Despite not being able to travel very much during the pandemic, all I could think about was travelling. I thought about how much I missed listening to new languages on the train, remembering the smells of an international marketplace. I thought about the beautiful works of art I saw in museums. And wished I could transport myself back in time and place. For as long as I have been travelling, I have been making my own little travel journals. These always helped in my recollection of all the treasured memories I hold so dearly.
Whenever someone else would come back from a trip, I would ask them all these questions about their travels. Hoping to re-live a part of it with them. And what I was always so astounded by was how easily we all could forget things. At the moment, that bowl of ramen is the best thing you’ve ever eaten!. But when you return home, sometimes it can be hard to separate that delicious meal from all the others you had. So, I set out to finally put pen to paper (or, more accurately, mouse to computer) and create The Creative Adventurer Retro Travel Journal.
The Creative Adventurer Retro Travel Journal
The Creative Adventurer Retro Travel Journal is an extraordinary and unique journal to record plans, capture memories, and bottle those precious once-in-a-lifetime vacations so you never forget a moment.
Prompt Journaling
Many travel journals are blank, but this one inspires and prompts you with fun and creative questions. This will help you capture even the smallest moments from your adventures. Remember your favourite foods, awe-inspiring sights, beautiful streets, and other emotional memories that make travel so fulfilling.
The Creative Adventurer Retro Travel Journal also has pages to let you sketch the things you see and paste in paper mementos, like metro tickets, receipts, business cards, and other ephemera. PLUS, there are lots of blank lined pages to record your notes.
The Creative Adventurer Retro Travel Journal also includes a personalized pre-travel checklist, customizable foreign words/phrases chart to help you speak the local language, and a day-by-day scheduler to help plan your trip. These day pages allow you to record the date, location, schedule, weather, and to-do lists. You can even note how your day actually went compared to what you originally planned. This is consistently my favourite part as things always go wrong, but it’s all about how you adapt and have fun on your travels!
The Creative Adventurer Retro Travel Journal includes:
- 166 pages to record all your plans and adventures on beautiful retro designs
- Compact journal measures 6” wide x 9” high, the perfect size to throw into your carry-on bag!
- Creative questions and prompts that will help you capture your favourite moments in great detail
- Room to record up to four trips/vacations. Take them all in one year or slowly over time. It is an excellent keepsake to treasure for ages
You can buy The Creative Adventurer Retro Travel Journal on Amazon in the US | UK | Canada | Australia
How To Use the Travel Journal
The Creative Adventurer Travel Journal is super easy to use as it prompts you along the way to insert pre-travel information and interesting fact-finding to inspired some research! Then during your travels, it will advise you to record all sorts of different memories and moments along the way you want to keep forever!
But to really fill out the journal and make it as exciting and full of treasures as possible, pick up all sorts of things along the way. Grab fun paper coasters with cool designs or awesome travel maps of places you’re visiting. Take pictures on your Instax camera and paste them into the journal. Business cards and itemized receipts also make for great additions. I love bringing a few rolls of washi tape with me to help decorate the pages. Washi tape weighs almost nothing, so that it won’t take up much room in your bag. If you’ve always seen cute postcards but never really had the inkling to mail anything, these also make great additions to the book! Ticket stubs and museum admissions stickers are lovely to glue in there anytime you have one! I love visiting stationery stores along my way to pick up some unique stickers too! Honestly, anything that catches your fancy or you feel like you want to remember is worth plucking up and placing into your journal.
If you pick up a copy, please please share it with me! Follow me on Instagram and tag @thecreativeadventurer to share all your beautiful journeys with the rest of the Creative Adventurers!
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