Behold: All the findings that somehow remained in my wallet through the year
-Ticket stub for the Buenos Aires futbol match San Lorenzo vs. San Luis, truly an experience watching the fans as much as the game.
-Ticket to the Taj Mahal along with the phone number of the guy from Bangalore who helped me communicate to the bus driver that I was about to miss my flight to Turkey if he didn’t step on it.
-Beer Lao beer label
-The business card for the bar in Phnom Penh I was at the night of the accident
-Business card from a club in Kars, Turkey, on the Armenian border
-Business card from the first hostel I stayed at on my entire trip in Lima, Peru: Barranco Backpacker’s
-Moroccan gum wrapper
-2000 Vietnamese dong currency (about 13 cents)
-Train ticket from Saigon to DaNang in Vietnam
-Ticket stub for Mt. Nemrut Dagi in Mesopotamia
-Ticket stub for Angkor Wat
-Ticket stub for Kuang Xi waterfalls outside Luang Prabang, where I biked through the countryside 30 km each way
-Ticket stub for Beng Melea; I rode on the back of a motorbike more than 60 km each way to reach this abandoned, unvisited jewel.
-Ticket stub for Pamukkale, Turkey
-Ticket stub for the worst journey I have ever taken by plane from Buenos Aires to Auckland, New Zealand. This was the only problem I had on any of the flights I took (and here’s hoping my flight home goes smoothly!) We sat in the plane on the runway for 4 hours before they finally told us to get off: our flight was being delayed 12 hours.
-1000 Lao Kip currency (about 25 cents)
-a 1 Turkish Lira bill: a true souvenir that got passed to me- they don’t make 1 Lira bills anymore. 1 Lira comes in coin form.
-Business card for my Auberge in the Mauritanian sahara
-Ticket for Camera Obscura, a Glasgow pop band I saw last week in Barcelona
-An archaic looking cardboard ticket for a train ride in India from Darjeeling to Varanasi
-The business card of the French guy whose chauffeur drove me 4 hours to Dakar from Saint-Louis
-The business card of the Moroccan architect who gave me the keys to his apartment in Essaouira (and told me to keep them so I always have a home there whenever I want to come back).
-Magnet from my favorite steakhouse in Argentina
-Hostel club card from New Zealand
-Various coins from every country
