Showing posts with label map. Show all posts
Showing posts with label map. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Ask Dallas: Vampire Kingdom of Louisiana : how are the sheriff areas divided up?

Yet another great question from a reader....
There is actually a wonderful scene in Bk 8 where Sookie on the floor in her pajamas gets out her old Louisiana state map and a pencil (so she can later erase the lines ) and draws out what she thinks are the vampire sheriff area boundaries ...

This is the scene :

In honor of the chilly night I pulled on my fleecy pajama bottoms, white with pink sheep, and a white Tshirt. I unearthed my map of Louisiana and found a pencil. I sketched in the areas I knew. I was piecing my knowledge together from bits of conversations that had taken place in my presence. Eric had Area Five. The queen had had Area One, which was New Orleans and vicinity. That mad e sense. But in between, there was a jumble. The finally deceased Gervaise had had the area including Baton Rouge, and that was where the queen had been living since Katrina damaged her New Orleans properties so heavily. So that should have been Area Two, due to its prominence. But it was called Area Four. Very lightly, I traced a line that I could erase, and would, after I'd looked at it for a bit.


This is my idea of how it might look

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Google maps of the Sookieverse

Bon Temps is a couple of miles south of I 20, which runs all the way across Louisiana. It lies between Ruston and Shreveport. But the distance can sometimes expand or contract, depending on this writer's needs.

Charlaine Harris

Bon Temps is according to Sookie about an hour away from Shreveport.

Bon Temps must be closer to Monroe than Shreveport as Denise Rattray told Hoyt that she would not sell him any weed unless he took Mack Rattray to the hospital in Monroe. We know Hoyt did because Sheriff Dearborne's niece is the emergency room nurse at the hospital in Monroe and she told Bud Dearborne that she saw them there. If Bon Temps was closer to Shreveport, it makes sense to go to the hospital there.

Rev Newlin was killed on the freeway. He must have been closer to Dallas/Fort Worth than Shreveport but he wasn't necessarily in Dallas/Fort Worth.

It's about a 3 to 3 1/2 hour drive from Dallas/Fort Worth to Shreveport.
It's about another hour from Shreveport to Monroe.

In 1.03 Mine, the vampire Malcolm (at Bill's house) says they have a long ride back to Monroe. I guess "long ride" depends on the circumstances.


Place on map above

Monroe, LA

Shreveport, LA

Bunkie, LA
Patty's Pie House is "off I-49 way south near Bunkie"

Dallas, TX

Baylor University Medical Center
3500 Gaston Ave Dallas, TX 75246 more info > 3500 Gaston Ave Dallas, TX 75246