For my fifth tip I have decided to share what my wife and I discovered on our trip to Seaside, Oregon. As with most tourists we always want to relive our trips. We have bought t-shirts, hats, an occasional bag or bumper sticker and this does let us have something that brings back memories of our travels.
However when we were on our engagement trip in Seaside we ended up in this cool little gallery. They had lots of nifty (and expensive) art pieces. We kept talking about a few pieces and how we would love to hang them in our house. Then as if in a cartoon, a light bulb popped on over our heads and we said in unison "why not just buy that instead of stuff that we will never use". And we did, and hung the piece up in our living room, where every day we would see it and think back on our wonderful trip.
This has led us to buy a cool print or art piece on each trip we have taken (I have even been inspired to take artistic photos for framing around the house). From Hawaii and St Thomas, we have prints of pieces by local artists. From Disney, we have maps and an upscale print, as well as reproductions of original posters for attractions like the Matterhorn. Some of these pieces may be used in our nursery, as we are hoping to infect the little one with the travel bug at an early age.
This will allow us to be able to decorate our house in the paraphernalia that we have accumulated over a lifetime of traveling. I mean really, would you rather be the cool family with the awesome collection of African figurines, or just another guy with a Tijuana t-Shirt?
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