Guangzhou to Shenzhen train ticket (c) cwc0llins

Travel Memories are the best part of travel which remains with you for rest of the life. I can easily remember the sea side I visited almost 22 years ago. Yesterday, searching for some other documents, I found the train ticket of that journey. Wow! At that moment, I was feeling the time had started rolling back to the winter of 1988.

Photos are one kind of travel memoirs but its different from a train ticket or a boarding pass or a unused sugar packet. These objects are so obvious, so touchy and so memorable. They rejuvenate all the hidden memories of a long-past evening you have enjoyed alone or with your family or with someone who is no more with you.

Like many common travelers, I do collect all the unimportant elements from my tour like tickets, passes, brochures, bills, coupons, etc. Those are the priceless memoirs of my explorer self. And if you too do this, me and you are not alone in this habit. I found lots of people on Flickr do this and they have created fantastic groups for encouraging people like us.

Transport Timetables and Ticket SCANS Group on Flickr

“Transport Timetables and Ticket SCANS” is the largest group with more than 170 members and with almost 2000 scans of travel memories. The group pool has large numbers of contribution from Europe. Join this group, scan your collection and share it with others.

Vintage Travel Ephemera Group on Flickr

This group, with 256 Members and 1,626 items, features images of printed matter that was intended to be thrown away, but was brought back from someone’s travels anyway. Brochures, maps, flyers, luggage tags, magazine ads, travel agent’s posters, tickets, stickers, barf bags, timetables, menus, receipts, or any travel-related items on paper are welcome. All the items should be dated back before 1990.

Sucrology Group on Flickr

Sucrology is the hobby of collecting sugar sachets and/or packets. Sugar packet collectors are invited to join this group. This group has 27 members and 437 sugar packets inside it.

Hotel Postcards & Ephemera Group on Flickr

Hotel Postcards & Ephemera Group is for your postcards of Hotels. Commercial cards as well as those issued by hotels are welcome, as long as the hotel is the main focus in the image. Ephemera such as photos or scans of matchbook covers, brochures, ashtrays, glassware or cutlery, stationary and the like issued by the hotel (and bearing the hotel’s name) are also welcome in this group.

Matchbook Madness on Flickr

Matchbook Madness is a group of Matchbox collector around the globe. We usually buy a local matchbox on every journey but from now on will definitely share it with other.