Ozarksbill

Oh yes, I do take notes each day which I edit later. Otherwise I would forget details. But also I have these to help: pictures with cameras, brochures & postcards, audio taping guides with my comments, plus a wife with a good memory. When home I type up a trip journal and sometimes create a scrapbook. Problem in the future: what to do with this stuff when we downsize!

Ozarksbill

Amergerman

Moleskine now makes a soft covered pink unruled notebook and I have been using them since I found the product which is 11cm x 19.5 cm and less than 0.5 cm thick. I buy the unruled notebook and sketch and journal as I go. I write the journal entries from front-to-back and keep a list of interesting articles and websites and/or book recommendations in the back-to-front manner. Better yet, these Moleskines fit into a small-sized handbag.

TravelinSteph

In the past I have not done a Journal as I am a professional photographer and I am more caught up in catching the moment on my camera. BUT I have a friend who does journal and she includes things like places she ate and if she liked them or not... as well as the cost of it. She describes the food and the atmosphere. She Does the same for hotels and B&B's as well as sights/museums. Its actually really helpful for her friends becuse when we say we are going somewhere she just pulls out her book from that location and can tell us what was worth going to and what was not so interesting. Or "You just HAVE to eat at this place!!!"

I think that on our next trip I will keep some kind of journal and maybe try to photograph what I am seeing and make a book out of it... like a blurb book!

wotuno

Four weeks ago we returned from an around trip taking 4 months. It was absolutely fabulous. I kept a journal and at the beginning it was easy but we had a car for 46 days which we picked up in Nice and returned in Paris so we were travelling mostly staying in a different place each night (B & B's)so it was hard to keep it up and by the time we got home after travelling from the Greek Islands to Hawaii I had missed so many days and am now trying to fill in the blanks using our photos of which we have nearly 4000 and 10 hours of video. I love to go back over other trips we have had. I saw on this site that someone had a tape recorder/dictaphone and I really think this would be great as they are small and I could record while I am walking or we are in the car or wherever we are. I agree a lot of times we are too tired to start writing at night and so miss that day. I will definitely take a dictaphone next time

jpie

Yeah journaling is an interesting topic-part of it is practical-just cool places you visit and where you want to go next. But I also think there is an expressive side-here is an article that I thought was interesting and had some good ideas:

http://preview.tinyurl.com/3fsbvy

bettyk

wotuno, I loved the convenience of using a handheld digital recorder. It's small enough to slip inside your bag and you can just grab it whenever you need to. When I had to write everything down, I'd sometimes go several days without doing so because I'd be so tired in the evening or be distracted with laundry, etc.

ozlindy

I found my small laptop a wonderful way to both record our trip & keep friends & family up to date each day with our travels with a blog I set up.Each evening I spent a little time adding the days excitement after my husband had gone to sleep,so everything was still fresh in my mind.
When we got home I bought a spiral notebook and printed off each days adventures from the blog and pasted photos/brochures etc beside each page.This way it was a convenient way to show people our trip who hadn't read the blog.Also it's fun for us to relive the fabulous time we had

MauiMaui

I always keep a travel journal with me and keep very detailed information as well. Like how much the exchange rate was, what it cost, etc. It is fun to go back and read what you did! I write in it every evening so I won't forget what I did for the day. I also take small pocket size travel books and write in them the date and time of places I went.

flygirl

I keep a blog too, mostly photos but also some text. I don't get a chance to add to it until I get home however and it's usually culled from the emails.