One thing that I've always very much enjoyed about this ship is how reading fic often feels like a globetrotting adventure. And it's awesome. In my own stuff I think I've exhausted just about every place I've ever been personally (not being a big traveler), but sometimes it's also fun to pick a spot on the globe, do a little research and take another trip in one's head. It's a bit like being a strange kind of travel agent; like planning for a vacation that you're not actually going to take (except that research is important, damnit, and just look at all those pretty, pretty pictures... **stares**)

I'm trying to think of locations that have stuck with me in fic. I think I'm more drawn to the mirco concept of place-- a safehouse in wherever, a quirky apartment, a tropical hideaway, a cabin off the grid (ha! couldn't resist :). It's about those small moments away from the geography per se, away from the missions and the gunfire and the destabilized regimes where we get a glimpse of who these guys are. And don't get me wrong, I love all that other stuff, and I love the quiet moments even more when they're set in such a context.

So I say all that to say.... I need to ponder recs some more.

Also? Coffee. Coffee is good. :)