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Souvenir Sunday: saved by Handy

09/09/12

At the end of August, I was thrilled to get to ride along on a delivery flight of a new Cathay Pacific 777 airplane from the Boeing plant in Everett, WA to Hong Kong. Unfortunately, my camera busted on the way. I took a few photos of the take-off festivities and the in-flight activities →

Souvenir Sunday at Hong Kong International Airport

09/02/12

I had two days to spend in Hong Kong this week and spent one of them touring Hong Kong International Airport. There’s an entire shopping mall in Terminal 2, with a Disney store and pretty much every shop you’d see in an upscale mall in any city. Terminal 1 has many of the same sort →

Souvenir Sunday at McCarran Int’l Airport

08/19/12

It’s Souvenir Sunday, the day StuckatTheAirport.com looks at fun and inexpensive gifts for sale in airport gift shops. This week’s souvenirs comes from McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas, where you can not only gamble (there are gaming machines throughout the airport), but find a a gambling-themed souvenir in just about every gift shop. →

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Greetings from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport

08/13/12

I have way too many souvenir coffee mugs at my house and have put a moratorium on buying or accepting any more. But I may have to make an exception for this one I spotted at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA) Sunday morning on my way to Las Vegas, which depicts Big Foot (or Sasquatch) as →

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Souvenir Sunday: snow globes and pet tornadoes

07/22/12

(courtesy Museum of the Modern Snow Globe) A lot of souvenir hunters were delighted when the Transportation Security Administration announced that, by mid-August, snow globes would once again be permitted in carry-on bags at all airport security checkpoints. “Snow globes that appear to contain less than 3.4 ounces (approximately tennis ball size) will be permitted →

Dishware inspired by airport terminal maps

07/12/12

I should be working, but instead I’m thinking about how to ditch all my old dishes and replace them with dinnerware sporting designs inspired by airport terminal maps. Danielle Gordon of Atlas Made makes these and, on her website, says “I love the imagery that enables us (or disables us, in some cases) to find →

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Souvenir Sunday at Bozeman Yellowstone International Airport

06/24/12

This week’s Souvenir Sunday items come to use (again!) from world traveler Jon Douglas, who sent this photo of lovely-looking huckleberry-themed products from Bozeman Yellowstone International Airport, the gateway to Yellowstone National Park. “It’s a neat-looking airport, with a wood-and-stone interior that makes you think you’re in a mountain lodge,” he said. Jon also sent →

Souvenir Sunday at San Francisco International Airport

06/10/12

What’s there to do when you’re stuck at the airport? You can eat, sleep, fret, read a book, take care of some paperwork, answer some email and, of course, shop for souvenirs. At San Francisco International Airport I recently found these oh-so-San Francisco stickers. And they are my pick for this week’s Souvenir Sunday →

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Perfume that smells like the airport

06/01/12

I smell London, I smell France. And, if I shell out $45 per bottle, I can get a whiff of Miami, Munich, Tokyo and 14 other cities. A new line of city-centric scents, identified by their airport city codes — CDG (Paris), LHR (London), DXB (Dubai) — and packaged in slender bottles with labels that look like →

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Souvenir Sunday at the New Orleans Airport

05/13/12

Souvenir Sunday at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport →

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