Forget your passport: here’s a better way to retain memories of cities visited around the world.
Keep the transit card (almost universal in any major city) that you used to get around. Not only is it likely to still have some stored value — and how much do transit agencies count on that ‘free’ money? — but it’s also a repository of stored memories. The trips you took, the sites you visited, and the people you met.
Match the cards below with these places: San Francisco, Rio, London, the Netherlands, Victoria Australia, Buenos Aires, Los Angeles, and of course Metro Vancouver.













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https://www.theguardian.com/money/2018/jun/30/transport-for-london-hoards-321m-from-dormant-oyster-cards
One of my funnest memories was using a Ventra card to hop the El train from Andersonville to Grant Park for the start of the Chicago Marathon. That train was full of runners, and a party atmosphere!
… and now you can just swipe your CC … I have 3 different generations of compass cards, all now redundant and culled from my wallet