What do you collect from your trips?

kiltman · Jan 14, 2016

Bugs! and because I really don't want to remember them I wash them off the bike every chance I get. Last Summer in Saskatchewan there were a lot of tiny white butterflies, I'm still finding them hidden in crevices in the fairing and cowls.

Indian Express · Jan 14, 2016

Lots of photos,(keep memories alive), friends, shot glasses and magnets.

SilberPfeil · Jan 14, 2016

I'll occasionally buy a T-shirt. I sometimes forget, but I try to buy stickers. I put them on the inside of my topcase lid.

No - I haven't ridden in Sweden (Sverige).

JRob · Jan 14, 2016

When going to national parks I always stop and get one of the brass pins. Easy to pack.

Joseph/TX · Jan 14, 2016

T-shirts and traffic tickets..

BakerBoy · Jan 15, 2016

LOL ... I was waiting for someone to say 'tickets'

I never bring back objects like tshirts, mugs, pins, stickers, etc. For me, it is pictures, fading memories, and tire wear. And I've taken fewer pictures as years have unfolded. Once underway, I have to convince me, myself, or I (one of the three is always grumpy about stopping) to turn around and stop at picturesque places.

Grabcon · Jan 15, 2016

We collect craft beer glasses. Oh what a chore. So last October I built a case that holds 72 pint glasses. I is now full and this spring I must build two more. This is all great unless we move and we have to pack them. One consolation is that we keep them clean with their constant wash.

Afan · Jan 15, 2016

Since many mentioned pictures - where and how you're storing them? Do you use, and which if yes, any online service (like Flickr, Picasa, Dropbox...)?

Oldbikefixr · Jan 15, 2016

Afan said:
Since many mentioned pictures - where and how you're storing them? Do you use, and which if yes, any online service (like Flickr, Picasa, Dropbox...)?

We organize the photos onto an external hard drive (1T). Occasionally, we burn a completed category onto DVD. With flash drive capacity growing and their price dropping, some are downloaded onto the flash drives. Gotta keep them organized and well marked.
If you have a real keeper, one you are especially proud of, take it on a flash drive to an Office Depot or such and have some hard copy photos or a large frameable print made.

JQL · Jan 15, 2016

I wish I'd taken more photos. I've travelled large parts of the world and now the memories are fading. The photos I've taken do help to remind me of other events.

But I wish I'd taken more photos and put them in albums...

MajorTom · Jan 15, 2016

We always try and pick up a Christmas ornament somewhere on the trip. If we can't find one we'll pick up a keychain and make one from it. Every Christmas the memories come back as we decorate the tree.

STSusie · Jan 15, 2016

MajorTom said:
We always try and pick up a Christmas ornament somewhere on the trip. If we can't find one we'll pick up a keychain and make one from it. Every Christmas the memories come back as we decorate the tree.

What a cool idea!

Mark · Jan 15, 2016

I put them on a hard drive on the home network and recently I pointed the PC that controls my TV at the system/folder so I have a slide show of *all* the pictures that we've taken digitally.
Great memories and you never know what era you're going to get in the slide show!

TourNut · Jan 15, 2016

Shot glasses - starting in the '70s , never used them for intended purpose of drinking , & T-shirts , pictures

Kessie · Jan 15, 2016

Fridge magnets. But not allowed to put them on the fridge.

Have a metal sheet in the garage for that.
Kevin

scootac · Jan 15, 2016

You seem like the kind of guy that would have a fridge in the garage.
Well stocked too!!!

amorley · Jan 15, 2016

Memories, pictures, new friends and fridge magnets.................

Kessie · Jan 16, 2016

scootac said:
You seem like the kind of guy that would have a fridge in the garage.
Well stocked too!!!

Takes too much wall space. Cooler works just fine!

SMSW · Jan 16, 2016

I usually pick up a local cold or other bug somewhere along extended trips. Don't have much of a collection because they don't last (thankfully) for more than a week or two. I knew a guy who collected giardia and some other intestinal parasite on a camping trip out west. Now THAT was quite a coup. Two for the price of one.

ST-DocLizard1 · Jan 18, 2016

Besides photographs.............postcards and enameled pins.

What do you collect from your trips?

kiltman

Indian Express

SilberPfeil

JRob

Joseph/TX

R.I.P. - 2016/11/13

BakerBoy

It's all small stuff.

Grabcon

Afan

... and this is my real name.

Oldbikefixr

JQL

Growing old disgracefully :)

MajorTom

QuickBlue

STSusie

Mark

Gotta make tracks

TourNut

Kessie

scootac

Will Ride for Food

amorley

Kessie

SMSW

ST-DocLizard1