Hello, readers! Now that I'm back from my trip, and through Banned Books Week, it's time to share some of my stories from my travel journal.
August 31-September 17, Jason and I went on a delayed honeymoon/1st anniversary trip. We visited England, Norway, Iceland, and Scotland. I will eventually post some pictures here and on social media, but I first want to tell you about the journal itself.
One of the things my mother-in-law gave me for Christmas was a beautiful blank book. As soon as I saw it, I knew it had to be my travel journal. I've been on trips before where I've said, "I will write every day! I will write about every little detail!" But that's a hard goal to live up to, especially when you have a lot of exciting things you're doing.
This time around, I had a more reasonable goal. This wasn't meant to be a 100% comprehensive documentary of my trip. Instead, I would write impressions, some of our experiences, little details that I found interesting, and story inspirations.
As of looking back through the journal, I find the grand haul to be:
-8 quick anecdotes/interesting facts
-9 details and inspiration for writing in general
-3 new story ideas (not counting the one I had the day we left, before we left the house)
-5 interesting historical tidbits (not counting the ghost stories)
-3 important facts or inspiration for stories I'm already working on
-3 general/longer anecdotes
-3 ghost stories
-2 goofy anecdotes about our captain
I won't be sharing everything I mention above, and what I do share will be spread out over the next few weeks and months, interspersed with other topics and updates.
(Unrelated to the journal itself, I also bought 4 books on the trip. So there’s that.)