Any epic journey or unforgettable adventure deserves a well-loved travel journal, doesn’t it?
Following the trip, you can share your travel journal with family and friends and revisit the destination again and again. Unfortunately, not all travelers keep up their travel journal while they’re on-the-road.
Here are a few smart tips for keeping a travel journal:
1. Buy a travel-friendly journal
Think about the destination, its climate and weather and your itinerary. For example, if you’re going to a wet, humid place, then ensure you take along a travel journal with waterproof cover and tougher exterior. If weight matters, like on a long mountain trek, you’ll want a lighter, compact travel journal.
2. Gather your thoughts and take time out to write
Set regular times (daily, weekly) to gather your thoughts and update your travel journal. An excellent time to write in your travel journal is when you’re writing and sending postcards. Take excerpts from your postcards and record them in your travel journal.
3. Keep your mementos
From rail tickets to museum exhibition stubs, keep as many travel mementos as possible. Later, you can add them to your travel journal for variety, color and sentimentality.
4. Take a page from scrapbookers
Ask any scrapbooking friends how they do it and you’ll learn a lot. The art of scrapbooking can inspire you with its creativity and design sense.
5. Go online – write your own travel blog
Whether you write on a laptop or frequent cybercafés, you can create your own travel blog on-the-road. Blog platforms like Blogger are easy-to-learn, accessible and affordable. Taking and uploading quality digital photos can instantly share your latest destination with friends and family online.
Photo of travel journal cover by Chamko Rani
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Sonya is a freelance writer and blogger who writes about travel and green living. She has traveled, lived and written all over Europe, North America and South America.
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