Mudpuppy kids travel journal2/9/2024 ![]() I will be posting more in-depth about what my travel journals look like and what I like to include in future months. Below is a list of some of my other favorite travel journal items. This year I found a brand new journal that I love, and I have already filled it with fun things from those two trips. Since then I have tried to keep a journal (or notes) for all our trips. It expanded those experiences in my memory. (Like standing face to face with the Mona Lisa or next to Anne Frank's desk.) It helped me remember more. It helped me take mental snapshots of what it felt like to stand in certain places. It forced me to create a highlight reel of each day. Keeping a journal added something special to my trip. But I learned something on that trip that stuck with me. ![]() We have taken many, many much smaller trips since our epic Europe trip. I stuffed ticket stubs, postcards, receipts and other ephemera inside knowing that seeing them later, I would remember the paths I walked and things I saw. So using a small Mead memo pad (see pic below), I kept straightforward notes of what we did each day. I knew that I would want a record to help me remember the details. I knew just a couple days in that so much was happening each day, that if I didn't write it down, I would never remember what we did, where we went, what we saw. It was easily the BEST TRIP OF MY LIFE, but also the most exhausting. I think we spent about 75% of our time completely lost. It was a whirlwind trip full of adventure and chaos. Then a high-speed train to Paris, the Chunnel to London and home. Our trip started in Amsterdam, then moving on to Prague, then to Switzerland (Bern and the Alps) to visit historic castles once inhabited by the VonGraffenried family. In 2006, a year after Bryan and I got married, we went on a three week backpacking trip across Europe.
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