Travel journaling with Reverie

Traveling, it seems has become a favorite past time of most people. It can be a wildly enriching experience when you step out of your comfort zone to visit a wondrous new place. It exposes you to new cultures, cuisine, and unique experiences.

Each of these things is alluring on its own so if you want to remember everything that you did on a trip, maintaining a travel journal will not only help you pen down your thoughts and memories but enrich your travel as well.

Why keep a travel journal

A travel journal is a place where you can write about the places you have visited. It can be a collection of thoughts, memories, adventures and stories. It doesn’t matter who you’re with or where you are going, an online travel journal can accompany you anywhere.

1. To learn — Traveling is not as simple as just visiting a place for the sake of it, it’s about enriching your life. It’s about discovering yourself, learning about cultures, enhancing your tolerance for uncertainty and so much more. It can be an account of all the new experiences and adventures you had when you travelled to that beautiful European village. It’s not often that people get the chance to travel, so the travel journal will be your eternal source to revisit those precious times.
2. To relive your best moments — A journal is a place to record all the new things that you observed on your trip to a foreign land. The exotic food you tasted and the amazing people you met. By having all these recollections in a single place you can look back and relive these moments whenever you want.

So, all you need is a destination and your travel journal can finally begin!

How to write travel journals: 5 ideas to inspire you

1. To plan your trip — The best thing about a travel journal is you can begin writing even before the trip has started. Use your journal to start planning for the places you’d like to visit as your destination. It doesn’t even have to be a fancy place, it can be anything from a new restaurant you want to eat at, a new tourist spot in town or the local museum. Write down whatever is in your travel bucket list, so that you remember to visit those places whenever you get the chance
2. Write during the trip — it’s always easier to recollect memories when they are fresh in your brain, so try to write as much as you can while traveling; every day if you can. Your entries do not have to be long and over-written, but it should convey the emotion you’re feeling at a particular moment. You can describe in detail the different smells, sounds, and sights you come across in your travels. Make sure you add new entries before you go to bed, recall what you did that day, what you thought and how you felt.
3. Add pictures to your travel journal — As they say, a picture says a thousand words. Combining pictures with your first-hand experiences of a place you visited will be the ultimate narrative of your travels. It will make it all the easier for you to recreate these experiences at your own convenience and share them with your family and loved ones.
4. Make a travel guide — If anyone in your family or friends decide to travel to a place you’ve already been to, write about the various places you’d like them to visit or recommend things to do which you previously missed out on.
5. The people and the food — Everywhere you go, the most noticeable differences you see apart from the geography of the place is the people and the food. Write your own stories about the different kinds of people you met and the adventures you shared. You can also use your travel journal as a food journal too. Write about any foods you loved, dishes you hated and try to remember them. You might notice a big change in your taste palette once you reach home.