The Many Travels Of
The other day, I looked a little more closely than usual at the $10 bill I was about to hand to a hot dog vendor, and noticed a stamp on the face with a website address: www.cdn-money.com.
Curious as to what the website could be, I gave the vendor a $20 instead (sorry, hot dog lady) and hung onto the stamped bill. As I suspected, the website turned out to be a currency-tracking site where users can see where their money has been since it left their wallets.
I saw a Bookcrossing book in a park a year or two ago and have always regretted not picking it up. Tracking my travelling former possessions, whether money or books, has always sounded like a delightful idea to me - reminding me of the big wide world and all the people in it who might, one day, handle the bill I spent at a coffeeshop or the book I “released” at the student lounge.
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