An important part of travel that is far too often overlooked is documenting the memories you make.
It’s instinctual for most of us to document our time traveling with photographs, but what happens to them once we’re home? All too often mine sit on a memory card only to be forgotten until the next trip comes along.
Social media has helped, in the sense that we are now good and trained at uploading memories instantaneously. These aren’t comprehensive memory safe’s though, only showing a day or a moment where in years to come you’ll wish you remembered more than a selfie and a smart caption.
My favourite way is journaling and I find it’s a relatively easy habit to get yourself into when you’re traveling, much easier than when at home. I make sure to take time each day to write, even just in list form, where we went and what we saw. For the wordsmiths amongst us you may like to write a more comprehensive account, but you’ll be amazed at how much memory recall you can have from even just reading the name of a place or cafe you visited.
If printing out photos isn’t your thing, I’d highly recommend picking your favourite photos as you go and then having them printed into a book when you get home. We only started doing this recently, and I’m trying to organise myself into doing the same for some old trips too – there are loads of companies online that will bind your memories together and send you a gorgeous coffee table book of your adventure. This is great for showing friends and family as well as being a precious keepsake for yourself.