Who scrapbooks & journals their trips?

[wheel interested]

Originally Posted by TCHURCH

Hi,

We journal our trips and have designed a travel journal.

Check it out at http:/etsy.com/shop/CabanaArts (my wife's shop)

I know you will like the design!

Thanks,
Tony

LOVE THE ALBUMS! Thanks for the link to the shop.

[Alumaholic]

My wife has been journaling since 1996 when we took our first great adventure in an Airstream upon my retirement from the Marines.
We love reading about where we've been, what we saw, and who we met along the way.
It is also a ready reference to settle disagreements about who, what, where, and when.

[Gene]

Gene, you may find yourself becoming more digital than you think. I now have all our photos on my new iPad2. I don't have to print them anymore and that is great.

I am attached at the hip to my Mac and got the iPad for a newspaper subscription, but it does a lot of other things too, such as providing photo storage. I use the Mac laptop and the iPad to research campgrounds ( rv park reviews - Google Search ), find restaurants and how to get to places. It is also useful in paying bills online on long trips.

After the first year or two, I started to share our trips here. It serves many purposes—helps others who plan to make similar trips, I get suggestions of places to go from other Forum members and it helps me remember where we've been and I can look at the threads later. And when we are too old to travel, we can go back and find the threads and see where we went.

You may find a computer is smaller and lighter than carrying a lot of paper. We have a lot of paper anyway—tour books, maps, brochures, etc., but a paper journal is too much.

Gene (also)

[Safari Streamer]

I have scrapbooked a few of our big trips (and one more trip waiting to be done). I have journaled every trip since we bought our '99 AS in "99. We now have over 200 trips. I try to only use 1 page/trip (we do lots of weekend rallies) and just track place, distance, price, site # - good or bad,and our daily activities. It is nice to look back to reference if you are going to that place again. Many happy memories.

[Skater]

My wife scrapbooks. She's currently working on the wedding scrapbook, for our wedding that was about a year and a half ago. She's trying to catch up this winter. Camping is included in scrapbooks as appropriate; for example our recent trip to Disney in the camper will certainly have several pages devoted to getting there, our site at Fort Wilderness, and getting home again.

[TCHURCH]

Hi,

We too love to journal our trips in our Sport 22 "Sylvester". We used an off the shelf smash book type journal then decided to come up with our own custom one. My wife is an avid scrapbooker and has a business selling the overflow from her work. You can check out the airstream travel journal at https://etsy.com/shop/CabanaArts.

Tried to attach a photo...go to the site to see them...

Happy travels,
Tony

[NWGreyhound]

We've been RVing since the early 1970s and have had in that time five trailers and two sailboats while raising two sons. We now have a 2010 25'FC which we love.
I have always kept a daily journal with the following information:

• DATE(S) OF TRIP
• DESTINATION
• MILEAGE TOWED
• NIGHTS SLEPT IN AT DESTINATION
• WEATHER
• TRAILER MAINT NOTES
• GENERAL NOTES ABOUT THE TRIP SUCH AS WHO WAS WITH US, WHAT WE SAW AND DID, MEALS EVENTS etc.

My journals now fill three books and contain commentary on a large part of our lives. We've wintered in Arizona the past five years and traveled a lot so our rigs, while not full timers, do get a lot of use.
Lou

[Fly at Night]

Many journal on this forum under "On the Road" including yours truly (Welcome to the Breakfast Show).

I scrapbook, but they are always for someone else. My recent was for a friend who lost her husband.