Forks

On October 12th we drove into Forks, the center of Mormon vampirism in North America. In preparation, Vicki had re-read one or more of the Twilight novels and re-viewed one or more of the movies. Despite this, and despite the fact that we are among the very few to now have visited both Forks and Volterra (the European vampire headquarters (in Italy, not Transylvania, BTW)) (see http://roadeveron.blogspot.com/2011/06/volterra-1.html; and http://roadeveron.blogspot.com/2011/06/volterra-crossbow-tournament.html; and http://roadeveron.blogspot.com/2011/06/volterra-2.html), nothing could have prepared us for what followed.

There is ample Twilight stuff all around, gift shoppes, etc.

Thus

And thus

The police station

The high school

Alas, we learned, at length, that although the initial novel is set in Forks, which
has benefited greatly from the touristic attention, not a frame of the movie was
shot here; indeed the movie antedates both the police station and high school in
any case; I am afraid our reputation at set-jetters will now take a hit...