Vacation, librarian-style.

Step 1: Plan a literary heritage site as your destination. Pore over the copy of Fodor's Guide to Atlantic Canada you checked out of the library. Make a mental note of the cities en route with independent bookstores.

Step 2: Marvel over how Canadian currency has spots you can see right through.

Step 3: Visit local libraries and steal ideas from their children's departments. Support a library book sale by buying a title with a maple leaf sticker on the spine.

Step 4: Find a copy of Hark! A Vagrant in the lobby of your inn and alternate between reading that and the library book you brought from home.

Step 5: Visit a gift shop and browse the spinning book racks filled with different works by Lucy Maud Montgomery. Get seduced by new covers of books you already own. Buy postcards of vintage book covers. Answer questions from tourists about the Anne of Green Gables series. (Why, 1908, sir!)

Step 7: Try to convert both the exchange rate and gallons to liters when pre-paying for gas and decide it is Too! Much! Math! Grasp for your high school French when your credit card doesn't work in Quebec. Vow to brush up when you get home.

Step 8: Try not to laugh when the border guard asks you if you have any eggs coming back into the United States. It's not actually a funny question, you're just tired.