Travel Journal

December 9, 2015 posted by Vicki in Dot Dot Dot

The end of November saw a long holiday so I found this as a chance to go on a quick weekend escape to Clark Freeport, Pampanga, a former American naval and military base turned recreation hotspot here in the Philippines. My traveling companions were my 10-year old son Enzo, my girl friend Sarah and her 7-year-old daughter Chloe. None of us had been to Clark together and it marked a really wonderful weekend trip bonding with each other in a new environment.

 While shopping at the Duty Free store – which is always part of the itinerary while in Clark,– I happened to find these black and white composition notebooks that I used to have when I was child growing up in Los Angeles. Wow – did they bring back memories! I’m sure you have seen these in movies or found them written about in coming of age books  like Judy Blume (if you were a child in the 80’s, like me!). Sarah and I ended up buying the whole lot of them.

I gave one to Enzo and told him that it was his journal – to write thoughts in, to record travel memories and whatever he felt like writing. It is my way of taking him off the iPad and to actually write something down that doesn’t have anything to do with school. Now that he is learning about blogging in school, I showed him The Gypsetters as my new travel diary and I told him I used to keep old train tickets, flyers from museums and playbills and scrapbook them to remember my trips abroad. For a more “adult-looking” travel diary, I love this old school Adventure Log I found on the manly website Cool Material. It reminds me of something out of a Wes Anderson movie! Can’t you just imagine it as part of a scene where Owen Wilson or Adrien Brody is furiously scribbling in?

Advenuture Log notebook sold on coolmaterial.com

 How do you journal your travel memories? Watch out for Enzo’s cute first guest blog on our adventure to Clark in an upcoming post!

 May all your gypsetting dreams come true,

Vicki