Campfyre Stories

So I was fooling around on Wikipedia the other day.  I started at the Muppets and in my journey I wound up passing through (in no particular order) pseudoscience, drop bears, aurora borealis, Mithridatism, and quite a few other completely unrelated things.  What made this interesting to me was that all of this stemmed from my original read of the Muppets and that every strange topic that I found myself on had been a link from the previous page.

I had linked a friend to drop bears (because I am fascinated by cryptids) and while I continued on my own wiki journey, he wound up at Star Wars, so we had radically divergent paths.  I decided that this should be a game and he helped me to define the rules.

So let’s play a game.  This is how it goes:

Everyone starts at the same page and reads about it.  Whatever you’re most interested in linking to from there, you click.  When you have made 10 clicks, come back and comment to tell me where you wound up, how long it took and how many pit stops you made.

The Rules:
Each click only counts if you either again link or end on that page (so clicking a word to define it, then clicking back does not count).  Some clicks are considered "pit stops", where you open the link in a new tab or window because you want to read it later, but it’s not part of your overall trip.  You can have no more than 3 pit stops, but only the page you opened counts.  If you link from your pit stop, it counts as continuing your journey.  The back button should be used as sparingly as possible, but is allowed in cases where there are few internal links or when you hit a dead-end.  Using the back button carries no penalty and the dead-end page doesn’t count as a click.  Portals count as a click, but they cannot be a stopping point (either to end the game, or as a pit stop).

So, to ensure that we all start at the same point, I hit "random" until I got an article that was long enough and had enough diverse links to ensure a long and fruitful journey.  The starting point is Vulgar Latin.

And, of course, feel free to steal my game and post it on your own blog.  Choose your own starting point, though.  I imagine there are only so many places one can go from Vulgar Latin…