If you love to travel as I do (obviously haha), then chances are you have a way to document the memories from your trips. If you're looking for a way to do so, let me recommend a travel journal. Every person journals differently. If you look through Pinterest for inspiration, you'll see pages filled with beautiful drawings. My travel journal isn't like that. I can barely draw a stick figure (no really. They always end up wonky with uneven arms and legs). So as much as I would love to be able to draw exactly what I see and experience when traveling, I can't. But that hasn't stopped me from filling the pages of my journal until the spine seems like it's going to give up and just explode. If you need some inspiration for what to include in your travel journal (especially if you can't draw), then you've come to the right place. Not to toot my own horn, but I like to think my travel journal is pretty awesome... Okay.. So maybe I'm tooting my own horn a little... Anyway, let's get to the inspiration!! Plane, Bus orTrain Tickets A great memento of the route you took to get to all the different places you visit! I use tape runners to keep them in place. Postcards Postcards are super cheap to buy, available pretty much anywhere in the world and are a great depiction of the place you're visiting. I mean, they are meant to send home to your family and friends to make them jealous... I mean... let them know you're thinking of them and want to share the view! I use tape runners to keep them in place. Stickers I like to include stickers from the places I visit in my journal. If I go to a restaurant or bakery I really like and they have a sticker, I definitely get one. Coffee Sleeves When I travel I always make it a goal to stop at a local coffee shop. Some of the best coffee I've ever had has come from these little hole in the wall places. If the coffee I get comes with a cardboard sleeve on the cup that has their logo or the name of the shop, I keep it to include in my journal. I use washi tape to hold them in place. Business Cards When I go into little shops, bakeries, etc I tend to grab business cards. It's a great (and free!) memento to add to my journal. I mean, if I ever want to go back, I have the address right there in my notes! Pictures Makes sense right? Include pictures of your favorite parts of your day. See a cool statue? Snap a picture and put it in your journal with some decorative washi tape! Stamps Both postage and ink. Are you in a foreign country? Grab a couple postage stamps. They're not expensive and they're different everywhere you go! Are you visiting a National or State Park? Most have an ink stamp with the date and place, in the gift shop that is free to use. What you ate or drank Every place has their own food and drinks. Why not write about them? You may never get the experience again. You can also include (clean) wrappers of candy, snacks or even teas in your journal. Smell, weather, sounds etc One thing I always do when I go someplace new, is stop, close my eyes and take it all in. Is there a smell of wood burning in fireplaces? Or maybe damp leaves? Write it down. Is the sun beating down? Is there a constant drizzle of rain? Write it down. Is there constantly honking horns? Or maybe it's so quite that you can hear the animals scurrying across the ground. Write it down. These are the things you are less likely to remember down the road. But these are the things that make up new places. People you met I know I meet some amazing people when I travel. I always include them when writing in my journal. I mean, I don't want to forget about them! Foreign Coins After your trip, do you have pokets full of random change? Add it to your journal. I mean you already have it anyway, right? Ticket Stubs What better way to show the tours you went on or the places you've gone? Whenever keeping a travel journal be sure to take the time to write at the end of each day. If you don't, it's very easy for the days to run together and to forget important details of your trip. Most importantly, have fun. Write, draw, bullet, do whatever you want. It's your journal and a documentation of your journey. What do you include in your travel journal? Disclosure: This blog post may contain affiliate links or endorsements for which I may receive compensation. Your purchase helps me continue to bring you tips and adventures. But as always, the views and opinions are my own.

I've jumped on the Traveler's Notebook bandwagon, which is the new trend in scrapbooking + documenting. When in Tokyo, I was fortunate to go to the Midori's Traveler's Notebook Factory, where I loaded up on some supplies. What better format...

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Midori offer this accessory for the Traveler's Notebook: This sits behind your main notebook (or notebooks) and holds loose items. It is Midori refil number 020. It costs around £7 and comes in a packet like this: But it's quite easy to make one at home using an old file folder. Your folder can be A4, Letter, Legal or Foolscap size. Open it up and it'll look like this: That central fold will be the spine of our notebook insert. A Traveler's Notebook insert is 210 mm tall and 110 mm wide. Ours is going to be just slightly wider than that so it can sit flush behind another notebook. Get out a ruler and a pencil and start drawing all the lines you can see below. Once you've drawn all the lines, you can start cutting all the red lines and scoring the green ones. Here's what you should be left with: If you want to have card slots, now is the time to cut them out, about 40mm up from the bottom edge of the flap: You can now glue and assemble. Fold over each Flap X, then glue each Flap Y and fold them up. Hold them in place with binder clips while the glue dries. Your finished item should look like this: It is now ready to use. You can alter the shape of the flaps as you like. If you're holding two or more books in your Midori, you might want to make the 112mm measurement a little wider.

