Join The Fun

We want you to join the fun with the traveling munchies. If you receive a traveling munchie from a friend and want to upload the munchie's status. Send an e-mail with the munchie's identifier (Traveling Munchie #) and where you are. If you like you can include your name, some information about the place or the munchie, whatever you like and we will post it to the blog. We would really like to have a picture too.

Just send the info to travelingmunchies@gmail.com and we'll do the rest.

Or better yet, buy a munchie from your favorite snack machine and send it's on its way. Let us know about it and we'll assign it an official Traveling Munchie # and upload it to the blog.


Have fun!

Traveling Munchie #1

Today Nick and I started our new hobby. The traveling munchies. The idea is to get a snack out of a vending machine then send it on a trip. We'll track it's progress and post picture from all the destinations it visits before it is ultimately eaten. Here is the first ever traveling munchie.

We bought this package of Fig Newtons from a vending machine in Hartford CT. It then travelled to Tolland CT for a visit with the chickens at Horse Hill Farm.

Traveling Munchie #1 - just born


Traveling Munchie #1 - on the farm


Traveling Munchie #1 - in Newington


Traveling Munchie #1 - Visiting Jonathan in Southington


Traveling Munchie #1 - With Scott in Westchester, NY (First out of state Munchie!)


Traveling Munchie #1 - Little Fig in the Big Apple, Traveling with Jonathan to Times Square, NYC

My Favorite Machine

This is currently my favorite machine. It is the Blue Bunny ice cream vending machine. When you make your selection, the lid of a chest freezer opens and a robot arm with a vacuum hose attached moves over to the appopriate bin, sucks up the ice cream, then drops it down the chute.

Definitely a lot of fun. Here is a video of a different one that came out much better than the video I took on my mobile phone: YouTube Link

I Love Vending Machines

I love vending machines. I know the food is generally expensive and unhealthy, but I just love the experience of watching how it all works. It is a little microcosm all under your control. Just command it to be so and watch the machine serve your snacking needs!

Anybody else love them? It is like a little entertainment break during the day. Dinner and a show! Can't beat that.