I’m following Rob’s lead:

On our way to the hotel, I looked out the taxi window as wonderingly as though we had just landed on another planet.

It’s from Give Me the World by Leila Hadley, a delightful book about a trip across Asia and Europe by Hadley and her six-year-old son Kippy in 1951.

To play along yourself:

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.