The four-story, classic vehicle-filled LeMay- America’s Car Museum recently celebrated its first anniversary in Tacoma, Washington.
In addition to a display of more than 350 cars, trucks and motorcycles, the museum houses a nifty slot car track.
The LeMay also a has great gift shop, which is where I found these treasures:
London’s Foundling Museum tells the story of the Foundling Hospital, which opened in 1739 and was London’s first home for abandoned children.
When babies were left there, mothers usually left tokens and small objects such as coins, jewelry, buttons and other items – even something as simple as a playing card or a nut – which could later be used as identification should someone want to reclaim the child.
Some children were later reunited with their mothers, but thousands weren’t – and the tokens linked to many of those unclaimed children still remain in the Foundling Museum’s collection.
In a exhibition titled Fate, Hope & Charity some of the tokens left with babies between 1741 and 1760 are on display, along with the stories of the foundlings they were connected to.
(Photos courtesy of London’s Foundling Museum)
You’ll find Red Lion Hotels in many west coast and Pacific Northwest cities and at my recent stay at a Red Lion Columbia Center in Kennewick, WA, I was handed a complimentary bottle of water at check-in because I’d signed up to be a member of the Red Lion R&R Club.
I drank the water late that night and was about to put the bottle in the trash can when I noticed the neck tag on the bottle said “Plant Me.”
I turned the tag over and learned that it is made of handmade paper embedded with annual and perennial wildflower seeds that I can plant in my backyard.
It’s a great, simple, green and very easy-to-carry souvenir of my stay and – in honor of Earth Day – my Souvenir Sunday pick for this week.
Have you picked up – or been given – an inexpensive and impressive souvenir while out on the road?
If so, please snap a photo and send it along.
If your souvenir is featured on Souvenir Sunday, I’ll send you a fun travel-themed souvenir.
Travelers have been trying to get a glimpse of the storied but elusive Sasquatch – or Bigfoot – for ages.
Now he’s easy to spot at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.
Several Hudson shops I stopped into yesterday had extensive Sasquatch displays with t-shirts, mugs, stuffed animals and, my favorite category of kitschy souvenirs: candy Sasquatch ‘poop.’
It’s Souvenir Sunday – the day we take a look at some of the fun, inexpensive and locally-linked items for sale at airports.
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This week’s souvenirs come to us from the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport, courtesy of Christopher Shaberg, author of The Textual Life of Airports: Reading the Culture of Flight
Christopher lives in New Orleans and sent out a tweet that he was heading to the airport to pick up some visiting family members. I asked him to poke around for fun souvenirs.
Here are just a few of the snaps he sent.
As a thank-you, I’ll be sending Christopher a StuckatTheAirport.com travel souvenir.
Want one too?
Next time you’re at an airport, take some photos of souvenirs that are fun, inexpensive (about $10) and “of” the city or regiona you’re visiting. Send them along and, if they’re featured on Souvenir Sunday, I’ll send you a travel souvenir.
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