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fannish5: Name five characters you'd like to take a road-trip with, and where you'd go.

More difficult to answer than you'd think. For example, the first character who comes to mind, the Doctor, is out because while I very much enjoy watching his companions and himself having their adventures, and would love to travel through time and space, I'm too chicken to volunteer for being chased by killer robots or vampire space fish. Bearing this in mind, and discounting characters like Garak who have a thing against confined spaces and thus would not enjoy a road trip very much, here are my choices:

1) Jadzia Dax (DS9). Enjoys travelling, is good company, has a great supply of stories yet also enjoys listening to same. Also, she's good at Klingon martial arts, which should come in handy if we encounter trouble after all, yet no hot head who'd start a brawl.

2) G'Kar (Babylon 5). Also fond of travelling and talking (and a xenophile), definitely more than a match to anything encountered on a road, and prone to write a book about out adventures afterwards, so I don't have to.

3) Marshal Flinkman (Alias). Marshall rarely gets to travel (basically twice in five years of show time), and really deserves to see more of those places the others always tell him about without there being kidnapping or a deadly danger to his friends involved. He's an engineering genius, which should come in handy if the car breaks down (and/or if the car needs some extra equipment), and a complete geek which should make for entertaining conversation. We'd probably argue about the Star Wars prequels (I'm pro, he's contra), but that's okay.

4) Donna Noble (Doctor Who). Also loves travelling and pre-Runaway Bride didn't have much of a chance to. G'Kar would probably hit on her (he has a thing for redheads), but Donna could handle that. If we encounter difficulties finding hotel rooms (say, some hotel or motel is completely sold out or pretends to be), she'd be entirely capable of talking the hotel staff into submission until they provide us with rooms after all. Same if our pre-booked rooms for some reasons aren't available and they pretend not to know what happened. Not with Donna at your side!

5) John Locke (Lost). Pre-show, obviously. Talk about someone whose desire to travel got screwed over by fate. He'd probably be touchy at first, trying not reveal insecurity and loneliness, but between a D&D conversation with Marshal, G'Kar discussing faith and Jadzia talking about several lives would relax with the company. (As we'd have no explosives in the car, there would not be a problem should a disagreement about where to stay and where to leave arise.) Also, he'd probably be familiar with the maps by heart despite never having been at the places, and you can't always trust SatNav.

Which brings me to the destination. See, I've already done road trips through France and Great Britain (i.e. England, Cornwall, Wales and Scotland). Also the Republic of Ireland. And last year parts of Poland. And I do a lot of road trips within my native Germany. Loved those trips, but for my fictional road trip, I would want to do something I haven't done before. So: one day, I want to do the big East Coast to West Coast road trip through the entire United States. (My previous US visits were mostly via air plane, with cars rented within one state sometimes.) And I think that might be fun for my chosen companions as well, plus we all speak English, so there should not be a communication problem.