Souvenirs–What do you take home with you?

Traveling always brings up the question of what to bring home to remind us of the places we visited.  At one time, I lugged all sorts of useless junky things home–keychains, magnets, glasses, socks, whatever caught my eye and had the name plastered all over it to announce to everyone where I have been.  I like to take photos and create scrapbooks of my travels.  I always included tickets, receipts, brochures, and many, many postcards along with my pictures.  The scrapbooks sometimes spilled from one overfilled book to two overfilled book of the same place–just one week of traveling.  Then I started to travel more frequently sometimes the same city more than once–London, Paris, Dublin, Edinburgh–I didn’t need nor desire the same junky souvenirs.   Continue reading