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Fans Trek from Nashville to Vancouver for a Glimpse at New Moon

by Will on April 17, 2009 · Comments

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200904170928.jpgHow far would you go to get a chance at a glimpse of New Moon? For 26-year-old LeAnne Autry of Nashville, TN, the answer is simple: 2,582 miles. After her loving husband won a free pair of plane tickets, he suggested that she and her sister head to Vancouver to feed her second love–Twilight.

LeAnne Autry and her sister Sara Bennett will land in Vancouver Friday and begin stalking the lanes of Yaletown is search of their favourite movie star, Robert Pattinson known to fans as RPattz, who plays the romantic lead Edward Cullen in the Twilight movies.

Devoted fans, even the kind that travel at great expense for a chance to see an actor, should not be confused with the dangerous, pathological stalkers who try to involve themselves in the lives of famous people, Baxter cautioned.
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Fans know better, they just want to be part of something fun and exciting. And if it’s a little bit sexy – and here I am thinking of Rob Pattinson – that’s so much the better.

Check out the rest of the story over at the Vancouver Sun.

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  • jayne
    PSYCHO ALERT!! Run, Patty, run!!!
  • laura carroll
    what a nice husband she has........mine on the other hand thinks I need professional help w/ my obsession w/ it-haha! I tried to explain to mine there is just so much that resonates in the books/films w/ all different age brackets...so many underlying themes no wonder everyone loves it. First loves, eternal love, the struggle w/ good and evil, struggles w/ selfishness/selflessness. I know the actors think we are wack jobs that we are so nutty about the saga but they should be happy that they have touched us such a profound way!! Isn't that what movies are supposed to do..otherwise what's the point???
  • OCDJenni
    Amen girl! And my hubby is pretty sure that I need a padded room with this obsession. Hey...some women shop but I Twilight :) Whatever it takes right? lol
  • Chris10
    I think that's exciting and I'm envious. Not only is she getting possibly see the cast but she gets to see abeautiful part of North America. Lucky fans!! I think any travel is exciting especially if you get to see things / places you've never seen!

    I flew from New Orleans to Seattle and then drove 3 hours to La Push just so I could stand on the beach, with no plans of seeing anyone famous. My motivation may have been Twilight but it was worth the whole trip just to get see that part of the U.S. I'd do it again in a heart beat and the return trip might actually be in the next couple of years!
  • WetDishRag (AKA deedee81)
    Hold onto that thought, there might be something big being planned for next year, don't want to say too much now, but you might get to visit somewhere different in the US and I will be there as well!

    I highly recommend you get the Morganville series, it's brilliant, I read the first chapter the other night and only went back to it yesterday, well at just after 4am this morning I finished it, hooked! Now I'm half way through book two! I'm going to have to invest in another book case at this rate because the other Blue Blood books arrived today as well. I'm coming down with books LOL
  • Chris10
    Ohhhh I'm intrigued!! My frined and I have been talking about our next adventure since before we left Seattle. She had a wedding and honeymoon to get done with and so now we're in talks again!!

    I'm definitely going to look into them now! After I get the 9th Sookie book in a few weeks I will have to wait until October for the 10th so that's a good in between thing. I had to force myself to stop reading last night so I could finally get some friggin sleep.

    Thanks for the tip. I too will need another book case soon. Actually I want to get that Kindle thing on Amazon and read everything digital. It's so pricey though. Something to think about I guess!
  • i love rob
    Hey Birthday Girl!!!!

    I sent you an email.....
  • WetDishRag (AKA deedee81)
    Thank you so much! You know the saying..."your only as old as the man you are feeling" LMAO

    My parents bought me a big chocolate cake, I'm going to imagine that I'm eating off of my Felix's Pecks! Oh dear how good would that be LMAO
  • i love rob
    Ohhhh....I like that saying!!!! I need to feel Rob then, cause I think I'm 22 (almost 23)!!!! LMAO!!!

    Good way to eat your cake!!! Hey, make sure he eats some off of you too!!! You know where you need to put it!!!! *wink, wink*
  • nicnixs *need to go again* :)
    THAT's SHOCKING ;) LMAO
  • i love rob
    Hee! Hee!

    ROFLMAO!!!
  • twifan89
    hahahaha, when i read "THAT'S SHOCKING" i read it as though it was will ferrel saying it LOL. just sounds like something he would say.
  • twilightus
    I too am envious! I have friends who are trying to talk me into a trip to Italy next month, but I don't think I can swing 2 trips in 1 year like that. We already have our trip planned to Forks and La Push for the festival that is held over the weekend of Bella's birthday! We are going to have so much fun!!! Just to be able to see that part of the country -- I've never been to Washington and to take in just the essence!
  • Chris10
    I had never been either and I enjoyed it very much. Make sure you stop by the Forks Chamber of Commerce and Visitor's Center. All the ladies in there are so nice and they'll give you a little Twilight map and some trivia pages from all the books. Some of the questions are kind of tough - I thought I was a Twilight expert but they stumped me!
  • i love rob
    Oops! Meant to send that to Deedee!

