Travel Journal?

As I sit here, staring out the window at the ice-covered trees (and bushes, and cars, and old crusty snow...), I'm beginning to get my plans together for some of this year's upcoming trips. I've been using the Moleskine Travel Journal as a planner and journal over the last few years. I like its format and its size.

The funny thing is that I don't actually travel with it, preferring instead to sit with it once I get back home, and recording my memories.

In this day of social media, I find it often easier to just upload to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or Flickr and revisit my trips that way. But there's something about putting pen to paper that will always fascinate me. So, even if I don't write copiously, I still write.

I admire people who can keep a journal or a diary, and I always thought it would be easy enough to do while traveling. The problem is often that by the end of the day I am just too tired to write.

I've come across some travel blog entries recently that talk about travel journals. One that I particularly like was this one, on From Home to Roam. The author talks about the joy that comes later, after the trip, when she pulls one of her journals off the shelf and relives all the fun.

I think I'm going to try to journal on each trip this year - wish me luck!