Mixed media travel journal

Remember this journal?

It turned out to be my right hand man for memory keeping

along the way - there were days that

I couldn't access the internet nor scrap sooooo

its amazing how fast one forgets things.

This is the Tim Holtz journal and I am rather annoyed

because the little band that held it together

broke - and I wasn't even using it as I kept the journal

open at all times in order to jot things down.

 I was going really neat with the penmanship at the end of day

and that presented two problems.

1. Memory again. Lots of things were forgotten.

2. It was hard to find things written really neatly on the misted background.

 After we made a Walmart run I snuck a couple of sharpies

in the mix and they helped alot - I kept a couple

inside the open book so I could jot random things down.

It sort of helped with the memory.

There was always a case of either too much information or

the big one - not enough information.

 I added tickets, receipts and other ephemera along the way

but basically I had the book all tricked out before we left.

I also started making notes in shorthand - things I wanted to remember

later that other people didn't really need to know

or when I was whining. 

So if you can translate it - keep it to yourself...

please :)

It did really help when it came time to scrap- especially

names of places, i.e., cities, rivers, national parks and forests

we flew through that I was able to

take driveby pictures of.

I even have some empty pages remaining.

Gasp.

I highly recommend using one - and setting it up prior to leaving.

One of the things I learned from traveling/camping

is that its not always conducive to anything creative

or doing anything at all either at the end of the day

or beginning - your either setting up or tearing down

and then moving on.

And all internets and wifis are not created equal.