Why you should keep a travel diary for your next adventure
If you're someone who loves to travel, and if you love looking back over your memories of your trips, a travel journal, or travel diary, is an important travel essential. Your travel journal, or travel diary, is an important place for you to keep a daily log, keep pictures, mementos, and any information you want to remember. You can then look back over all your adventures for years to come, and remember and reflect on all the exciting things you did on your travels. Don't let social media be the only place you keep your memories.
What is a travel journal or diary?
A travel journal, or travel diary, is a deeply personal record of your journeys. You can write in your memories, feelings, and anything you want to remember or reflect upon. You can keep any special photos and mementos and stick them into your travel journal or diary. It is a private, unfiltered place for you to keep your own special and deeply personal memories. With a travel journal, you can relive the small moments that otherwise could be forgotten. A journal or diary helps you make sure you never forget details like the tiny cafe in Paris, or the feeling of standing under a waterfall in Bali.
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Why keep a trip diary for your travels?
1) Create a special Keepsake:
When you return home, your travel journal becomes a special memento. You can look back over and relive all the exciting things you did, and how you felt. You can see your photos and mementos and be transported back to the time in your memory. Your travel journal can be shared with special people in your life, like your partner or children, who can also experience the amazement that you did on your trip.
2) Reflect and process:
Journaling is a wonderful way to process your emotions and reflect on your experiences. Writing in a travel journal about your trip is a great way to do this. You can write about the good times and the hard times on your travels. Reflect on how amazing it is to see the collosseum, as well as how difficult it was to experience culture shock in a new country.
3) Remember details that could otherwise be forgotten:
At the end of each day, keep a record of your journey and everything you experienced. Remember the names of important people and places, write down everything you did and places you traveled to. Remember the names of people you met, tours you take, places you stop, and things you bought. These details can otherwise be forgotten, especially in years to come, so keep them recorded in your journal forever.
4) Keep special mementos:
Keep items such as your photos, tickets, receipts, brochures and anything else that will help you remember your trip. Keep them together as special mementos and bring the story of your trip truly to life.
Ideas for what to include in your travel journal or diary:
Here are a few ideas of what to write in your travel journal:
- Daily log with everything you did
- A map of places you have been. You can colour in each country after you visit it.
- A copy of your itinerary and you can write all over it with memories
- Photos
- Mementos such as tickets, receipts and brochures
- Your feelings
- A list of places you traveled
- People you met
Travel Journals from Write and Craft:
Check out our beautiful travel journals here. Within each travel journal you will find space for your daily journalling, as well as a whole lot of useful and fun pages, including:
- World maps and maps of each continent
- Currency exchanges
- Time zones
- Budget and expenses pages
- Itinerary
- Flights
- Spaces for wifi passwords, cafes, dining options, and more
- Notes
Check them out here.
I truly love creative journaling and writing. The art of putting pen to paper is something that brings me so much joy. So when I travel, I love to keep a trip diary or travel journal and write in it as often as I can. I still have some travel journals from trips I went on in my teenage years and I love looking back over these. It's something special that I keep alongside my photo books and photo albums.
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- Rachel