2024-11-28 Story Dice: Travel Adventures!
We’ll be using story dice again, this time to write short stories about travel adventures.
Travel Adventure Plot Ideas
During Transit
- Falling asleep on the train and waking up in an unknown station.
- Taking the wrong bus and ending up in an interesting small town.
- Bad weather redirects your flight to a different airport.
- Following wrong GPS directions in your rental car leads to…
Meeting People
- Asking a local for directions leads to…
- Meeting an interesting local shop owner who…
- Accidentally joining the wrong tour group but…
- Seeing someone from behind and mistaking them for your friend but they turn out to be…
Food Adventures
- Ordering the wrong dish accidentally brings…
- Finding a hidden restaurant down a side street…
- Getting invited to a local family’s dinner…
- Trying to find a specific restaurant but instead…
Cultural Mix-ups
- Accidentally walking into a festival preparation…
- Misunderstanding a sign leads to…
- Going to the wrong temple/shrine but then…
- Getting caught in a traditional ceremony when…
Weather-related
- Rain forces you to take shelter in…
- Fog makes you miss your hiking trail but…
- Typhoon cancels your plans so instead…
- Snow traps you in a small village where…
A Little Boy’s Travel Adventure
Theme: During Transit
5 dice: 1. Ropeway, 2.Bud, Sprout, 3.Feather, 4.Hand, 5.Quote Bubble
A little boy (‘little boy’ = ‘sprout’) started for his first travel abroad to Switzerland by himself.
The original plan was to fly (‘fly’ = ‘feather’) from Japan to Switzerland, and then change to local transportation such as mountain trains.
But the airplane (‘airplane’ = ‘feather’) got delayed, and he could not catch the trains. He felt he was in trouble and asked someone nearby for help (‘ask for help’ = ‘hand’).
Then a kind person gave him a good advice (‘a kind person’s advice’ = ‘quote bubble’) to use other train lines and ropeway (‘ropeway’ = ‘ropeway’) to get to the top of the Matterhorn.
On the way to the top of the mountain, he could see beautiful scenery of mountains and glacier, and many kind of mountain plants sprout out (‘mountain plants sprout out’ = ‘sprout’).
At the top of mountain, he cried, ”I did it!” (”I did it!” = ‘quote bubble’)
He finally achieved his hope and felt satisfied and happy. Then, his first trip to abroad ended successfully.
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