    Sorry!
  • joanna86 aka Charlie's Angel
    "After her loving husband won a free pair of plane tickets, he suggested that she and her sister head to Vancouver to feed her second love–Twilight."

    WHERE DO I HAVE TO GO TO MEET THIS KIND OF MAN? :D
  • twilightus
    I am married to one of those men!!!!!! My husband found the information for us to go to the Stephenie Meyer Festival they hold in Forks over the weekend of Bella's birthday! He found us the lodge that my girlfriends and I are staying in, and bought my plane ticket without hesitation! He even smiled when I came home last night with my new Alice Cullen hair cut! He loves it!!!!!!
  • joanna86 aka Charlie's Angel
    you have no idea how much I envy you! :)
    fortunately I'm still in my early twenties - lots of time to search the world ;)
  • nicnixs *need to go again* :)
    LOL

    i have the perfect husband too :) he reads twilight (nearly as much as me)

    Might trade him in to be back in my early twenties though lol
  • joanna86 aka Charlie's Angel
    LOL!
    I just found a perfect resolution: I'll marry someone from the cast :D

    being in early twenties is cool... being born in the same year as Rob is even better :D
  • nicnixs *need to go again* :)
    LOL :)

    I'll not lose hope tho :) My husband is way way younger than me so i know sometimes the older woman thing can work out LMAO
  • joanna86 aka Charlie's Angel
    ROTFL! it seems you've been subconsciously preparing yourself for meeting Rob & the rest of the guys :D
    I'm impressed! :D
  • i love rob
    That is awesome!!!! My hubby is very understanding of my Twilight/Rob obsession, but I don't think it would ever occur to him to send me on a Twilight related trip!!!!

    Maybe I'll have to hint!!!
  • Kimberlina Dirty Pirate Hooker
    I was thinking the same thing!! If my husband won plane tickets he'd do everything in his power to keep me away from Twilight! he thinks I'm crazy!
  • Mika
    That isn't devotion. It's STALKING.
    If they truly were devoted fans, they would think twice about what they're doing and realize that Rob is a normal person who needs some privacy in his busy life.
  • lovevampolves
    true "leave Rob alone!"
  • twifan89
    i would never seek the actors out, like going to the jackson's band's concert to see them. i would much rather randomly meet them (2% chance of that ever happening LOL). i feel like a lot of the time these actors can't even do 95% of the things we do normally because someone always wants a pic, autograph, or a hug...it's different if they are doing a promotional thing but if they just want to chill i think they should be left to hang out and do what they want.
  • kcullen
    I totally agree, that is stalking!!!
    I follow all websites and pictures, I check them hundreds of times a day!!
    I know I am obsessed, but I truly love everything Twilight!!!! But I would never travel to Canada to stalk them!
  • B_Ryson
    i agree...

    it's good to be a fan, but never a stalker.
  • mrsbolin2009
    I do truly like Rob Pattinson, and would LOVE to meet him one day, but deciding to go to Vancouver instead of her anniversary with her husband is a bit borderline for me. Rob and all celebrities definitely do need their privacy because they ARE normal people underneath just like the rest of us.
    If she does get to meet Rob and the others, hopefully it will be out of her system. It's like when my husband buys a new xbox game. He plays that think non-stop for like two weeks, then he gets it out of his system. Same thing will happen with these celebrities over time.
    I honestly can't say I blame her for wanting to go, but I wouldn't travel all that way either.
  • tweter76 . . . vamplover
    I agree. I would rather go to Forks/La Push if I were going to take a trip that big. I think the area is beautiful and the tribes intrigue me. Sure, I'd love to see anyone of these actors but I'm more curious to see for myself how this area inspired a whole Saga for Stephenie.
  • mrsbolin2009
    Definitely. Glad we are on the same page. Obsessing over seeing a celebrity is so exhausting. More times than most, people end up see someone famous when they aren't looking for them. Like when I met Paris Hilton and Nichole Richie when they were in Arkansas for the first Simple Life...I was working at the wal-mart in the town they were staying near, and ran into them (it was interesting, but not my most exciting celebrity encounter).
    So if people are in the area where New Moon is filming, they shouldn't concern themselves with ONLY trying to see a celebrity, they should enjoy other things too. Good things come to those who wait :)
  • tweter76 . . . vamplover
    I agree!



