And I ask myself: how did I get here?

Q: Do you or your favourite authors use setting as character?
A: I never know what it means when people say "setting as character".  But I can say that my favourite authors use setting brilliantly and make fictional places real.
I've never been to Minnesota but when I get there I'll happily leave the Twin Cities behind to visit Lake Wobegon. I must have read a hundred of Garrison Keillor's stories before I realised that might be a problem. 
And when we got lost in Maine a few years bac...