HAWAII MEMENTOS

Souvenirs of | Oahu

souvenirs of oahu

souvenirs of oahu

1. Honolulu Museum of Art Brochure
2. Battleship Missouri Memorial Brochure
3. Hawaiian Airlines eye mask and ear plugs
4. Sea Sports low volume free dive mask
5. Deck of vintage print cards for playing in our cabin
6. Hula girl ornament
7. Honolulu Museum of Art sticker
8. Shangri-la paper fan
9. USS Missouri magnet
10. USS Bowfin magnet
11. Seea swimwear tag
12. Patagonia Haleiwa trucker hat (these things are super comfortable)
13. The Bus ticket stubs
14. Map of Malaekahana Beach Campground
15. Poem excerpt by Rumi, given to me at Shangri-la
16. Postcard from local art exhibit at HMOFA

We actually did a lot of shopping while in Oahu, or at least a lot more than we normally do, which is practically none. Since it was our first time back in the US since moving to Korea we kind of spent a lot of time roaming around Target and Nordstrom Rack, amazed at all the recognizable products we could buy. While in Hawaii, we also stocked up hippie foods and products that we haven’t been able to find or have shipped to Korea. As for real souvenirs, we purchased our usual magnet and ornament and I found a trucker hat at the Patagonia store in Haleiwa. I’m not really sure I’m trucker hat material but this one actually fit my head so I bought it. The rest of the stuff is just random stuff I can’t seem to stop collecting on any given trip.

I don’t know why I enjoy creating and looking at collections of souvenirs so much. Maybe because individually each little memento or scrap of paper holds little meaning, yet when combined together they form an almost three-dimensional snapshot of our trip. Instead of a million photos, this singular image of a hodgepodge of collected items totally sums it all up in as few words as possible. Maybe instead of posting photos dragged out over weeks of blog posts, months (years, even!) after the fact, I should stick to just posting one photo just like this.  I find the thought of an album filled with one photo from each trip strangely appealing.

This concludes the Hawaii posts! For now! And it only took me nearly a year after the fact. Augh. I still have a video that I’m sure will take me another couple of years to compile so keep your eyes peeled five years into the future. We now return to our regularly scheduled posts on daily life…

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  • Funnelcloud Rachel
    June 24, 2016 at 10:51 pm

    Yes! Love this one – so Hawaiian and cheerful. I have a big pile of travel detritus avalanching all over my desk that I need to archive and sort through, because…hoarder…

  • veronika
    June 25, 2016 at 6:12 am

    After ever trip I toss my collected junk in a shoebox where it waits until I get around to taking the photo. Which is usually like a year later. I need to get in the habit of taking the photo right away so I can just toss my pile of “souvenirs.”

  • Kevin
    June 25, 2016 at 11:21 am

    A little hula girl with a…Santa hat? I like it! And the fan. I like the fan. I hope you and Sly have sprung for a little air conditioner. The Sun’s been down for about an hour here and there’s steam hanging in the air. And not that exotic Hawaii steam, either. Just that old funky goodgoditshot steam.

    Keeping Good Thoughts…

  • veronika
    June 25, 2016 at 12:46 pm

    We have ac in two rooms of our house but it’s really expensive to keep running so we use room fans mostly. After we returned from HK though everything has felt relatively cool. HK was like dripping sweat hot and humid.