Keeping travel journals
I guess I "inherited" this from my dad who was keeping a very precise travel journal for each one of his journeys. To me it serves to major purposes:- I jot down facts, views, atmospheres right there...
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Thanks, makai!Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaah I am a matches/matchbook collector myself and I am very often very straightforward asking people if they have matchbooks: and all of a sudden they come up with a...
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The only thing i collect on my trips is my travel journal! I try to write every day, including where I've eaten (if memorable, positive or negative), my hotel or B&B (plus address and comments),...
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I have always regretted not keeping a travel journal. Over the years I collected tickets, maps and receipts. I used to make fun of my sister because she kept a diary. No matter how tired we were,...
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I had a fabulous journal for my last trip to London and Paris..names, places, addresses...yadda yadda...well, when I got to London, guess where my journal was? Yup, at home on my desk. I managed to...
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I never kept a travel journal and never regretted not doing it.I admire the people that have so much energy and perseverance and that actually enjoy doing it.My Compliments Y'ALL..
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Good point, Roma!I have had numerous discussions with people about (not)/taking pictures or (not)/writing journals. Those opposing always stated that if they did not remember a thing it was not really...
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Quote:Those opposing always stated that if they did not remember a thing it was not really worthwhile remembering!Honestly, I think that is short sighted. Hasn't everyone had the experience of being...
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I am so glad I started writing my travel experiences in little note pads. I do it almost every evening to wind down after a day touring about, it is relaxing to me. I love reading them a year or so or...
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Tini,I dont write travel journal is true, but I take tons of pictures and many are of the same places that I visit all the time, but taken in different periods. For example,the first time that I took...
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I do the same, I love poring over my old journals and remembering some fun incidents that I may have forgotten. In recent years, I transfer part of that journal to the web each...
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Every trip I vow to be a better diarist... every year the first days are well documented and the end it's a pitiful entry indeed. But this year in Paris I VOW to be a good recorder of food, fun, wine...
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Good topic! I have always kept travel notebooks to jot everything down. There is also a section in the back dedicated to photo descriptions (numbers pre-written to make it more efficient at the time)....
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Thanks batraveler. I just came back after two weeks and a pretty pathetic journal. I tried, but I plan to add most your tips as it is all clear in my mind. I was very good for the first two days. I...
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Excuse my ignorance but where did you just come back from?Perhaps my journalling methods sound like overkill but I so appreciate it later on. But then I am a tracker - I write everything down!! You...
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I'm back from two weeks in Provence and Paris. I got back just a few hours ago and I can't sleep. My first time in Provence and all those beautiful little towns will become blurry if I don't jot down...
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I only did a travel journal once, for a trip to Italy. And I took the advice of some posters at TOP (this was way back) and took along a small set of scissors and a glue stick. So I put postcards,...
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I always bring a journal to write in about my daily adventures. I also bring a small 4x6" spiral notebook that I keep in my purse that has the most important information. For my next trip (Italy in...
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Well, that's what I have actually decided to do for my next trip. I will buy a Pocket PC and just keep my journal there. I am all for cutting down on paper and having to carry even one more sheet of...
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ChinaCatMaybe you can take a small PDA and type your journal directly into that and continue with a paper one into which you can glue stuff? Voila - no handwriting!
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