Map of WA

One really cool and unexpected "side effect" of reading Patricia Briggs' Mercy Thompson books is learning lots of new and interesting things. One of the things I'm learning about is Washington State.

I'm currently reading the sixth book in the series, River Marked, and wanted to get a better idea of the area Mercy and Adam went to. Now sure I could take the "short-cut" way of learning more and get my information from the Forum on the website, however doing a Google search tends to come up with lots of interesting info as well.

I knew the Twilight books by Stephenie Meyer were set somewhere in the US. I'd looked Forks up on a map once, just to get a general idea of what it looked like. What I didn't know was where it was in relation to other places. Such as Canada, state lines, and such. Reading Mercy Thompson meant doing more research into Washington State, and this book, being set mostly away from the Tri-Cities, meant checking out more maps. Also did some research on other random things like how Maryhill got its name and the Stonehenge replica that was built there by Sam Hill.

Source: Google Images

Found a map too, and one I like as it's easy to read yet detailed enough for me to get a general idea of locations. This particular map has the locations from both Twilight and the Mercy Thompson series on it, which is why I included it here.