What do you collect when you travel?

[D Quintero]

for beachside getaways, I'll getta bottle full of the sand ...fridge magnets are also a fav, but most of all, with relatives la/san diego, chicago and grand rapids? its all about the beers & breweries.

 

[itallushrt]

Trophy animals. Most of my vacations center around hunting or fishing and almost all have a very specific species as the goal.

 

[SurpriseMVP]

When I was younger and single I was just happy to make it home alive from a vacation. Now add 15 years, a wife, and 2 kids: We always pick up a Christmas ornament. It eliminates the clutter since it's packed 10 months of the year and it's actually really cool when we decorate the tree and start pulling them out. Brings back a lot of great memories.

 

[Monsterdg]

My daughter and I collect the squished pennys as well. I like the Christmas ornament idea, but I wonder if it's difficult to find off season? We're usually heading to the coast for vac and I don't recall seeing many ornaments.

I tried to get local cigars, but found that most don't have a band, which I would like to put in my collection.

 

[ciggy]

I collected those cool stickers from every state. I still have them all somewhere. Stickers were a cool collectable thing with kids back in those days.

I'll buy magnets and put them on my fridge

Christmas Tree ornaments. We have them in various styles ans sizes from all over the world, and have even made a few of our own out of local items.

I pick up shot glasses

Shot glasses

My favorite is from St Petersburg Russia, and has a russian coin as the bottom, and the whole thing is a very ornate casting of the city.

I try and find the "Squished Pennies"

I have a book they made that holds them and its almost full, time to get another book and a few more new shiney pennies!

All of these are on our list of memoralbillia.

 

[SurpriseMVP]

My daughter and I collect the squished pennys as well. I like the Christmas ornament idea, but I wonder if it's difficult to find off season? We're usually heading to the coast for vac and I don't recall seeing many ornaments.

I tried to get local cigars, but found that most don't have a band, which I would like to put in my collection.

Crazy as it may seem you can find ornaments in the middle of July even next to a beach. Just got back from Hawaii and got a cool one from a local art event right on the beach.

 

[aea6574]

Tend to eat local foods as others have mentioned.

Also like to figure out local things and maybe get a small something like a glass object from Malta or Spain, a crazy painted rooster from Portugal.

I am not a big clutter person so I don't always get something but if it is small and would look cool in my house I do.

tony

 

[orangedog]

Local food, coffee mugs, and golf shirts

 

[maverickdrinker]

I used to collect notches on my belt but I am married now...:starrylov

 

[yellen]

Béer is a nice option. You can find some gems like this. Only problem being the weight.


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[RustySmoke]

I travel by motorcycle a lot. I have a vest that I put patches and pins on from a lot of the good places I have been.

 

[ftnig]

cigar bands from locally rolled cigars.

 

[cartisdm]

cigar bands from locally rolled cigars.

There's what I'm looking for. Do you have a hard time finding local cigars when you travel places?

 

[ftnig]

some times if you check the web it can be helpful.

 

[Paneotto]

Fridge magnets.

 

[orangedog]

I used to collect notches on my belt but I am married now...:starrylov

Classic.

 

[veeref]

Starbucks mugs. Kind of limits it to big cities though.

 

[Mmalone999]

Golf balls. Might start the locally rolled cigars idea...

 

[danthebugman]

Back in the day it was insects. Yeah, you expected something different with a guy who's screen name is danthebugman :dunno:. Carried collecting equipment in my truck and any time I made a pit stop I would scout around. Gave away my collection to the high school a few year ago when we moved...suppose it's probably under a pile of debris now...this means they probably could use a new one :thinkidea :grin:.

Dan

 

[cartisdm]

Golf balls. Might start the locally rolled cigars idea...

A friend of mine does this. He loves it and has some pretty cool ones from some great courses too.

I'm headed to Chicago with some friends on Thursday and staying though Sunday. Any recommendations on a B&M to buy from? We're staying at the La Quinta Inn on One South Franklin street (here) The other guys I'm going with aren't big cigar guys so I'll probably break off by myself for a while and find somewhere close by to check out