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Journaling is a great way to bring conscious intention to your day. I have been doing this for years using the Bullet Journal system! It is so great, but I have learned that travelers notebooks may be even better! They allow you to have separate signatures or sections of your journal that can stay i

A traveler's notebook is a special kind of keepsake. It holds your thoughts, your plans, your dreams, and your memories, all bundled together in an intimate and personal way. A simple yet versatile tool, the

Dear friends, it’s time I properly introduced you to my traveler’s notebook! I’ve been using this traveler’s notebook by Midori since last June, so I’ve been using it …

Midori offer this accessory for the Traveler's Notebook: This sits behind your main notebook (or notebooks) and holds loose items. It is Midori refil number 020. It costs around £7 and comes in a packet like this: But it's quite easy to make one at home using an old file folder. Your folder can be A4, Letter, Legal or Foolscap size. Open it up and it'll look like this: That central fold will be the spine of our notebook insert. A Traveler's Notebook insert is 210 mm tall and 110 mm wide. Ours is going to be just slightly wider than that so it can sit flush behind another notebook. Get out a ruler and a pencil and start drawing all the lines you can see below. Once you've drawn all the lines, you can start cutting all the red lines and scoring the green ones. Here's what you should be left with: If you want to have card slots, now is the time to cut them out, about 40mm up from the bottom edge of the flap: You can now glue and assemble. Fold over each Flap X, then glue each Flap Y and fold them up. Hold them in place with binder clips while the glue dries. Your finished item should look like this: It is now ready to use. You can alter the shape of the flaps as you like. If you're holding two or more books in your Midori, you might want to make the 112mm measurement a little wider.

We are back from another epic trip! And this time I have recorded / journalled our trip in my new Midori Travelers' Notebook, bought ri...

This is a group for sharing photos of how you use Midori (Designphil)'s Traveler's Notebook. Feel free to post any shots of the notebook itself, your drawing on it, your customization etc. Photos of other notebooks will be removed, just to keep this group focused. Update: June 2011, Midori now has an English web site for Traveler's Notebook! And you can find the official stores online/offline selling the notebooks here: www.midori-japan.co.jp/tr/english/trnotebook/shopinfo/ind... ************** Any photo or drawings or how you use Midori's Traveler's Notebook can be uploaded to this group. Currently (2008) there are several stores outside Japan are selling the notebook: city'super (www.citysuper.com.hk) and Maido Stationery & Gift (check out this post). Check out my flickr set of Midori's Traveler's Notebook. Check out the official Traveler's Notebook web site.

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Les vacances approchent à grand pas. Et si cette année, c'était le moment de compiler vos souvenirs dans un journal de voyage? Découvrez 30 inspirations aux styles variés pour créer vous même votre carnet de souvenirs.

Hi there everyone! I am so excited to share with you my new planner system! I have abandoned all other planners because I was just feeling very overwhelmed. I stopped using all of my planners because it just simply wasn't working for me. I fell out of love with them all and couldn't find myself being productive in using them. I needed a new system, a simple one. So I dumped everything and just started with a blank slate. I found a Piccadilly journal at the thrift store and started using it as a brain dump/bullet journal. I loved it

If you are new to the Midori, it may not be immediately obvious to you how flexible the system is. New users are often unaware of how to add booklets - or sometimes that this can be done at all. These visual guides will get you started. Click on each to expand them on screen.

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Here's the full travel journal flip-through, along with my travel vlog memories . The stationery shop I visited to get my leather cover ...

Absolutely not your typical journal, I was amazed by the content in them. Jose Naranja worked for may years as an aeronautical engineer, he then decided to start documenting his travels and his thoughts in a very artistic way, in his Moleskine books. By the way, now he creates his own books and has instructions on his blog site, on how you can make your own. The thing I like most about them, is the relationship between the drawings, photos and his thoughts expressed in calligraphy. His writing, so beautifully frames the images, that it becomes as artistic as the drawings themselves. These journals are not like most of the ones I have seen in the past, apart from the calligraphy, drawings and photos, they contain: observations, gripes the artist has, theories, architecture, culture and food of the various places he visits. The writing in the pictures we have are not in English, so I can't read them, but it really doesn't stop me enjoying the artistry and precision within his journals. A vintage touch. Press the Image to Enlarge it. Random boxes notes form the last days in Bangkok. Press the Image to Enlarge it. Route map. All in blues - turquoise fountain pen ink and watercolor. Press the Image to Enlarge it. City monk life. Press the Image to Enlarge it. Temples in Thailand. Press the Image to Enlarge it. Mahjong will be my door to Chinese culture. Press the Image to Enlarge it. Japanese culture. Press the Image to Enlarge it. The Handmaiden. Press the Image to Enlarge it. This Willys is a tough and tiny car. Press the Image to Enlarge it. Morons are morons. Press the Image to Enlarge it. Colombia is food. Press the Image to Enlarge it. Evolution of, recent, chess. Press the Image to Enlarge it. Going to the post office is my patience zen test. Press the Image to Enlarge it. Nature creates similar shapes. Press the Image to Enlarge it. Vintage Style and Vibrant. Press the Image to Enlarge it. Why am I doing this. Press the Image to Enlarge it.

We traveled in June to London and I brought along a new blank Midori Travelers' Notebook insert to journal on the go. We've ...

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Here are some great ideas for turning pages into pockets, and adding pockets to notebooks or journals. These are really great ideas for a travel journal as shown in the example, but can also be ada…

Like Field Notes, Hobonichi Techno and Filofax, there’s a rabid and growing following for the Midori Traveler’s Notebook. At its essence, the Midori Traveler’s Notebook (MTN) is a…