![]() This brings me to the next important thing to remember when keeping a travel journal… This brochure helped me come to my senses and realize you don’t have to go anywhere all that exotic to have a good time exploring the world. The site of a vanished ghost town might not exactly be Barbados, but that doesn’t make it any less inspiring or not worthy of documenting. This well-timed irony of a tourist attraction is what made me realize travel doesn’t necessarily have to be somewhere exotic to be interesting or journal-worthy. To be bluntly honest, it’s not even a city. Or rather, there was a place known as Pithole City. Yes, really, there is a place named Pithole city. ![]() It just made me wonder, Who on earth am I to keep a travel journal? What would I even write in a travel journal if I wasn’t going anywhere exciting?Īnd then, while on one of our camping trips I had a revelation when I stumbled across this little gem of a brochure for a place called Historic Pithole City. Like Theodore Roosevelt is famous for saying, “Comparison is the thief of joy.”ĭon’t get me wrong – I definitely do appreciate the few trips we’ve made in recent years. If I actually do the math of how much I traveled in the past year, I think I covered more miles just by taking the kids to school every day and running errands. Considering we live in Pittsburgh, it’s safe to say we weren’t exactly jet-setting across the world – we barely left the turnpike! In contrast, we’ve been doing things like going camping and the occasional drive to Ohio and Philadelphia for family events. They tour Europe, they visit glaciers, they backpack & hike through canyons, they sip cocktails on the beaches of Mexico… Most people I know regularly go to all sorts of cool destinations. One of the biggest things that stopped me from starting travel journals in the past is that we weren’t really traveling anywhere all that exciting. #2: You Don’t Have to Go Somewhere Exotic to Enjoy a Travel Journal Now this “rule” is out of the way, let’s go to the next one – it might surprise you! You don’t even have to collect ephemera if it’s not something you enjoy. Don’t worry about writing detailed journal entries of the day if writing is not your thing. There’s no wrong way to keep a travel journal, and don’t worry about trying to make it look like the bazillion beautiful examples you might see online.ĭon’t feel like you have to make elaborate sketches if you can barely draw a stick figure. ![]() Your trips and adventures are unique to you – and so it only makes sense the way you want to document, record, or experience them would also be unique to you. The only thing that matters is it is something you enjoy doing. There are NO rules when it comes to journaling. I know the title of this blog post says “8 Rules of the Road”, but I assure that is only for alliterative purposes. Just trying to define what a travel journal is exactly can cause a lot of confusion! Fortunately, there really aren’t any rules for what your personal method for documenting a trip looks like. You might see pretty planners, you might see scrapbooks, you might see junk journals, art journals, sketchbooks, traveler’s notebooks, travel writing prompts, digital photo apps – and the list goes on. If you search for “travel journal” online – you’ll find all sorts of different things and examples. There Are No Rules for What a Travel Journal Is or Has to Be or How to Use It I know the hardest part of any type of new journal sometimes can be just getting started, so my hope is these 8 tips will help you get on the right path to decide what you want to do and what works best for you. Starting a travel journal isn’t much different from starting any other kind of journal, but I do think there are a couple of things you can do to make the whole process a LOT more fun and way less stressful. It’s May, summer vacation season is just a few weeks away and the travel bug is biting me hard as I think about different places I want to go – So today I thought it might be fun to talk about how to start a travel journal – even if you don’t have any immediate plans for adventure. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. This post may contain affiliate links, which means we may earn a commission if you make a purchase.
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