Today was a bit of a rest and recovery day, so we just made a few trips around to the scenic views and to the shops for our sticker for the Airstream.
All of these parks and travel destinations have definitely figured out marketing. There are people that collect patches, stickers, pins, shot glasses, plates, hats, shirts, etc. Well,. I guess every place does that, not just national parks. Great way for the business to make some high margin impulse sales, and fun to look at the collection and remember when we went wherever etc.
Two years ago, we decided to go with stickers.
Whenever we have visited a national park or a cool place, we find a sticker for the inside door of the airstream.
You can even do a little amateur investigative work and assume that we mostly put them on like a sane person, left to right, top to bottom. (We did sneak in some smaller stickers to fill in the space.) From that, you can see that our first trip was to Key West back in 2023. In fact, we actually bought this 27ft International on our 25th Anniversary two years ago, hence the “25” on our plate.
Our first trip was a little wimpy trip from our house in SW Florida down 75, across Alligator Alley, around Miami, and down Highway 1 all the way to Key West. That was sure a bumpy trip and quite the learning experience! We have come a LONG way in terms of destinations, trip distances, and certainly finding the bumpiest roads we could!
Back to the stickers…What do we do when we sell the airstream and go to a little longer unit? Well, I guess we have to start over! Actually, we will probably just replace them. I bet we can order them on Amazon. (Bloop, they’ll be here tomorrow!)
While we were checking out the stickers, we also wandered over to see the Grand Canyon again. We were really close to Mather Point, and honestly, that was one of the main attractions Ben wanted to see here. The namesake of Mather Point was not a relative, as far as we know. His name was Stephen Mather, an American industrialist and conservationist, and he was the first director of the brand new National Park Service back in 1917. The point is also a very cool view from that perch.
However, the REAL reason we came to Mather point was for the pictures below. What a couple of dorks.
Speaking of pointing, we also stumbled across a book in the gift shop that hit just a little too close to home…
We flipped through it quickly and were very relieved (but a tiny bit surprised, honestly) to see that Ann wasn’t mentioned.
Shew, we didn’t get busted!
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