Do you travel with a mascot?

I've been adding to my mascot collection on the road... Reply to this

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Thought I better join in as I am a traveling mascot. I am called antibody man because my legs look like an antibody. I go anywhere in the world that my lab like to take me.

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Yep, we have recently aquired Rodderick!
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Some of these mascots look amazingly pristine! I'm not quite so kind to mine;Hamish survived 30000kms round Australia on the prow of our 4x4 before being strapped to my backpack to be crammed into aircraft luggage holds and shoved ayop freezing bus roofs. The only chance he got for a wash was when it rained or as here, when we crossed a river. He now sits happily in our bedroom and seems much happier to be home than either of us! Reply to this

I am not travelling with a mascot, but have accumulated bits and pieces along the way that now decorate my backpack - a Beijing Olympic 2008 flag, a little hand-made chain from (Malaysian) Borneo, a red prayer banner from Hua Shan mountain in China.... Reply to this

The other mascot I carry is Polly, haven't included a photo of her before on this thread - but here she is in Singapore at the front row for The Lion King.

The other front photo of her is not mine, but it shows the normal view I have of Polly when opening my camera bag 😉 Reply to this

I now have a travel sized mascot, who is comming to SE Asia with me this month. Here is Midget Bear, made for my birthday by my 10 year old daughter, Lydia. 😊

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I dont actually have a mascot as such..ive been pondering this question due to my enforced ceiling gazing..i have a travel habit that I like to think is a mascot that is as fleeting as the moment I spend with people overseas.

I take bubbles, little bottles of those stick things and soapy liquid for kids to blow bubbles. Everywhere I go, because I am a lucky and blessed person, I go to an orphanage and obviously buy rice but never donate money and I spend at least an hour blowing bubbles with kids.

I discovered years ago that bubbles are universal. From a highland village in PNG to a market in Versaille, sit and blow bubbles at a bunch of kids and everyone smiles. Maybe the symbolism of a bubble as a mascot is she was here and away she went on the wind in the blink of an eye. Reply to this

I think travelling with a mascot is kind of cute when other people do it, but I would never think of doing it myself. I have enough to carry around without a mascot. Reply to this

Another two from Wylie - love these photos!


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