Writing a travel journal that captures your travel memories for a lifetime of enjoyment
Taking a vacation is usually a much anticipated and exciting prospect. You're off to visit a new place, or revisit an old, but favorite, destination. It's odd, but true, that most travelers, while spending considerable time, effort and money getting to that first day of vacation, few include writing a travel journal, detailing their adventures, in their plans. Anyone who's taken a vacation to their dream destination can tell you that those memories fade over time. The overall impressions stay with you, but the most enjoyable memories often consist of small events which might be easily forgotten in a few years. Writing a travel journal keeps those events fresh in your recall and can provide years of enjoyment.
We all usually keep family photo albums to mark our life events, kids growing up, weddings, graduations and the like. Just a glance at a photo of Mary's birthday or a backyard barbecue brings the memories of that day back clearly. However, when you're traveling, everything is new. It's hard to take it all in and record all of these new experiences with only a camera. It only makes sense that writing a travel journal enhances your experience and memories long after you've arrived back home.
Buying an inexpensive tape recorder makes it easy to write a travel journal, without investing much of your time while on vacation. Bring your recorder with you everywhere you go. As you're sightseeing, hang it from a cord around your neck. When you spot a little child, playing with her dog in front of that quaint bakery, record a few words that capture your sensory perceptions. What caught your attention? The child's long braids, fragrant smells from the bakery entrance, her sweet demeanor and the dog getting a bit of her cookie? It's the small events that add up when writing a travel journal, making it possible to vicariously relive your vacation in depth, far into the future.
Let's say you've just toured the Colosseum in Rome. You joined a group hosted by an independent tour guide, a fountain of information on the history and anecdotal lore. In fact, you'll learn so much, you might forget half of the knowledge you acquired within a week, unless you record brief notes and observations as you tour.
Writing a travel journal is somewhat akin to being a reporter. Take a few minutes each evening to transcribe your impressions in as much detail as possible. You don't even need complete sentences it's the bare bones flavor of the experience you're after.
Postcards are abundantly available and are valuable in jogging your memory when writing a travel journal. Use a paper clip to insert the postcards on the relevant pages of your transcribed notes. When you get back home, assemble your notes and postcards in your unique travel journal, fleshing out your notes.
Writing a travel journal is easy enough. You don't need to be a professional writer to create a travel album that allows you and future generations of kids and grandkids to see a bit of the world through your eyes during that moment in time. It will be a fascinating read!
Taking a vacation is usually a much anticipated and exciting prospect. You're off to visit a new place, or revisit an old, but favorite, destination. It's odd, but true, that most travelers, while spending considerable time, effort and money getting to that first day of vacation, few include writing a travel journal, detailing their adventures, in their plans. Anyone who's taken a vacation to their dream destination can tell you that those memories fade over time. The overall impressions stay with you, but the most enjoyable memories often consist of small events which might be easily forgotten in a few years. Writing a travel journal keeps those events fresh in your recall and can provide years of enjoyment.
We all usually keep family photo albums to mark our life events, kids growing up, weddings, graduations and the like. Just a glance at a photo of Mary's birthday or a backyard barbecue brings the memories of that day back clearly. However, when you're traveling, everything is new. It's hard to take it all in and record all of these new experiences with only a camera. It only makes sense that writing a travel journal enhances your experience and memories long after you've arrived back home.
Buying an inexpensive tape recorder makes it easy to write a travel journal, without investing much of your time while on vacation. Bring your recorder with you everywhere you go. As you're sightseeing, hang it from a cord around your neck. When you spot a little child, playing with her dog in front of that quaint bakery, record a few words that capture your sensory perceptions. What caught your attention? The child's long braids, fragrant smells from the bakery entrance, her sweet demeanor and the dog getting a bit of her cookie? It's the small events that add up when writing a travel journal, making it possible to vicariously relive your vacation in depth, far into the future.
Let's say you've just toured the Colosseum in Rome. You joined a group hosted by an independent tour guide, a fountain of information on the history and anecdotal lore. In fact, you'll learn so much, you might forget half of the knowledge you acquired within a week, unless you record brief notes and observations as you tour.
Writing a travel journal is somewhat akin to being a reporter. Take a few minutes each evening to transcribe your impressions in as much detail as possible. You don't even need complete sentences it's the bare bones flavor of the experience you're after.
Postcards are abundantly available and are valuable in jogging your memory when writing a travel journal. Use a paper clip to insert the postcards on the relevant pages of your transcribed notes. When you get back home, assemble your notes and postcards in your unique travel journal, fleshing out your notes.
Writing a travel journal is easy enough. You don't need to be a professional writer to create a travel album that allows you and future generations of kids and grandkids to see a bit of the world through your eyes during that moment in time. It will be a fascinating read!
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