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Share click to enlarge I found this ad in a tourist book from 1972, one of the years my grandparents traveled to Hong Kong. The ad wasn’t on a two-page spread. This was it. …from China! In 1972 travelers couldn’t enter China easily. For some, it was closed off. For others, the country was so [...] Share click to enlarge I’ve enjoyed Grace Lin’s colorful picture books for quite a few years. Dim Sum for Everyone is one of my favorites–and my kids love it, too. My oldest son has enjoyed Lin’s middle grades books (Year of the Dog and Year of the Rat). For Hannukah last year, I gave [...] Share click to enlarge My grandma gave me this luggage label from one of her stays in Bora Bora 40 years ago. My grandparents loved Bora Bora, an island in French Polynesia. And I love luggage labels. What a fun souvenir. My friends at Gwulo.com posted a great article yesterday about the history of luggage [...] Share click to enlarge In honor of the World Cup, I’m posting this luggage tag my grandparents received in the early 1970s when they flew from Chicago to Johannesburg. Back in the day, hotels and airlines gave out stickers like this one. Flying to South Africa during apartheid wasn’t easy. My grandparents flew from Chicago [...] Share click to enlarge My parents got married in early March 1969. Less than 6 weeks before their wedding, my mom’s brother traveled through the Soviet Union. He sent this postcard from Leningrad in late January 1969 (although the picture is of the Black Sea in the Crimea). In the postcard, he wrote to his [...] |
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