Creative Ways to Document Your Travels

Creative Ways to Document Your Travels

We all know that it’s fun to relive the memories of a trip we’ve taken. Instead of just relying on memories it’s always nice to have some sort of visual reminder to help us jog our memories. Here are some creative ways to document your travels.

• Make A Blog

If you want to remember anything and everything that happened on vacation, consider making a blog. You can use it to post pictures and stories about them. One of the nice things about a blog is that if you travel a lot you can post all of your travel adventures on them and have one central place to see everything. There are lots of free blog services including WordPress. You may find our Hacks for Taking Great Smartphone Travel Pictures helpful.

Another option is to make a Vlog. Use programs like iMovie or movie maker through windows to edit your videos.

• Use Instagram Stories

Do you like to share your travels with your friends? Consider posting some of the highlights of your trip on an Instagram story. These quick little stories will let your followers know what you are up too and allow you to have something to look back on. If you want to have them to look at later on, don’t forget to save them so that they are available on your page whenever you want to look at them.

• Take Short Videos To Piece Together Later

Many travelers take short little videos throughout their vacation, but don’t know what to do with them once their vacation is over. To make it easier to view your videos and to create more of a short story about your travels, piece them all together at the end of your trip. Apps like Clips allows you to put together all of these short videos to make a longer one. You can even add texts, graphics and special effects. These types of apps tend to be easy to use and you don’t have to have any sort of special know how in order to make an awesome video to document your travel journey.

• Use an Old Fashioned Travel Journal or Scrapbook

Look around Instagram and you will see some very creative journal ideas. It’s not just about adding content anymore.  Draw, use stickers, be creative!  Take for example christina77star – I personally can’t draw, but love the way her journal pages looks.  We share various examples below.

• Use Pinterest

Create board of the places you have been and the places on your bucket list to travel to in the future.  Make sure to include maps, photos of restaurant, signs as you enter a new city, all of the sightseeing you do, etc.  Your board can help inspire others. Check out this useful post on How to Use Pinterest for Travel Planning

• Collect Items Along The Way

If you want a truly unique way to document your travel journey, collect little items along the way to put in a scrapbook once you get home. Another option is to create a memory box. Collect a rock from a monument, save a coaster from a restaurant, save ticket stubs or purchase a small trinket from a market. Make sure that all of these items are small enough to fit on the page of a scrapbook or your memory box, and remember to add some sort of label or a few sentences as to the story behind each item.

• Buy the Same Type of Souvenir Wherever You Go

Items such as magnets, shot glasses, postcards – collect them from every place you have traveled.  Another popular option is Christmas ornaments. Once per year you can fill the tree and bring back memories of all of your travels.

• Put Together a Cook Book

You would be surprised how many chefs around the world are happy to share their recipes of their signature dishes.  Why not collect your favorite recipes and come back home and recreate the flavors.

Creative Ways to Document Your Travels – Travel Journal Examples from Instragram

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