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Anyone can boast cool travels and show off pictures on Flickr and Facebook.  It’s the two weeks before  you go, when you are hyping up your next big trip, when family and friends start to come out of the woodwork and hint for gifts and trinkets from a foriegn destination.  So, this got me thinking - does everyone seek out the same type of momento when asking others to pick them up something?

This summer, more than ever before, people are taking advantage of the summer travel trend - deals.  The media can’t get enough about writing how Americans are “drunk on deals” but once we’re there - wherever there might be - we’ve got to buy something to show we’ve been.  A right of travel passage, if you will. 

For me, it’s jewelry, snapping great pictures of water or unique door fronts and finding unique travel posters.  I’m a sucker for outdated travel posters - detailed drawings, one line tags with a dollop of copy and scenic depictions that make you want to visit again and again.  Old school advertising at it’s best - aspirational and attainable.  My living room and kitchen both attest for my vintage travel poster obsession and it’s now become something I am seeking out for myself…before I check off the laundry list of family and friends trinkets and travel treasures. 

Do you have certain travel trinkets you seek out when on the road?  My sisters look for shot glasses, I have a girlfriend who loves shoes from different areas codes and my mom might have a t-shirt for every American city she has ever visited (not too proud of that accomplishment).

Once it’s all bagged up and I’m ready to head home, it’s just a matter of praying my luggage isn’t too hefty - and based on Ian’s post, that they get home to adorn the walls at all!