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Which is better, a travel journal or a weblog? Well I think the first thing one must consider is the reason for writing at all. Is your writing usually more personal or public? Do you normally write in a diary or for a magazine? Have you ever had work published before? Do you want to share this with everyone or a select few? All of this may dictate whether you prefer to write a travel journals or take a chance at blogging.

A travel journal is generally a more personalized and private form of writing style. Travel journals keep details of your travels for you to remember and are often actual words handwritten on paper in a book. People most often keep journals as a private accounting of their travel adventures and they are usually written by the writer for their own personal reflection or usage.

A weblog, or blog as they are more commonly referred to these days, is written online using a computer and keyboard. Blogs are websites and more like an online journal written in digital text than an actual book with paper pages. We may call it writing but blogging is actually typing and typed words are in fact different than handwritten words. Typed words impart less emotion and personality than handwriting samples. Blogs are designed for sharing information with the world and are normally more formal a writing style than a personal journal may be. Blogs can be syndicated in many languages and across the entire planet within minutes of posting and they make your travel experience available to the world in an instant.

A travel blog brings the trip to those who cannot make it personally but instead want to live vicariously through the traveler who has the talent to express the emotions and sense of a vacation in words or pictures. Blogs usually feature photos and videos which bring the reader even closer to the vacation and gives them the impression they have actually traveled along with the writer to some exotic location. Video blogs or vlogs may not even contain any writing at all and rely more upon the creators talents behind the camera to highlight the travel experience.

For me a blog makes better sense as a writing tool for travel writers. My travel writing is most often for the benefit of others and I enjoy sharing my experience and adventures with as many people as possible. My blog gives me the global reach my travel writing deserves and in my opinion is the better way to share your travels with a broader audience.

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