with an important commercial fishing industry.
When you visit baja you’re at the outdoor getaway hub and ecotourism destination. There are opportunities for fishing, kayaking, snorkeling, scuba diving, swimming, biking, and hiking. There’s more since this is a coastal city you can get great fresh seafood, so enjoy the fish, shrimp, octopus, etc. at the many fine restaurants in town.
Take a journey with Mark Twain along the Mississippi River
His travel novel:
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain (1885)
Huck and Jim’s “downstream education,” as Jonathan Raban puts it, is important for 
numerous reasons, but alongside its lessons in the American vernacular and the history of race, there is the canonization of the Mississippi. “The idea of the river as America’s first great interstate arterial highway, at once a place of magical solitude in nature and of fraught encounters with society, survives even now,” says Raban. (Bantam, $6).
Traveling along the Mississippi River
What most people know is that the name ”Mark Twain” is synonymous with the life along 
the Mississippi River. Clemens first signed his writing with the name in February 1863, as a newspaper reporter in Nevada. “Mark Twain” (meaning “Mark number two”) was a Mississippi River term: the second mark on the line that measured depth signified two fathoms, or twelve feet—safe depth for the steamboat.
When you take marktwaintributecruise you’ll travel along the Mississippi like Huck Finn making stops in from St. Louis to Hannibal where your family can take part in behind the scenes tour of the town.
Source: “The 69 Greatest Travel Books of All Time.”cntraveler
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