September 29, 2006
Keeping a travel scrapbook
I couldn't find many interesting travel experiences for you, but I did find this article about someone who bought an old photo album with lots of hotel stationary in it. The author then decided to collect stationary from hotels and add it to the album.
When I was a kid, I used to collect stuff from vacation: tickets to Disney, postcards from museum gift shops, and whatever else. I've thrown it all away, but part of me wonders if looking back at whatever scraps we have leftover from old vacations isn't worth the trouble of maintaining a scrapbook.
I'd like to hear from anyone who does keep more than photographs of their vacation experiences. What do you do to make sure you have a physical reminder of your travels?
Posted by James Trotta at September 29, 2006 2:59 AM | TrackBack
Yes! Nothing brings back the memories of that crowded bus ride in St. Petersburg, Russia, like the ticket that resides in my photo album!
Posted by: Mary at September 29, 2006 7:25 AMI have kept everything from tickets for a train from Paris to Venice, to sand from Omaha beach. I love to keep some kind of tangeble momento. Pictures are one thing, but to hand someone a bottle of sand and say,"I grabbed a hand full of this when I took a tour of the D-Day beaches", just gives me much more joy. I love to share where I have been with people through pictures, videos and items that they can touch. Plus, for me, there is a great feeling of how far I really traveled. I even make sure to keep a small amount of currency from each place I visit. Then I make a book for each place. It is like a trip through my vacation. Not just a sight seeing tour for your eyes!
Posted by: Eric at September 29, 2006 11:20 AMI do keep some ticket stubs and remembrances, and they are roughly sorted by dates in boxes, but I'm a long way from compiling albums. That doesn't mean that I'll never get to it, though! :)
I keep everything from my travels. Anything with the hotel logo to airline tickets. I use of this for my scrapbooking. Wish I would have kept all that stuff I collected as a kid (kept in shoe boxes). It is a nice way to show friends pictures of your trips!
I try to buy a special glass on every vacation, to use that week and then remind me every time I use it
Posted by: cp at September 30, 2006 1:44 AMI am still floating from my vacation in Jamaica that I took this month. In my photo album I also included a Jamaican $100 dollar bill and some coins. I purchased some blue mountain coffee and I put the sack cloth that it came in into my photo album. I also included all of my receipts to show the differences in our currency and theirs. By doing this anyone that looks at the album will get a very good picture of my experience in Jamaica.
Yeah Mon!!!!
Posted by: Danielle at September 30, 2006 2:25 AMI keep a lot of stuff from travels...I keep ticket stubs from every museum and monument I visit.
I also collect train tickets and receipts, business cards, and coins...I was hoping to create a scrapbook with all of this...but I have not done so yet.
I collect match books from past and present vacations, but lately match books have become dull and un-colorful.........
Posted by: andrew beeker at September 30, 2006 3:52 AMThank you for all the comments. I guess I should start doing a better job archiving my vacation memories.
Posted by: James Trotta at September 30, 2006 4:10 AMsomething my husdand and i do is get a map from everyplace we go weather it be north south east west, we put in a frame and hang in the kitchen! it is a way of always remembering all the good times.
Posted by: kristin holbrook at September 30, 2006 7:28 AMhey
its janelle
i lovx3 takeing pic.... i take them all the time when i go away for sonthing like that ...... i srapbook a lot of thing it is so much fun ...
janelle
Posted by: janelle at September 30, 2006 8:48 AMI always buy an inexpensive pair of earrings from each place I travel. Then when I wear them I remember our visit and it brings back all the wonderful memories.
Posted by: Maxine at September 30, 2006 10:26 AMI also like to buy earrings from places I visit, although I've lost some of those (sob!). Among my favorite travel mementos: the Scottish wool shawl I bought the day I visited Edinburgh castle and was chilly. It's practical and beautiful and always reminds me of that trip. I also like inexpensive artwork: a print from Montmartre, one from the walled town of Eze in southern France, a watercolor from St. Thomas. And one more prized possession: a little Delft bud vase I bought when I was sixteen and we stopped in the Amsterdam airport on my way to France with a school group.
Posted by: Elizabeth at September 30, 2006 12:41 PMMy husband and I like to get x1 picture/print from places we visit esp if it has been a happy trip. We frame and hang it in the house somewhere it always brings back good memories. Also we recently found coins brought back which are now obsolete as most of Europe now uses the Euro. It was happy sorting...
Posted by: Lynette at September 30, 2006 11:14 PMI like to collect dirt! A small plastic zip lock bag of dirt. You can use the soils to plant flower seeds in, label the outside of the bag and keep some handy for conversation.
Posted by: Kathy at October 4, 2006 10:37 AMI don't think that trinkets are useful to remembering. However, I love to make trip journals.
I write down everything that happens on the trip. Each small detail each night before I fall asleep on my travels.
When I re-read it months later, I'm travelling again!!
Posted by: HB at October 5, 2006 3:20 AM