So a topic discussing Travel Apps that document your trip got me thinking. How many of you have things around your house that remind you of your past trips?
I am not necessarily talking about souvenirs as such, or at least only about souvenirs. But any reminders what so ever?
I don’t tend to collect “traditional” souvenirs much. I do buy books as I like to read and have a large library but other than that and the occasional hat or T-shirt or something I don’t actually have any real souvenirs I bought on my trips.
I have created books of my more recent major trips, and I have a couple collages made up of ticket stubs and brochures and maps. These hang on the wall in my library. I have digital albums from my trips (usually a “best of” and another with all the photos from that trip) That I can play on any screen I have. They sometimes get played on the TV in my office as a screen saver. (Something I am trying to do more often)
I find these kind of things spark my memory of a trip so that I get a little “flash” back to the trip and a moment of enjoyment remembering that trip. Vs other trips that I have nothing out to remind me of them and thus I seldom think about them.
For example most of my US trips I have nothing but old photos in a box or digital photos stored either on disk or in my IPads memory somewhere. Or worse yet my first trip to Europe in 1977 as a kid I have nothing from, no photos, no souvenirs, nothing as it was all lost in a house fire. So I seldom think of that trip except the parts that overlapped my last trip. When I revisited a few location.
After the trip I took my father on in 17 we started buying the little Lego Architecture sets and city skyline sets of places we visited. And I have a few of those on display around the house that also bring back memories.
Note it is not that my memory is bad and I don’t remember these trips it is simply that I don’t think about them. And even the digital albums hardly ever get played.
I find the physical objects such as the Books or the collages are more readily see as I walk around the house and thus they do a better job of triggering memories then things that are put away ir only exist in some computers storage device and that you only see if you actively go looking for them.
So how many of you have things around your home that trigger memories of past trips?
Is it just me?
Maybe I am just feeling sentimental today…. As it was two years ago today (as I type this) that I lost my travel partner..