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Why You Need A Travel Journal - Travel Tip Tuesday · Travel Mug Podcast

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  Jenn: Hi, everyone.
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  Jenn: Welcome back to travel Tip Tuesday travel mug podcast.
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  Jenn: This week I want to talk to you about having a travel journal.
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  Jenn: This is something I've done for most trips that I've taken.
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  Jenn: Sometimes it's just been like a word doc on my computer.
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  Jenn: Sometimes it's been a notebook, but in Christmas, I think 2014 my husband bought us a custom travel journal.
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  Jenn: Got our names on it.
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  Jenn: Very very cute.
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  Jenn: I love it so much.
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  Jenn: I believe our first trip in it is our honeymoon, which is just so precious.
• 0:38
  Jenn: And I think it's going to be full soon.
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  Jenn: I need to dig to get it out.
• 0:42
  Jenn: Cause we're, we're getting ready to go.
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  Jenn: But yeah, I think journaling during your travels kind of helps you remember what you did, what you saw, people you met so much more, you forget things.
• 0:56
  Jenn: So much quicker than you think.
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  Meggan: Oh my God.
• 0:59
  Meggan: Yeah.
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  Jenn: So I love taking a few minutes at the end of the day to write down what we did, where we ate, how the day was and that sort of thing.
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  Jenn: And it makes a great souvenir too.
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  Jenn: I think like you can add little things to the pages.
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  Jenn: If you want, you can kind of make it more of like a scrapbook style versus just ours is like a straight journal.
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  Jenn: It can be whatever you want.
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  Meggan: Right.
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  Jenn: No rules, but I really think that you should have one because it is really fun to look back.
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  Jenn: Like usually every time I get it out to getting ready for a trip, I start reading back through and remember things that I've kind of forgotten about.
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  Jenn: And I think it's just really fun.
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  Jenn: Do you keep a travel journal at all Meggan?
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  Meggan: Um, some trips.
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  Meggan: I have some, I haven't, I mean, it's really hit and miss, I do have a book of course, that I have used prepare for our last few trips, even back to Ireland and Iceland.
• 1:56
  Meggan: So I will definitely take that with us as I've made notes pre-trip I'm assuming I'll probably keep some notes during it.
• 2:02
  Meggan: Same idea to sort of remember.
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  Meggan: One advantage we have is Peter really does videotape almost like all of our trip, which, you know, in the beginning of her relationship with like you're a weirdo with a video camera, honestly, he has footage of so much of our lives.
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  Meggan: I'm so grateful.
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  Meggan: Like we have everything, all of our trips, even with my family, my grandmother who just passed away, like I have video of almost everything and I feel so lucky.
• 2:31
  Meggan: So I think in terms of journaling, that's why I've probably been a little lazier at times, because I know that we have it, like I know, but I love to write.
• 2:40
  Meggan: So it is something that I have done periodically.
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  Meggan: I do intend to do it on this trip because it's going to be a whirlwind two weeks and you're right, stuff gets lost and I think it's great to jot it down in the moment as well.
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  Meggan: I think that's really special.
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  Meggan: You're there.
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  Meggan: When you look back, you're like I was there when I wrote this and it's, it is really cool.
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  Meggan: So I, I did in Iceland, Ireland, I will probably do it on this trip as well.
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  Meggan: So the answer is hit and miss, but going forward probably, but do it.
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  Jenn: Yes.
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  Jenn: I love it.
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  Jenn: And our last couple of big trips have been Disney trips and we've been like, I write down like what rides we were on.
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  Jenn: What we did.
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  Jenn: And it is just a really fun.
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  Jenn: Time capsule to go back.
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  Jenn: And actually I just, just remembered this.
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  Jenn: The first time we went to Disney I went with my dad and step-mom and my brother and on the plane on the way home, my dad got us to write down like our top three favorite things that we did.
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  Jenn: And then he kept those and gave them back to us as adults, which was really cool to do
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  Meggan: that is so cute.
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  Jenn: Also a great idea.
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  Jenn: Yeah.
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  Jenn: I hope that this inspires you to keep a journal if you're not already doing that when you travel.
• 3:53
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• 4:27
  Meggan: Bye everyone.