<p>Do you or your family have a travel mascot? What’s the story behind it?</p>
<p>No, but there were a few years where some kid named Flat Stanley had to tag along.</p>
<p>When my son was very young he had to have his Cabbage Patch Kid, until in Puerto Rico, they took it from him to examine it for drugs. He was six years old and completely insulted.
Swore he would never go back there.</p>
<p>Many years ago a friend of mine bought a small stuffed bear and for years after that when anyone in our circle took a major trip any where, that person took the bear with them and bought him stuff (tiny clothes, etc.). He’s been more places than almost anyone I know. I asked for him when I went to Paris recently, but he was lost up in an attic somewhere. I was sad.</p>