Souvenirs

When I was young, my mom used to go on trips. When she went on trips, she always brought me back a souvenir, and usually it was one based on my favorite animals - insects. I distinctly remember a golden dragonfly pin she brought me back from some event on the West Coast, and I remember wondering if I would ever see or go into the Pacific Ocean some day. I still wonder if I ever will, honestly. She brought me back pamphlets from the museum of medical oddities on one of the last vacations she took without me. We've mostly traveled as a family since I graduated high school, with the majority of traveling being getting me to and from university, but we did also spend a week at Yellowstone National Park. My souvenir there was just a camera roll full of buffalo. And also a new app for my phone that could identify birds called Merlin. And we saw a huge moose right on the trail we had planned in walking, derailing that plan.