This week I've finally gotten around to finishing my travel journal from our trip to the US last year! I had done the journalling part of it, but me being me, I wasn't going to be happy with it until it was thoroughly decorated and prettied up!
So while I am not yet finished (because I did 26 pages of writing for our 21 day trip), I have decorated 15 of those pages!
I really like the idea of journalling in general, but I think keeping a travel journal is something that everyone who travels should do in some form. It's just way too easy to forget the little details; places you ate at, random things you saw that made you smile, or those that made you say "what the!?".
Each time I've been overseas I've at least written down what happened each day - but last year was the first time I tried to do a dedicated journal. The problem with that was that we were so busy, that I barely had time to write in it. I found myself playing catch up with my writing and I remember writing about 9 days worth of happenings in one night.
I like to think next year when we travel again, that I'll be better at it, but despite my best organising efforts, I probably won't.
And so on the note of journalling, I will be making a concerted effort to blog at least once a week for the next 52 weeks! So that by the time I travel overseas next, I will in theory be way better at writing something (even if it's a little something!), every day!
So this is actually a two part challenge to myself. Part one involves the amount of blogging, and part two involves the subject matter.
I will AIM for a post every day/second day, but I will COMMIT to a post at least once a week. This is because I know from experience that life happens to the best of us (and aren't we glad it does!), and a commitment to blogging every day without any give in it, is only going to end up being a broken commitment. But to commit to a minimum and allow for extras, should mean I end up succeeding!
The second part of my personal challenge is the subject matter of my posts. I have a list (following the photos in this post), and I will blog about whatever is next on my list! My list of 52 blog post titles include things that will be a challenge but that's what it's all about!
Now for the photos of my travel journal so far:
So while I am not yet finished (because I did 26 pages of writing for our 21 day trip), I have decorated 15 of those pages!
I really like the idea of journalling in general, but I think keeping a travel journal is something that everyone who travels should do in some form. It's just way too easy to forget the little details; places you ate at, random things you saw that made you smile, or those that made you say "what the!?".
Each time I've been overseas I've at least written down what happened each day - but last year was the first time I tried to do a dedicated journal. The problem with that was that we were so busy, that I barely had time to write in it. I found myself playing catch up with my writing and I remember writing about 9 days worth of happenings in one night.
I like to think next year when we travel again, that I'll be better at it, but despite my best organising efforts, I probably won't.
And so on the note of journalling, I will be making a concerted effort to blog at least once a week for the next 52 weeks! So that by the time I travel overseas next, I will in theory be way better at writing something (even if it's a little something!), every day!
So this is actually a two part challenge to myself. Part one involves the amount of blogging, and part two involves the subject matter.
I will AIM for a post every day/second day, but I will COMMIT to a post at least once a week. This is because I know from experience that life happens to the best of us (and aren't we glad it does!), and a commitment to blogging every day without any give in it, is only going to end up being a broken commitment. But to commit to a minimum and allow for extras, should mean I end up succeeding!
The second part of my personal challenge is the subject matter of my posts. I have a list (following the photos in this post), and I will blog about whatever is next on my list! My list of 52 blog post titles include things that will be a challenge but that's what it's all about!
Now for the photos of my travel journal so far:
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| Front cover was done before we left! |
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| Page 1 |
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| Pages 2 and 3 |
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| Pages 4 and 5 |
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| Pages 6 and 7 - I loved seeing all the monuments in Washington! |
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| Pages 8 and 9 - all about shopping at the Mall of America! |
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| Pages 10 and 11 |
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| Pages 12 and 13 - Baseball! |
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| Pages 14 and 15 - remembering how we got lost driving around downtown. |
BLOG POSTS TO COME
- GOOD NEWS
- WHERE I'M MEANT TO BE
- A SONG
- IT REMINDS ME OF
- THE BEST TIME OF DAY
- MY PERSONAL STYLE
- WHY NOT?
- SOMETHING TO SAY
- IT'S MAGIC
- DOODLES
- MAKE A COLLAGE
- FREEBIES!
- AN OLD PHOTO
- OBSESSED WITH
- INSTINCT
- SUPERSTITION
- WHAT CAUGHT MY EYE TODAY
- I WONDER
- TUTORIAL
- WHAT'S NEXT
- A WORK IN PROGRESS
- ART JOURNAL
- TRAVELLING
- SKETCHBOOKS
- STORY OUT OF SONG LYRICS
- WILD BEAUTY
- LIVE OUT LOUD
- SPACE TRAVEL
- UNEXPECTED KINDNESS
- THE CHILD I USED TO BE
- SLIDING DOORS AND PARALLEL UNIVERSES
- TWENTY THINGS I WANT TO LEARN ABOUT
- A SIMPLE PLEASURE
- WHAT MOTIVATES ME?
- TEN WORDS THAT DESCRIBE TODAY
- ZENTANGLES
- EXPLORE
- ON THE ROAD
- 5 BOOKS I'VE READ THAT I LOVE AND WHY
- THINK ABOUT IT
- THE EVERYDAY STUFF
- DRAWING A LINE
- FAVOURITE SKETCHES
- LYRICS THAT TALK TO YOU
- FAVOURITE ARTIST
- INSPIRATION EVERYWHERE
- BEING BRAVE
- I DON'T GET IT
- SAY NO
- AN UNTRADITIONAL APPROACH
- THE ROAD LESS TRAVELLED
- WHO WOULD YOU WANT TO MEET?
* I would like to add that quite a few of these blog inspiration ideas come from the list compiled by Cynthia Lourden in a year of blogging and journalling ideas. Great list, and great idea!
Love the journal and I like the idea of the list. a blog post is a good way to document travel...just have to keep up with it.. :o)
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Exactly! Being too busy to write it down is a good travel problem though!
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