Is with hot air balloon the most /lit/ way to travel?

>>9225009
>Not using your naruto powers to teleport

Troika is.

Absolutely. Even derivatives of the "floating on hot air" method are considerably high-/lit/, like dirigibles, hovercraft, etc.

/lit/ does not travel. The most /lit/ thing to do is lock oneself into a room with a good collection.

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>>9225009
This is how /lit/ travels

This makes me want to read some Jules Verne. Which book of his should I read?

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>>9225027
entirely false

>>9225009
>>9225040

jim shepard's new collection has a story about the invention of hot air balloon travel (first manned flight). i would check it out

>>9225044
Never been on one of these, have you? I brought a book with me once. I read maybe ten pages on there flight, five on back flight, and then maybe three pages during three week vacation.

No, your imagination is. :)

>>9225027

I was about to say this almost word for word. Gon you.

>>9225009
let's not and say we did.

there is literary precedent for such a thing:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Balloon-Hoax

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>>9225042
Michel Strogoff and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea are my favorites.

and then you have Journey to the Center of the Earth, Around the World in Eighty Day, The Mysterious Island, Five Weeks in a Balloon. He have written a lot of enjoyable books.

Just look up which translations are good so you can avoid some of the earlier shitty English translations if you are going to read Verne in English.

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>>9225093
I have friends and relatives in cities along the Amtrack routes, so when i can line up my visit with a good round-trip deal I try to take the train.

Trains and train stations are excellent for reading in my opinion. I enjoy the experience.

>>9225229
I wish traveling with trains would be dirt cheap so I could ride around my country some summer.

>>9225040
That's literally the gayest shit I've ever seen. Stop

>>9225009
Reading in a hot air balloon is inane.

>>9225093
Try reading on a train that doesn't fly next time.

>>9225283
Go ride around a country that subsidizes them instead.