Things to Save in Your Travel Journal

 

•   Plane boarding passes

• Airport luggage tags 

• Train tickets

• Metro tickets / If you load more than one ride onto these, they will be dated of all the times you used them

• Post cards (bought new) 

• Vintage post cards /Bought in cute little thrift stores, with old messages on the back already! 

• Vintage Maps / Go to this cool website and print off (FREE) real vintage maps of the places you are going! 

• A map for coloring in all of the places you go to on the trip 

• Bought stickers 

• Calendars

• Business cards from places you like

• These will include addresses, so you can visit again!

• Museum tickets

• Concert/Festival tickets

• Free city maps as backgrounds, grab two everywhere you go!

• Postal Stamps

• Packaging from your favorite foreign foods

• Candy wrappers

• Wine Labels

• Beer caps

• Brochures from sites you visit

• They fold out and maximize your space to make your journal like a pop-up book!

• Stickers that close a bag/bears a logo

• Tea bag wrappers /Tea bag tags

• Coffee sleeves

• Left over currency

• Receipts in different languages

• An itinerary for the trip

• The city’s official tourism brochure

• Cut outs of the city’s name that the page is about

• Adds great organization to your pages and makes them look pretty!

• Cut outs of advertisements

• Weather reports from the day from the local newspaper

• Newspaper headlines/articles in a different language

• Use pouches from espresso pods as a pocket to hold the Cafe’s flyer

• Magazine clippings of images

• The pretty package that something came in

• A bag from a store you liked with the store’s name on it

• Flower Petals /Leaves/stems

• Price tags from your favorite shopping trips

• Photography of your locations cut out of photography magazines

• City bike rental cards

• Museum maps

• Things you find on the street

• Party invitations

• People’s phone numbers that they give to you as an attempt to flirt!

• The toothpick that came in your big sandwich

• Menus

• Advertisements stapled to light posts

• Flyers that people hand you

• A napkin bearing a place’s name

• The thing that wraps around your silverware bearing the place’s name

• Place stamps (every national park in the US has these)

• A coffee stain

• A wine stain

• Sea Shells

• A Beautiful Moment

• Thoughts & Date

• Things that Made Me Smile

• Photos from the trip

• Printed off on an instant printing camera/phone printer

• Draw a place for your photos and print later

• Drawings of surroundings

• Places to eat/tips for next time you go

• Packing list/ what you wish you had brought/ what you didn't use

• Practical facts about prices of tickets

• Advice about what you enjoyed/didn’t

• When and Where headings

• Quotes

1.  That you look up beforehand 

2. That you hear while traveling   

3. That your destination reminds you of

• Names of people you met

• Contact information for people you meet

• Small poems inspired by your surroundings

• Prose sketches of people you meet

• A hand drawn map of your surroundings

• Water color drawings

• Sand,include a mini ziplock bag

• Drawing of the skyline

• A bookmark

• Currency for your travel location

• A book page

• Photo booth rolls

• A perfume sample you liked (or didn’t)

• Recipes

• Etchings

• Of grave stones or raised street names or cool textures

• A drawing bought from a street artist