Travel Logs
I spoke of traditions in my previous post. I believe it’s important to have family traditions, they leave lasting memories that endure for a lifetime. I can still remember details of Christmas celebrations my sisters and I shared with my parents when I was just my daughter’s age. I know I can still remember them because my Mom took the time and care to create family traditions. When things are repeated year after year, we tend to remember them.
It’s odd, I can remember things like holiday celebrations when I was a kid, but I have a much more difficult time remembering things when I was older, like special places we traveled to and attractions we visited. When I was in high school my parents lived overseas. I would meet them at least twice a year, usually in Europe, and we would spend a couple of weeks together visiting cities and sites. We took tons of pictures, but this was way before scrapbooking was around. I did manage to put together a couple of photo albums, but most of my pictures are in boxes. I have one box with about 500 pictures of our trip to Kenya. I still love looking through them, but I wish I had been smart enough to keep a Globetrotter's LogBook® or a journal of some sort to help me remember where all those pictures were taken.
I would love to be able to share better details with my daughter of all the places in the world that I’ve traveled to. Sometimes I think she thinks I’m making it up! I think when we’re younger we think we have these amazing memories, we just need to be smart enough to write those memories down! I’m glad my daughter likes to keep journals. When we went to South Dakota a couple of summers back she did keep a journal of our activities. After we got our pictures developed she was able to use her journal to put all the pictures in order and put it all into a scrapbook. I definitely need to use her method on our next trip. Maybe I’ll get a nice travel journal as a gift this Christmas, I’d really enjoy that.
