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Travel Journal Hacks #1 - Selecting Your Travel Journal - everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask!
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Travel Journal Hacks # 1 Selecting Your Travel Journal – everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask… After you’ve taken a Journal with you on a few trips, you’ll find that you begin to develop your own preferences. You’ll find that you have a certain the size of journal and page-count that you like. You’ll find there is a particular weight of paper that works for you, and so much more. Over the years of teaching others how to keep a Travel Journal, and after years of keeping them myself, it strikes me that...
Three Things The Canadian Arctic Taught Me About Keeping a Travel Journal
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Three Things The Canadian Arctic Taught Me About Keeping a Travel Journal A few years ago, I was fortunate to be part of a crew of 12 adventurers who paddled the Mackenzie River. For the month of July, we paddled 1500km through some of Canada’s most spectacular scenery - and the whole way that Arctic landscape tested our metal. Loading our gear into 26' voyageur canoes at Fort Providence at the west end of Great Slave Lake. I kept the first page of my Journal to use as a 'title page' - something to try and set the...
It’s not always about you….yes, it is!
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There sometimes seems to be a notion floating out there that, if you do things for yourself, then you have some kind of ego problem. That’s simply not true; nor is it a healthy approach to this wonderful and magical short time we have here with family and friends and exploring an exciting world. A wonderful and busy view of the Fish Market in downtown Zihuatanejo, Mexico. If there were anything I could encourage you to do, it would be to put yourself first in more things in your life - not in a self-centred way or...
More Memories - Clearer Memories
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A spectacular view of Mount Hood as we paddled the Columbia River. How clear would you like your memories to be? How clearly would you like to recall the wonderful and exciting memories of your summer vacation hiking weekends, or your road trip back to your home town, and so much more? There are lots of research studies out there now that demonstrate just how much better and clearer your memories will be if you write them down - and that’s just one of the many benefits of keeping a Travel Journal. We all take...
Nurture Your Creative Spirit
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This is the Title Page of the latest Travel Journal I’m doing - I started this last summer and will probably finish it this spring with short local trips. Permission Pause Passion Perspective It seems to me that these 4 words combine to give us something that we all strive to have more of somewhere in our lives - a creative spirit. And it won’t surprise you that, I believe, keeping a Travel Journal is an ideal vehicle to begin that process of caring for your creative side. A Travel Journal can hold all those unique...