A trip shouldn’t end when you return home.
A friend of ours once said “I spent $100,000 on overseas travel and I don’t remember $80,000 of it!”
It is for this reason that I began a journal on our first caravanning trip and have continued to do so. That journal becomes a private blog as we travel for family and friends to know where we are. The photos become a DVD when we get home, not for boring our friends to death but to cheer us up on a cold night.
Random snippets from these blogs end up here on Itchingforhitching.com to be shared with fellow bloggers and armchair travellers.
Another angle is the online ordered coffee table style of books but I find that I can never reduce my photos enough to produce a reasonably priced book. When the resulting book for a three or four month trip costs more than the trip itself then you’ve got to ask yourself “Is it worth it?”
Whichever method that you choose, for heavens’ sake don’t trust those precious memories to your head. Back them up to a computer …or three.
itchingforhitching 
Good advice – I wish I’d kept journals of all my travels when I was younger.
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Oh yes, I kept a journal when I spent a year in New Zealand when I was 19. It makes great reading now! Sadly I only have boxes and boxes of photos for the years of adventures until I retired
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In my early twenties I travelled around a big chunk of the USA on Greyhound busses. I only have a series of mental snapshots in my head now, but recently I came across a letter I’d sent to my mother. There were several descriptions of things I’d seen and done that I’d forgotten, but they all came back as I read.
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Thank you for sharing your travel experiences. Your posts are interesting, informative and often hilariously funny. They are a bright spot in my day.
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Thank you. I’m thoroughly enjoying your cooking!
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When we travel my blog is my journal and the family have to read that if they want to know where we are etc. Up until the last trip I made a book after each holiday but you’re right they’re expensive. I wait until they have a 50% discount offer but that doesn’t make the postage cheaper which is why the last holiday didn’t become a book. I enjoy reading your posts.
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Thanks so much. Yes the books are great but we see so much when ambling about in the caravan for months that one could almost dedicate a book for each week.
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I find it difficult to decide which photos to use in the books, always want to include far more than I can but as a little compensation I do a collage at the end and manage to sneak a few more in that way.
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Yes. I’m so glad to have the internet to help me keep my travel diary. But in some ways I prefer the pre-techie days of scrapbooks, stuffed with old admission tickets, postcards and haphazard contributions from the children. But all of these are good on a winter’s evening.
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Oh yes, we have an old suitcase each filled with treasured memories like bus tickets and menus. But oh o good to look back on.
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Oh for digital cameras 50 years ago! My archive would be enormous!
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Adventure before Dementia…great advise.
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We see many a caravan with that slogan on the back and good on’em too.
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After watching my dad die of dementia I hold that statement in very high regard.
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I lost an Aunt in the same manner. Such a cruel illness to both the sufferer and their loved ones.
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