DBK
LIFE MEMBER
As there isn't a section in the Forum called The Sad old Men Corner I'm posting this here.
I have been keeping a record of my travels for the past few years which started when I kept a record of my cycling trips on the website www.crazyguyonabike.com then when we got the MH this Forum became the recipient of my electronic ramblings.
Then last year we met a couple who were using an atlas and a notebook to record where they had been and what they had seen. So this year I am trying the same, which does mean a bit of duplication as I am also posting daily updates here on our current trip but the written journal is also being used to record the shorter trips which don't really justify a blog on MHF.
Here are a couple of pictures to show the system I am using:
I am using little numbered stickers, one stuck on the atlas and another in the journal. Yellow stickers are places of interest, blue are the overnight stops.
When the subject of blogging came up here on MHF there were several who said they just relied on memory and didn't bother to write anything down. In my experience memory is unreliable but a written record, even if quite terse triggers the memory. Re-reading my short accounts of cycling trips brings memories flooding back. Without the journal I would remember the trip but not the detail and the impressions each place made on me.
A hard copy journal just lacks one thing- pictures. Our forebears seem to have had no problem illustrating their journals with pen and ink sketches and even watercolours but my skills in that department are sadly lacking so I just rely on uploaded photographs, stored as albums, one for each trip.
So, however you do it, long-hand on paper, a blog here on MHF or on your own website I recommend you keep a record of your travels!
I have been keeping a record of my travels for the past few years which started when I kept a record of my cycling trips on the website www.crazyguyonabike.com then when we got the MH this Forum became the recipient of my electronic ramblings.
Then last year we met a couple who were using an atlas and a notebook to record where they had been and what they had seen. So this year I am trying the same, which does mean a bit of duplication as I am also posting daily updates here on our current trip but the written journal is also being used to record the shorter trips which don't really justify a blog on MHF.
Here are a couple of pictures to show the system I am using:
I am using little numbered stickers, one stuck on the atlas and another in the journal. Yellow stickers are places of interest, blue are the overnight stops.
When the subject of blogging came up here on MHF there were several who said they just relied on memory and didn't bother to write anything down. In my experience memory is unreliable but a written record, even if quite terse triggers the memory. Re-reading my short accounts of cycling trips brings memories flooding back. Without the journal I would remember the trip but not the detail and the impressions each place made on me.
A hard copy journal just lacks one thing- pictures. Our forebears seem to have had no problem illustrating their journals with pen and ink sketches and even watercolours but my skills in that department are sadly lacking so I just rely on uploaded photographs, stored as albums, one for each trip.
So, however you do it, long-hand on paper, a blog here on MHF or on your own website I recommend you keep a record of your travels!