5 Reasons Why You Must Make a Travel Journal
4. For networking and making connections
You can stick visiting cards of people you have met during your travels, or places that you have stayed in. Write down phone numbers or email addresses of new friends that you have made during your trips, and keep them as records. You never know when you might need to connect with them for something in life. Varied contacts can always come in handy.
5. For expanding your thinking and penning down your feelings
Write about what you are feeling or what’s going on in your head when you are travelling from one place to the other in a train or in a plane. Sit outside a monument, write the time of visit, and write down what’s happening around at that very minute. This is like your own personal kind of documentation, your own personal way of making history. Once you do this regularly, you will realize that you won’t just be writing, but will also be making doodles, sketches, random scribbles and a lot more.
Most importantly, making and maintaining a travel journal is a lot of fun. It gives you a new kind of high, and is a great habit to pursue all your life. It will act as a memoir for your kids and grandchildren to go through, and will be a very beautiful part of your life, locked and treasured in one place.
