Below: The ever-changing TRAVEL TREES OF THE TWO RV GYPSIES. |
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While at the Tybee Island Lighthouse, the two RV Gypsies met some very nice people. After talking for awhile, the ladies asked Karen Duquette to post pictures of her Travel Tree on her website, so here are the pictures.(Ladies, please use the guestbook button above and sign in so that Karen knows you visited her site. Thank you, we enjoyed talking with you. )Karen Duquette tries to buy something that hangs wherever she goes; something that says where they are, and often that is just a keychain. She also buys, pins and patches. But more often than not, a place they visit does not even have a Visitor Center or gift shop. Obviously the travel ornaments can not show up very well in the photos. |
Item 1: Three different trees are shown below - 2013, 2015, and 2020. The two RV Gypsies have outgrown the smaller trees, as they are constantly buying ornaments as they travel. |
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2013 travel tree in the RV |
2015 tree in the RV - 112 travel ornaments |
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Below: 2020 Travel Tree - The two RV Gypsies have their RV in their daughter's yard for the winter. They did not travel much in the RV due to the Coronavirus, so they bought a live Douglas Fir tree for their daughter's guest house. It has about 225 travel items on it, plus some photos of their grandchildren and great-grandchildren. More will be added each year, of course. |
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Item 2: This is the "wire tree" (2014 photo taken in the RV and 2020 photo taken in their daughter's guest house). Karen Duquette places some breakable ornaments that would be difficult to replace on the wire tree. Notice the belts hanging alongside the wire tree in the RV. Those are patches from National Parks and some state parks. In 2014, they had only four belts full. In 2020, they had 92 items on six belts, and no room for more. |
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Item 3: Keychains from different places in Canada - hung over the entry door of the RV. The two RV Gypsies once counted 122 keychains hanging throughout the RV for Christmas decoration, and travel memories in of the year 2015. Now, there are many more than that. |
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Item 4: The two photos below show some of the other keychains from places the two RV Gypsies have visited. There was also another section of keychains hanging over the front windows of the RV. |
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Below: The dining area of the RV. |
Below is 1 of 3 boards |
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Also, Karen Duquette has a hat full of Alaska pins, and a hat full of pins from Canada, plus a hiking hat with 24 wildlife pins. |
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Below: A few samples of some of the travel ornaments. Totals as of 2020 are 225 items on the Christmas tree, including 15 from Alaska, 41 from Canada and 16 from other countries.That is not counting the 93 items which are mostly National Parks and State Park patches that are hanging on 6 belts. Nor the pins and keychains on the 4 corkboards - 45 Alaska pins, 65 Canada pins and so many more from all over the USA. And more will always be added each year. |
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