A friend and I used to go on the shop hop -- one year we hit 54 shops in 4 days (I think we missed a couple of shops). We had a blast -- we bought at least a FQ at each shop. Now, the price of gas and fabric has slowed us down. I created pages for each shop, and we wrote down what we bought and what we liked or disliked about the shop. WE got the shop to stamp our pages too. The following year we only went to the shops we liked.