Do you collect stuff from your travels? I used to buy a lot of small trinkets and stuff like that until I realized that it makes my backpack heavier and after travelling for six months (continuously) I realized that it eats up my money and weigh me down as well.
Here’s a list of what I came up collecting instead:
1.Passport Stamps and Visa Stickers: I love seeing my passport full of stamps. Whenever someone asks me about my travel collection I always say my passport stamps and visa stickers from different countries is what I collect.
2. Friends: I don’t collect people hehehe... what I do is I interact with as much people as I can and try to enjoy the moment of travelling with them. The people that I met on the road made my trip very memorable and fun. I also keep in touch with some of them thru email. I have some travellers that I met four years ago that I still keep in touch with.
3. Flag Patches: This won’t cost you a lot, maybe it won’t cost you more than a dollar for a single patch. I buy them then sew them over my backpack. And whenever I see my backpack, the flags remind me of the adventures that I’ve had.
My apologies for the inverted Cambodian flag
What do you collect from your travels?
What do you collect from your travels?
I really like the list you have here. All 3 of those things are awesome things too collect. I think Im gonna go with the 1st 2 plus magnets. I wanna find unique magnets made in each city i visit and collect those. I have a cousin who has travelled extensively and she has a metal wall in her kitchen filled with magnets. It really looks so cool with magnets from all over. Yeah it will be alot of $$$ in the end but it will be worth it to have them all to look back.
ReplyDelete@jaime: magnets would be cool. let me know once you visit the philippines, there's a lot of magnets souvenirs from here :-)
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