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This plotline is a key fixture of many works of [[Children's Literature]] and [[Coming of Age Stories]]. [[The Big Race]] is a frequent form of this, as is many a [[Vacation Episode|Vacation]] or [[Road Trip Episode]] ([[Road Movie|including the movies]]). Expect "[[Are We There Yet?]]" to be asked quite often.

[[Tropes Are Flexible]], and this one is more flexible than most. (It ''is'' one of The Seven Basic Plots, after all.) This can overlap with [[Orphean Rescue]], if the people doing the rescuing encounter beings or wonders (or both) during their rescue mission. [[Yet Another Christmas Carol]] tends to have the trip take place through time, rather than through space. And so on.

[[Tropes Are Flexible]], and this one is more flexible than most. (It ''is'' one of The Seven Basic Plots, after all.) This can overlap with [[Orphean Rescue]], if the people doing the rescuing encounter beings or wonders (or both) during their rescue mission. [[Yet Another Christmas Carol]] tends to have the trip take place through time, rather than through space. [[Fantastic Voyage Plot]] and [[Journey to the Center of the Mind]] send the travelers into somebody else (one way or another), fully expecting to make their way out at the end of their trip. And so on.

If you go "there" but can't get "back", then you're [[Trapped in Another World]].