the search for foreign lands
Located in Lima, this country’s biblioteca nacional is a great place to peruse some literature.
Peru.
His first kiss with future ex Kim Kardashian was in a 2021 SNL sketch and he was dressed in Aladdin.
Pete Davidson.
The survivors of oceanic flight 815 band together to battle mysterious forces on a tropical island.
Lost the movie
One of history’s first travel writers, the 4th Century pilgrim Egeria explored the holy land using this book as a guide.
The Bible.
It’s the only form of liquid precipitation other than rain; fa shizzle.
A drizzle.
Located in Nairobi, after gaining its independence in 1963, Jomo Kenyatta became this African county’s first prime minister.
Kenya.
This Cincinnati baseball great once said he’d “walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play”; now he’s banned for life.
Pete Rose.
To save himself and his family, Marty Byrde must launder money for a ruthless cartel kingpin.
Ozark
One of many times she saved their butts, Sacagawea rescued valuable supplies for this duo after they fell into a river.
Lewis and Clark.
Reduce your speed when it’s raining to avoid this dangerous driving condition, which occurs when tires lose contact with the road.
Hydroplaning.
A popular spot for scuba diving, the bay of pigs is located on this island nation’s southern coast.
Cuba.
Depending on whom you ask, he is either a guitarist for The Who or the writer of the CSI theme songs.
Pete Townsend.
An MI6 agent and a wily assassin known as “villanelle” have it bad for each other.
Killing Eve
Intrepid writer Eliza Scidmore lobbied for years to bring these Japanese trees to Washington (DC).
Cherry trees.
As YouTube’s “Hungrybear9562” can attest, sunlight refracting twice inside raindrops before dispersing may result in this.
Double rainbow.
Pune, one of this country’s 10 most populous cities, is a sister city of Columbus, Indiana.
India.
Back in south Bend, this former presidential hopeful went by Mayor Pete; now he goes by secretary of transportation.
Pete Buttigieg.
Daily Double: Tommy Shelby and his sharp-hatted gang carve out a crime empire in post-WWi England.
Peaky Blinders.
Annie Londonderry inspired the 2021 novel “Spin” about her historic 19th century trip around the world on one of these.
Bicycle.
Scientists use the term “petrichor” to refer to this pleasing property of rain; you can thank the bacteria in wet soil.
Smell.
Synonymous with “a faraway place” the much maligned city of Timbuktu is located in this west African nation.
Mali.
He’s the wholesome comic known as HBO series “Crashing” and the podcast “You Made It Weird”.
Pete Holmes.
A young doctor gets acquainted with the quirky locals when he opens a practice in Cicely, Alaska.
Northern Exposure.
Pioneering journalist Martha Gellhorn made a brief home in Cuba during the ‘40s as the third wife of this author.
Hemingway.
Sometimes called “Phantom Rain”, Virga are wisps of precipitation that never make it to the ground; they do this instead.
Evaporating.