So he hops between Björk and his sister, Michael Caine and Freddie Mercury.
Stelios's big orange boat, easyCruiseOne hops between 11 islands, including Mykonos, Ios, Serifos and Paros.
It hops between plot strands like a flea on a dog.
And instead of being set on Earth, it hops between a host of far-flung worlds.
Of Russian descent, Shteyngart hops between the deep soulfulness of Russian literature and the skittish parlance of online communication.
Gallagher hops between that more hopeful time and the present, when her parents ultimately reappear as "cremains".
Jarvis Cocker, who hops between 6 Music and Radio 4 with ease and charm, brought us one of his loves this week.
Rabies hops between nerve cells as it races to the brain, which is why even an infected bite on the ankle will eventually drive someone mad.
His eight-piece band contains a string quartet, assorted keyboards, mixed percussion and some guitars, and if all that isn't enough, Tiersen hops between instruments as if somebody has hung a sign saying Musical Prodigy round his neck.
What's more, even as the story hops between Alaska, San Francisco, Sydney, Vladivostok, and the Far East, you begin to realize that it could be happening anywhere, or nowhere.
There were four main reasons, each of which got about one-quarter of the vote: claustrophobia, the high price of air travel, a desire to experience long-distance train travel, and short hops between nearby cities without direct air routes.
