While sorting through our loft room recently, we came across a number of holiday souvenirs from our childhoods. It seems as though travel blogging was in our stars. In the olden days (as our goddaughter likes to say), you know, when we had three TV channels, used rotary dial telephones and the concept of the world wide web lay in the realms of science fiction, we had scrapbooks, postcards, felt-tipped pens and glue. A very lucky little girl went to America for the first time in 1979. Little did she know then that the trip of a lifetime would become a lifetime of trips.
So, without further ado (with a very brief aside to offer apologies to the goat), please find Mitch’s very first travel pre-blog blog:
Over forty years later, we still keep ticket stubs and brochures as souvenirs. They are slowly filling up our house…
- Best Time To Visit Machu Picchu 2024 Update
- A 2 Week Patagonia Itinerary
- Day of the Dead in Campeche
- A Galapagos Land Based Itinerary
- RECIPE: How to Make Costa Rica’s Gallo Pinto
- A Tasty Puebla Food Tour
- Costa Rica Wildlife Sanctuary – Caño Negro
- Visit Torres del Paine National Park in Patagonia
- Atacama Desert Itinerary
Love your first-ever travel blog! Back in storage in Australia, I have a similar diary full of photos, stickers, and receipts dating back to our first trip to Europe in 1988.
Thank you! It was a real joy finding the scrapbooks and looking through them – it triggered lots of great memories. There is something special about keeping physical souvenirs – photos and stickers etc.
I love this! Such a great recap of a trip that made such an impression on you!
Thank you. It was such a pleasure to find the scrapbook and relieve the memories. (And recall some I had forgotten!)
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