I don’t travel a lot, but I have friends who do and every time they go out of town or go out of the country they made sure they bring in souvenirs for us, well, that’s always the case being Filipinos have this custom to include the whole family in whatever they do, big or small.
In particular I have a friend who works for an international non-governmental organization that allows her to travel to practically all corners of the world, from the remotest and coldest place called Vostok and to places where people barely sleep, New York – collecting data that is relevant for their research and in all these trips, she never come home empty handed, she would always have something for us.
She used to collect mugs from all over, but eventually got tired and dropped the idea – it’s bulky and she’d often fix broken ones at home. Her latest craze were these patriotic travel souvenirs, she collects anything that bears the country’s flag colors on it. Her latest was this eyeglasses frame that resembles a New Caledonian flag, it was pretty – wish I could go to that place too.
She’s wallowing in snow right now with her family in Ohio, for sure she’ll be back with souvenirs having American flags on it, I wish it would be dozens of ref magnets this time, I’ve been dying to have aplenty, I’m coming up with a project that needs all these and I want authentic ones.
Meantime, if you’re also into this souvenir collection thing, you can visit www.allstarflags.com for more of great one-of-a-kind memento.
Happy Holidays!
