CCCC66: Siblings going offroad to uhoria: 06/14/19

The next way to uhoria for the sibling traveler is via an offroad route. For this stop on the road narrative spectrum I have one exemplar: Mabel Jones and the Forbidden City by Will Mabbitt (2016).

Mabel is an interesting example of a sibling traveler in that she is separated from her baby sister for most of the book, but both travel to the same places via very similar routes. I count Mabel's journey as a sibling one for this book because she is thinking of herself as a big sister and is worried about her baby sister for the majority of the journey.

The sisters' destination is New York in the far future. As it is a time travel adventure and the fate of humanity has been lost to the ages between our present and the present of the animal pirates. As there is no history to connect the two, the city, even though it is named, is a uhoric destination. It is a city out of time.

The journey both girls take is an offroad one. It is one over water, through the air, and through the jungles. The land has reclaimed the human cities. There are new routes but they aren't roads or highways.

Other examples could be siblings arriving from another time to a secluded path. Children could run away from home and end up in another time. The key feature of this spot on the spectrum are siblings, a journey through time (or some other interaction with time out of sorts), and a path that is offroad (by air, through a forest, etc).

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