One of the strange things about travel is that, eventually, you get the opportunity to bring back with you something so unique and unusal that no one who lives in the place you've visited has seen, let alone owns the thing you've bought to bring home. Nor would ever want to own such a thing. You'd be hard pressed to find anyone in Washington, DC who owns a pair of "Washington Monument Salt and Pepper shakers", for example. Or a snow globe with a Library of Congress inside being snowed on. Or find anyone here who would wear a t-shirt with our President's face on it. Perish the thought. It is my experience that kitchy chachcas as a memento of a vacation is something that mostly Americans find attractive. You almost never see anyone from "over there" or from "up there" or even from "down there" buying this crap. Its mostly visitors from Oshkosh or Des Moines or Bayside or Grovers Corners that makes a trip to the Souvenir Store a major focus of their visit here. Now this is not to say that this is a bad thing. It's just weird.

Stumble It!