How to Create a Travel Journal Kit
How to Create a Travel Journal Kit Step #1: Choose the Best Travel Journal for Your Trip Step #2: Choose Your Pens Once you’ve chosen your travel journal, you need pens. #3: Select Your Embellishments Ok, you don’t need embellishments but they sure do make journaling a lot more fun! #4: Don’t Forget Your Carrying Case! I fell in love with pencil cases when I lived in Germany as a high school student. I’ve carried a pencil case full of pens ever since. In fact, I still use a gold metal pencil case that I bought when I was in […]
How to Find the Best Travel Journal for Your Next Trip
Traveling soon? Yay! I’m so excited for you! No matter where in the world you’re going, a travel journal is one of the most important things to bring with you on your trip. Journaling provides a wonderful way to document everything about your travels that you don’t want to forget (and believe me, it’s so […]
This Year’s Must-Have Travel Journal
Heading off on vacation, a cruise, road trip, service trip or study abroad soon? Don’t forget your travel journal! I keep a journal every time I travel. I’ve done so since I was a teenager. I love keeping track of little notes, lists, and details about my trip, as well as my thoughts, impressions, […]
Travel 30 Years Ago vs Today
I recently saw a Facebook meme that outlined all of the ways that young people today have it soooo easy. As I’m currently packing for a trip to Germany, the country where I first lived abroad as a teen, I chuckled at the meme because I’d just been thinking about how easy I have it […]
How Travel Gives You Insight You Can Actually Use
After decades of traveling several times a year, for both work and fun, I decided to change things up and do what makes me very uncomfortable: stay put for several months before traveling again. Now that I’m not coming and going from my home base every few weeks, I’ve been taking a cold hard look […]
How to Make a Fun and Easy Postcard Travel Journal
Why I Love Postcard Travel Journals How to Make a Postcard Journal Here’s what I do. Each day I buy a postcard that represents where I am or what I’m doing that day. I use an extra postcard to create a cover. (That purple one below? It’s part of a set I bought when I […]
