If you really want to get the most out of a round the world trip, you’ll need to make sure that you can look back on in years to come. And that’s only really possible, at least in the most effective way, if you have mementos and things to look back on. That’s why we’re going to talk today about some of the different approaches you can take to chronicling your round the world trip, so read on and learn more.
Invest in a Camera
Investing in a camera might be one of the very best ways to chronicle your journey. Taking photos along the way and storing them, either in an album or digitally, for the future is definitely a good idea. So if you don’t have a camera and you want to give yourself the impetus to take more photos when you’re out and about, buying a camera might be a smart move.
Blog It
These days, lots of people choose to chronicle their trips by writing about them and publishing them online. If you’re not a professional writer, it’s easy to set up your own blog and start the process. Once you get into the habit of writing about your experiences each day and publishing them, it becomes a lot of fun. And if you are a pro, you could write about your trip for a travel site or magazine.
Use a Traditional Journal
If you don’t feel like publishing your travel experiences and thoughts for the whole world to read, you could stick to the old-fashioned method of writing in a journal and chronicling your progress that way. Journals are cheap and easy, and you can take one with you in your backpack no matter where you’re going or how light you’re trying to travel.
Create a Scrapbook as You Go
Another idea is to create a scrapbook or some kind. This allows you to keep bits and pieces that you pick up along the way and put them all together in one place. You can use scrapbook stickers, tickets and other little paper and card-based trinkets that are gathered along the way. But all of that stuff, as well as some printed photos, in one place results in a fantastic book that chronicles the entire journey.
Send Yourself Postcards from Each Place You Visit
One idea that lots of people use is buying postcards in the places they visit and then posting them back home. That way, you have a big pile of postcards to come back to when your trip has finished and you can keep each of them as a souvenir from the various places you visited.
A round the world trip is the kind of experience that you only have once in a lifetime, so it makes sense that you’d want to chronicle it. The different ideas above each offer a fantastic way of doing precisely that, and you don’t have to choose just one of them. A combination often works best for most people.
