You know how people say they have a bucket list? Mine is pretty simple. I want to see 6 of the 7 continents before I die. (Antarctica is pretty hard so I’m saving it for extra credit.) I’ve crossed 3 off of my list, North America (duh), Europe (twice) and South America (amazing).
I lived in London for a semester in college which was amazing and could rate several blog posts all on its own, but I digress. While I was there I did some traveling and I saw a fellow backpacker with *patches* on his backpack. It was just about the coolest thing I had ever seen. Way better than spoons or thimbles. I have some friends who collect playing cards from their travels, but then what do you do with the cards? Seems like a storage hassel to me.
Patches are so much easier. I just stitched them on in no particular order as I acquired them. I will admit to being a bit of an addict. It’s just fun for me to see a patch for Peru next to one for Aquarena Springs in San Marcos. I should probably also admit that I love tourist traps and it is one of my goals in life to see the world’s largest ball of twine. I sure hope they have patches in the gift shop. 🙂
Well, my backpack is on it’s last legs, not to mention out of room for any more patches. Then there’s the fact that traveling with a toddler is not conducive to a one backpack mentality. We I hope to do some more traveling when Kate is older, but that will likely require us winning the lottery in which case I’ll buy a new backpack. 🙂
That being said, I just can’t bring myself to let my patches go, so I busted out my trusty seam ripper (thanks again, Mimi!) and removed them all. I’m thinking of putting them in a shadow box (boxes?) in the hallway with our travel pictures. I sense a trip to Ikea in my near future. 🙂
Any thoughts on how to display them? I’m not sure if I want to sort them by geographical area, date of trip or just arrange them how they look pretty. Oh, and if anyone has a trip to Denmark planned in the near future, I’m missing a patch from there. I might have to resort to ordering one off of the interwebs, but it irritates me to pay $5 in shipping for a $2 item.