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Travel Bug: Home Edition

Plushie Passport Stamp-ede

(A whirlwind home expedition by Doggie—snack-fueled traveler and Chief Stamp Officer.)

The Idea That Escaped the Suitcase

It started like most of my best ideas: mid-nap, mid-snack, mid-spring-roll. I sat up and declared, “What if every room in the house… was a country?”

Pandy blinked. “Are you proposing… plushie tourism?”
“Yes,” I replied, full of purpose and potato chip crumbs. “We shall stamp our passports, taste the snacks of every land, and maybe—just maybe—find that missing sock in the Forbidden Closet of Mystery.”

Border Patrol and Snack Customs

We crafted our Plushie Passports from folded construction paper. Pandy drew maps with shockingly accurate topography of the Couch Archipelago. I invented stamps using marker caps and leftover stickers.

Mini Blue’s job: color-coded immigration scanner.
(Blue = Welcome. Pink = Suspicious Fruit in Backpack.)

Around the House in 8 Rooms

🇫🇷 La Cuisine Française (The Kitchen)

Cuisine: warm baguette crusts, cheese samples, suspicious grapes.
Stamp: Tiny croissant.
Notable customs: One must compliment the chef (or the toaster).

🐪 The Desert of Denio (Laundry Room)

Cuisine: None. We forgot.
Stamp: A sock pyramid.
Notable event: Lost one slipper. Gained one dryer sheet in return.

🐉 Great Toy Wall of Playroomia

Cuisine: Two gummies under the couch. Debated origin. Ate anyway.
Stamp: Crayon dragon.
Customs: Must offer tribute (a LEGO brick) to the couch overlord.

🛁 Spa-Landia (Bathroom)

Cuisine: Mint toothpaste. Not recommended.
Stamp: Bubble with rubber duck.
Rule: No cannonballs without clearance.

🕯️ Pandy’s Tea Garden (Backyard)

Cuisine: Herbal tea, dandelion leaves, one rogue marshmallow.
Stamp: Cherry blossom.
Pandy hosted a silent meditation. I hosted a loud marshmallow roast.

Souvenirs & Security Checks

We ended our world tour in Pillowfortsylvania, our “home embassy.” Pandy tallied passport stamps. I reviewed snack inventory. Mini Blue turned a soft aquamarine, indicating peaceful completion.

“Any lessons?” Pandy asked.
I nodded solemnly. “Every land is rich in wonder. But some have better snacks.”

Doggie’s Final Stamp of Approval

You don’t need a plane to travel. You just need imagination, a good map, and friends who’ll follow you into The Closet of Mystery (and agree to pretend it’s a jungle). Passport stamp not required—but it helps.