The planet Hoth was said to have gotten as cold as -375 degrees at night. That's colder than the planet Uranus and almost as cold as Pluto.
I don't know about you, but that is NOT my ideal place for a vacation, let alone visit. Yet in my imagination as a kid (and even today at times) I've been there in my mind.
When you're little you like to imagine things. We pretend we're different people, in different places, taking the real world and adding a creative spin to it that only children can do so well.
Growing up, a walk in the woods typically ended up with me taking on Imperial troopers as an Ewok, or riding a stick, pretending it was a speeder bike. Every once in a while did I pretend to be on Tattooine while walking to and from the beach. The exhaustive journey back and forth as the sun beat down upon you wasn't hard to imagine you being lost in the dessert, trying to find you're way home before sand people captured you.
But there was one other place I went to (in my mind) as a kid and it was only during the winter...Hoth.
The frozen planet introduced to us in Empire Strikes Back showed nothing but heaps of snow that chilled everyone in the theaters to the bone. It rarely snows here in the south but when it's bone cold I STILL sometimes imagine me living on Hoth.
As a kid, when playing outside during Christmas break, this was a likely scenario my friends and I played out.
As an adult, whenever I stubbornly force myself on long walks for exercise, I slip into imagining I'm on that frozen planet once again. I can't help it.
I know I have little to complain about living down south. People north of me or in other countries see MUCH colder weather than me, but it doesn't mean I can't dream too.
So my question today is this: Did you (and do you still) imagine yourself on these planets during specific seasons, or areas you visit? And if so, have you ever imagined how warm it was inside a tauntaun?
Because EVERY time I went camping with my friends over the holiday in the woods I ALWAYS thought about that!!! And if I'd have seen a gutted one near me, I would've climbed on in.
I don't care how bad they smell!
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