Rediscovering Travels of my Past
By Carol Brown
@blitzfrick (2890)
United States
April 24, 2016 3:23pm CST
April 24, 2016
Every now and then I decide to lighten my load. This weekend I started by culling books and ended up taking 20 pounds of books to Powell's Bookstore to sell. I got $13, treated myself to food-cart dinner and headed home.
Today in the load-lightening process, I came across some travel journals I kept from trips across the American southwest with an ex-boyfriend. This discovery has inspired me to set up a blog and publish them online. I haven't started the blog yet and will post a link later when I have something to show.
Do you keep a journal when you travel?
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@blitzfrick (2890)
• United States
24 Apr 16
It's never too late to start. I only journal on my travels, and then not every time. These trips were taken between 1998 and 2006, so they're somewhat recent. I don't think I kept travel journals before these.
For years, I did write journals of my daily struggles, sort of like keeping a diary, but I eventually destroyed all those writings. Probably a good thing, too. It was like letting go of old troubles.
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@jaboUK (64346)
• United Kingdom
24 Apr 16
@blitzfrick That's a very wise thing that you said there - letting go of old troubles. If they were unhappy times there's no point in remembering them.
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@blitzfrick (2890)
• United States
25 Apr 16
@jaboUK Absolutely. I felt much lighter when I got rid of them.
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@JamesHxstatic (29410)
• Eugene, Oregon
24 Apr 16
I never have been successful at journals, so gave up. Think about Blog Job if you set one up. A number of people from this and other sites we used to know write there.
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@blitzfrick (2890)
• United States
25 Apr 16
I'm not sure that I'd have kept journals of these trips if I'd been driving. As it was I had time and opportunity. I recently took a short trip to your part of the world and wrote not a scratch.
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@PainsOnSlate (21845)
• Canada
26 Apr 16
I do keep a travel diary. I often forget to write in it but I hit the high spots.
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