8 . How to keep a travel journal
Are you looking for fresh travel journal writing ideas? Read on these tips to get some ideas for creating a journal you will cherish.
Just do it. A travel journal is not scholarly (学文精深的). 1 There are no rules, and no one is grading what you are write. The best way to get going is to get started.
Pay attention. Your journal doesn’t have to only be about where you go each day. 2 Did you meet someone new? Where and when? What did you talk about? Recording observations will make your travel journal colorful?
Try to write something every day. Make a habit of writing something every day or at least every other day. 3 If you let more time pass, it can be different to remember what you did three or four days ago, especially the brief impressions of those experiences. Your journal will be richer if you keep up with it.
4 If writing paragraphs doesn’t fit either you or your trip, try something else. You can make lists, such as your favorite restaurants for dinner or the best places to watch the sunset. Try sketching (素描) too and don’t be discouraged if you are not sure as an artist. Sometimes sketching is really the best way to record an experience that would be lost when described with text. As the saying goes, a picture is worth one thousand words.
Take the bad along with the good. For all the great travel experiences we enjoy, there are days when things go wrong. 5 Though they are not be highlight of a trip, they are part of your unique travel story and often are as much fun to tell about in the future as the ones that go as planned.
| A．Write at a comfortable place. |
| B．Use different ways to keep a journal. |
| C．Be sure that the size of the notebook is right for you. |
| D．Then you can catch your thoughts while they are fresh. |
| E．It is your experiences—written by you, and for yourself. |
| F．Write about these experiences too for they are just as memorable. |
| G．Stop for a moment, look around and ask yourself some questions. |
