travel writing journals
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 7:26AM Everyone is a travel writer these days. Everyone is writing captions, shooting videos and writing social media posts about where they are.
That doesn't interest me much, beyond the posting of hard core information about prices and access to places. I - along with many others- have grown to find over produced 'content' severely dull and boring!
What I do love are travel journals. Handwritten, hand drawn in some cases, real photos stuck in, tickets and the other flotsam and jetsam also stuck in or at least photographed. Poems mixed with prose. Snatches of real dialogue. No pretension, just an honest record. Dan Price- author of several superb journal type books as well the superb 'how to make a journal' is the godfather of this kind of art/life project. What a great thing to look over years later. Whereas that social meida post- meh!
Travel writing is alive and well- as soon as you take out your notebook and start scribbling.