3 Ideal Traveling Mementos
04-02-2018
Author: in Education
Unlike most “sticks and bricks” homes, RVs offer much less in the way of storage options. For those that like to preserve memories of travels to new locations with various souvenirs, finding places for each item can become a big challenge. There are only so many T-shirts a drawer can hold and a limited amount of space to display your collection of knick knacks from every national park and seaside town.
Remember the boulders Lucy collected in The Long, Long Trailer? Not only is excessive collecting a burden on living space, but it puts an unnecessary and troublesome load on your rig resulting in costly repairs. There are much more practical and less cumbersome ways RVers can memorialize their adventures on the road.
National Park Passport
We have met and read about many RVers that have a goal of visiting all of our country’s national parks. We’ve visited a little over a handful ourselves. For us, no park visit is complete without a stop at the visitor’s center for a cancellation or two. Cancellations are free stamps that include the park name, location, and visitation date. A stamp can also include an image synonymous with the park.
Cancellation stamps are typically collected in a national park passport, a blue pocketbook. We ordered our passport via eparks.com, an online store operated by Eastern National. This company is affiliated with the national parks system and a huge contributor to the educational enhancement of each preservation.
As a passport holder, you have the capability of adding on to your small journal with sticker stamp sets, cloth covers, and badges. Even with all this swag, the keepsake can easily fit in a small handbag or tucked away in a drawer.
Digital Journals and Photo Albums
Today’s technology allows users the privilege of storing and accessing memory online, a virtual storage unit of written dialogue and images. Upon deciding to live and travel the countryside in an RV, we immediately took to blogging, recording our journey’s beginnings, happenstances, and mishaps for family, friends, and anyone interested in the lifestyle.
Keeping up with an online journal or website is not everyone’s preferred route. Social media networks may be a more convenient platform for sharing adventures. A daily or weekly picture and /or a statement on Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter, or Instagram are much simpler modes of chronologically recording travels.
There are also online storage services like Google Drive or iCloud that allow easy access from any computer. In any case, these forms of storage eliminate the alternative, stacks of physical albums and journals.
Trinket Savers
If you are like me, you have a hankering to collect stuff, a certain kind of item, from each destination. Although it may seem like a hobby that could easily get out of control, with the right collectibles and means of storing, it can actually become not only a decorative memory, but a functional one as well.
Souvenirs like charms can be added to bracelets, creating colorful accessories and storytelling pieces. I like to collect pins and decorate handbags and hats. I have observed other RVers utilize pins on tapestries illustrating a map of our country. The pins mark locations they have visited.
If you are an avid concert or event attendee and have a pile of tickets, covering a table top with them is not only creative and space-saving but does not take away from the functionality of the furniture. Materials like epoxy resin permanently encapsulate the mementos as opposed to applying a glass sheet which allows items to be added or taken away.
There are still many, many practical and unique ways to save your traveling adventures. Share your space-saving memento tips below!
Remember the boulders Lucy collected in The Long, Long Trailer? Not only is excessive collecting a burden on living space, but it puts an unnecessary and troublesome load on your rig resulting in costly repairs. There are much more practical and less cumbersome ways RVers can memorialize their adventures on the road.
National Park Passport
We have met and read about many RVers that have a goal of visiting all of our country’s national parks. We’ve visited a little over a handful ourselves. For us, no park visit is complete without a stop at the visitor’s center for a cancellation or two. Cancellations are free stamps that include the park name, location, and visitation date. A stamp can also include an image synonymous with the park.
Cancellation stamps are typically collected in a national park passport, a blue pocketbook. We ordered our passport via eparks.com, an online store operated by Eastern National. This company is affiliated with the national parks system and a huge contributor to the educational enhancement of each preservation.
As a passport holder, you have the capability of adding on to your small journal with sticker stamp sets, cloth covers, and badges. Even with all this swag, the keepsake can easily fit in a small handbag or tucked away in a drawer.
Digital Journals and Photo Albums
Today’s technology allows users the privilege of storing and accessing memory online, a virtual storage unit of written dialogue and images. Upon deciding to live and travel the countryside in an RV, we immediately took to blogging, recording our journey’s beginnings, happenstances, and mishaps for family, friends, and anyone interested in the lifestyle.
Related Read: RV Souvenirs
Keeping up with an online journal or website is not everyone’s preferred route. Social media networks may be a more convenient platform for sharing adventures. A daily or weekly picture and /or a statement on Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter, or Instagram are much simpler modes of chronologically recording travels.
There are also online storage services like Google Drive or iCloud that allow easy access from any computer. In any case, these forms of storage eliminate the alternative, stacks of physical albums and journals.
Trinket Savers
If you are like me, you have a hankering to collect stuff, a certain kind of item, from each destination. Although it may seem like a hobby that could easily get out of control, with the right collectibles and means of storing, it can actually become not only a decorative memory, but a functional one as well.
Souvenirs like charms can be added to bracelets, creating colorful accessories and storytelling pieces. I like to collect pins and decorate handbags and hats. I have observed other RVers utilize pins on tapestries illustrating a map of our country. The pins mark locations they have visited.
If you are an avid concert or event attendee and have a pile of tickets, covering a table top with them is not only creative and space-saving but does not take away from the functionality of the furniture. Materials like epoxy resin permanently encapsulate the mementos as opposed to applying a glass sheet which allows items to be added or taken away.
There are still many, many practical and unique ways to save your traveling adventures. Share your space-saving memento tips below!
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