I do record places and events and even menu in a notebook during a day of travel. Sometimes this is completed at night. But I also have a tape recorder for impressions along the way and comments by tour guides. Plus I take photos and my wife has an excellent memory. So when we get home I can rely on all this for writing up the trip.
Ozarks Bill

didn't richardab blog live while in europe this last trip. i think he used typepad. you can post from a mobile phone...maybe a blackberry/sidekick/treo.

http://richardab.typepad.com/

i scribble on paper, but it's not the same as electronic formats. but it does lose the "artistic" feel of writing.

The Compaq/HP iPAQ is a Windows PC that fits in your pocket. You can buy a full-size keyboard for $30 or so.

The files can be downloaded to a host computer via USB, Bluetooth, 802.11, or CDPD. With the right software (and service provider) you can e-mail from anywhere. Some of the new versions also offer integrated cell phones, multiplying your connectivity options.

If you are a person who emails while you're on the road (like I do), you can cc yourself on the letters/stories you're sending friends and family.

I bought a very nice and cute journal at a stationery shop right outside the Pantheon in Rome a few years ago. It's small with heavy nice paper and covers and unlined.

I jot and sketch whatever inspires me in it. I date every entry, so I'll remember it.

I took it to Japan last year, and when I didn't feel like writing or sketching anything in it, I have it stamped by temples and shrines. I discovered many temples and shrines throughout Japan have very nice seals of their places that are used to stamp the "passports" of pilgrims. The deep red enlivens the pages of my journal. In Nara, I even had a monk caligraphied on a page in my journal.

JC