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  • twifan89
    i think making a trip to La Push and Forks would be cool so we could get our heads better inside the book!!! making a cross country trip there is a vacation..while trekking to Canada for most of these people is purely to see the cast and can be stalker-esque(made up word lol)
  • nicnixs *need to go again* :)
    That's a great word tho lol

    I looked at forks on google maps the other day lol

    It looks amazing :) shame i live about a billion miles away :)
  • twifan89
    that is a shame! i really love how stephenie researched when she made her book! i thought it was incredibly cool that Forks, LaPush, and the Quiluette tribe really exist! it makes everything come to life more!
  • tweter76 . . . vamplover
    A bunch of the girls who work for me and I want to go out there. I've never been west of Kansas (although I have been all over the east coast and south) and would love to see that part of the country! Maybe next summer or fall when Eclipse is slated to come out!
  • tweter76 . . . vamplover
    By the way...I love "stalker-esque!!!"
  • twifan89
    haha thanks =) i have been to oregon and you should go there as well if you go to washington! the coast is beautiful!
  • nicnixs *need to go again* :)
    Right lol Who can i come visit in the states so i can go on a trip to la push lol

    :)
  • tweter76 . . . vamplover
    It's certainly in the future...just gonna take some planning!
  • CindysGotOCD
    I would to be on a plane there.... My husband played the Mega Millions today and I said if you win all I want is a trip to Vancouver and a trip to Italy...lol.. he thinks Im crazy too .. I mean I wear my I Dreamed of Edward Cullen t-shirt to bed every night
  • OCDJenni
    LOL!!
  • Lizzieeee
    Woah!
    That's devotion..
    I want to go to Vancouver but I live in England.
    :(
  • I would love to take a trip to Vancouver! Would be AWESOME to have a chance to see someone from the twilight cast.
  • Juju
    What a great husband. My husband would do something like this. Congrats LeAnne! Good luck!
  • elcie
    dedication.
  • Marystat
    Firstly this lady had a hubby who won FREE airfare tickets, he was sweet enough to give it to her and a friend. I don't think she would have done this if it wasn't that the flight was free. Also I am sure they took the trek not expecting much but HOPING. I think we should lay off calling ppl stalkers just cos they go to Vancouver HOPING. I know what a stalker is like, I have had it happen to my own family. If she would start following Rob to his hotel ROOM door and knocking on it. Interrupt him wherever he was, calling the hotel with freaky messages etc yes that IS stalking.

    Hopefully she and her friend will meet the cast somewhere neutral and that they do not bug them while they eat or just hang out wanting to be left alone.

    Also yes if I had the money I'd go to Vancouver now too, I got several reasons for it though but hey yes I certainly won't hide the fact I'd run into some of the cast there. It would be fun but I'd never interrupt them. Also I would probably be too busy sightseeing with my Bon Jovi buddy who lives there lol. We got our own kinda Jovi history sightseeing to do in Vancouver (old story lol).
  • B_Ryson
    well...their only objective is to meet Rob. meaning that they'd have to track down where he is. meaning they'd have to ask around for any sightings, do some heavy research, drive around town. MEANING -- they're stalkers.

    sure you can say it's "hoping," but they have one reason for going there: to see Rob.
  • twilover
    We should all be so lucky as to have a husband like that who is so selfless!! Have fun LeAnne and Sara and Good Luck!!!
  • i love rob
    What a great husband!!!! Hats off to him!!!!
  • Ryzee
    ridiculous.
  • thats a really cooolio husband ....and good luck to LeAnne Autry
  • Warrenff5 TwiGuy
    I don't think thats psychotic at all! That just shows how much more of a twi-fan she is!
    Nothing wrong with that!
    If I had the money I would be on a plane in an instant! And I'm pretty sure I'm not psychotic-I think.....
  • TwilightMom801
    So.....myself (being a Twilight Mom) and my sister (also a Twilight Mom) are psycho's because we're planning a trip to Italy next month? Hmm, never really thought of myself as that. We are using this excuse to take a trip of a lifetime....and not because it would be exciting to be a part of the magic that this movie would bring...but because we've never been abroad so why not stop wasting time in life and do it. Life is too short to sit by...at least it is for us...Psycho Twilight Moms!!
  • volterali
    I'm in Vancouver right now for work (up here from Seattle) and I have yet to see anyone.
    I'm staying in Yaletown, and went out last night- and still nothing!! I don't care where Rob was on Monday, but I would love to know where he is today! Rest of the cast too! It will be so disappointing if I leave, and wasn't able to see anyone.

    Not so much interested in screaming for photos/autographs, but it would be nice to just see cast roaming around! Jeeze, is that too much to ask!

    If you have a scoop ,and don't wish to write it all over the internet, please email!
    alison.doyle@me.com
  • OCDJenni
    Good for them! If could do it, I surely would. I wouldn't even care if I encountered any of the actors. I'd just want to see them actually filming...ya know the behind the scenes kinda thing. That experience would definitely become a part of one's soul. Of course, meeting an actor would just be the cherry on top :D
  • SHE AND MAGGIE ARE SO LUCKY TO BE ABLE TO GO TO VANCUEVER AND BE PART OF THE LIVE NEW MOON EXCITEMENT
  • TwilightFan
    omg! can i join!!!
    XD
  • TheLionFellIn<3W/Ceci-ROBECI
    Wow I'm just impressed how the husband was willing and happy to give her the tickets to go... OMG you lucky woman!! I hope they don't go just to stalk them, but to enjoy themselves and if they're lucky enough, they'll hopefully meet them =]
    Have fun!!!
  • EYE ROLL
    I hope you B!tches are as mean to these peeps are you were to maggie.....you are all hypocrits....you'd do the exact same thing

    BTW look up the legal definition of stalking while your at it....you might learn a few things..
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