Star Trek Travelers

World Hum has a list of the 10 greatest fictional travelers, and 5th on the list (I know, that's what I thought: FIFTH? Humph!) is the original series Enterprise crew.

What serious traveler doesn’t want to explore strange new worlds? To seek out new civilizations? To boldly go?

But I can't quite get past being 5th when #1 was Sal Paradise from Kerouac's “On the Road”.

In the comments are suggestions to include the kids from Ransome's wonderful Swallows and Amazons books, the time traveler from H.G. Wells' The Time Machine, Tolkien's Frodo, Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz, Ford Prefect from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Alice from Through the Looking Glass and the children from the Narnia books.

Travelers, indeed. And I think of a 2-week vacation as a long trip.