Travel diaries: Why you should keep a journal of your travels 32 Articles

by April Storme

At 10 o'clock yesterday I was crossing the border from Costa Rica into Nicaragua, alongside my sister and a bilingual guide who was eager to show us around his beautiful country. Eight short hours later we were returned to...read more

by Luisa Fernanda

Pictures are an incomplete account of a traveling experience. They will show a moment in time, they will capture the colors, the ambiance; they will remind you that you once were there. A travel journal allows the trav...read more

by S Kartini

Traveling on leisure makes money, even business trips if there is interest to be observant about the surrounding. You may be a few of the privilege few who gets to travel often or at least once a year for leisure. Regardle...read more

by Eliza Sininen

I'm sitting here with a photo album in my lap. It's my aunt's memories of Canada in the early 70s. The pages are full of smiling strange faces. Who's that, Auntie, in the yellow cap? "Oh... he was a guy from the bar... ...read more

by Amy Huang

They do say a picture says a thousand words. But the picture cannot say much about the moment just before and just after a photo has been taken; nor do they describe any emotions and feelings you may have felt on your tra...read more

by Erica Kitner

Do you remember that time that monkey stole your breakfast muffin straight out of your hands? Do you remember when you lost your passport and had to spend 8 hours grappling with the many unlogistical logistics of Indian Bu...read more

by Sangay Glass

Unlike photographs where you could snap all day and find that you never captured the essence of the place, your memories and emotions gain strength with time and the effort you placed in creating them. By trying to cram...read more

by Tammy L Mahan

I keep a travel journal for one reason. As a writer, I can gather many idea's while traveling good or bad experiences can be used to write travel articles and reviews. As a fiction writer, people and places are very in...read more

by M W

A travelogue is a compilation of exciting events experienced on a specific journey written down for later recollections. Every memory can be recorded and shared with friends not along on your travels, and every seemingly t...read more

by Colette Georgii

REASONS TO KEEP A TRAVEL JOURNAL There are a number of good reasons to keep a travel journal including having a record of your momentous trip, notes on the trip so that you can perhaps write about it later, daily expens...read more

by Ashley Halligan

Although our memories may be beautifully photographic, our minds lack the ability to extract those thousand words that are so often said to lay within the perimeters of such a photo, especially when our mind is stamped wit...read more

by Shauntrice Martin

So maybe it is a little less masculine than bringing back the head of a rare breed of bear you hunted. But wouldn't it be nice to look over your pictures of friends you met, fliers from parties, and maybe even some comment...read more

by Rachelle de Bretagne

Travel diaries: Why you should keep a journal of your travels Every day of your life opens up new opportunity, new horizons, and this is especially true when you are traveling through countries never experienced before,...read more

by Kjersti Wasiak

In my travels around the world I have almost always kept a journal. There are many reasons for keeping one. Some are more immediate reasons and others are for the near and far future. My number one reason for keeping ...read more

by Jacqueline O'Donnell

My first backpacking trip I kept a journal every day. I noted my impressions of what I saw, what the city smelt like, the colors of the leaves on the trees, the sounds on the street... minor details about a major event. ...read more

by Soleah

To everything there is a season, a time and place under the heavens....or so it goes. What shall be has already been and what is now shall be again, but what about perspective? When one ventures out into that which is ...read more

by Betsy Young

Student travel and why you should keep a travel diary. You, if you aren't already will become a famous or infamous character and who better to document your youthful travels than you. If in chronicling your adventures t...read more

by Ethel Smith

I think keeping a travel journal is great for a quite a few reasons. Firstly if you are the sort of person who may consider returning on holiday to somewhere you have been before, it's really useful to be able to read a...read more

by John Ledbury

Travel diaries: Why you should keep a journal of your travels. I live in a village, and one question often asked is; Do you remember who used to live there, or similar. Photographs and information about the village fif...read more

by Duane Radford

Travel Photo Tips Do you know and understand the essentials of taking quality, memorable photos of your vacation and how to work the photos into a CD slide show if you're shooting digital, or into a scrapbook if you're ...read more