A journal of your trip?

[TPCShauna]

I want to keep a journal on our next WDW trip. I meant to do it last time but never had time to pick up an actual journal so didn't end up writing anything about it other than my scrapbook journaling.

I really want a whole book that is a place for me to talk about what we did/ate/loved/didn't like etc. while we are actually there. One reason is that I would like to do a trip report and dining report but can never remember the details. The other is that I would just really like to have something in writing for all of our trips to the World.

So, my question is what would you write all this in? I don't want to buy an actual journal because I don't think I would fill it. I could make something but I'm not sure what. I guess I could do a small scrapbook but I really want this just to be handwritten text.

Any ideas?

 

[party of 3]

i took a purple (my fav color) steno pad and started journal as we would make plans. and i was not faithful to it every day i did do it 1/2 of the time we were there for the last 2 trips. i have used the same one both times. it's kinda like my book that i go to when making plans for the next time. it helps with remembering stuff!
not really sure this is what you were asking but it's what i used.

 

[New England Eeyore]

Every trip I just use a regular spiral bound notebook for my journalling/notes because it's something that has to be supplemented a lot when I get home. Without fail, the first 2 days are long and flowing with page after page of details. Then around day 3 the exhaustion sets in and I change over to bullet points with just key phrases/details. About day 4 or 5 I stop all together.

I just get way too tired at night to write in it faithfully, but I'm all about the journalling (and obsessively recording every detail.) I save every receipt (even for a soda because it has a date and time stamp and helps me place where we were at a certain time) and when I get home and am more rested (and isn't that a little ironic?), I go back and flush out the story using all those receipts and my notes. I do my journalling on the computer because I write A LOT (again, obsessive!) and I could never hand-write it all. But I do like to have that hand-written, detail-laden first couple of days' entry. I still have every one I've done. I can't bring myself to throw them away, even when I've transcribed them into the computer or scrapbook, as the case may be.

If you think you will stick with it every night, but don't think you'd fill a bound journal, what about some nice stationery/notepaper? Then you could bind it together yourself when you see how much you have at the end. Or one of those mini scrapbooks that just has blank white pages (like the EK Success 6x6 accordian albums). I guess it depends how much room you think you'd need.

BTW - Is that link in your signature new? I'm off to check out your pre-trippie.

 

[seashellmom]

I brought a small vera bradley notebook at TJ Maxx for $4 and plan to use it as a journal for our Aug trip. In fact, I thought about starting a pre-trip type report in it tonight, to document how obsessed about this trip I have become. I actually packed a suitcase tonight!

I figure if I don't fill it up, I can continue to use for any trips we take.

 

[TPCShauna]

i took a purple (my fav color) steno pad and started journal as we would make plans. and i was not faithful to it every day i did do it 1/2 of the time we were there for the last 2 trips. i have used the same one both times. it's kinda like my book that i go to when making plans for the next time. it helps with remembering stuff!
not really sure this is what you were asking but it's what i used.

That is exactly what I was asking. Thank you!

Every trip I just use a regular spiral bound notebook for my journalling/notes because it's something that has to be supplemented a lot when I get home. Without fail, the first 2 days are long and flowing with page after page of details. Then around day 3 the exhaustion sets in and I change over to bullet points with just key phrases/details. About day 4 or 5 I stop all together.

I just get way too tired at night to write in it faithfully, but I'm all about the journalling (and obsessively recording every detail.) I save every receipt (even for a soda because it has a date and time stamp and helps me place where we were at a certain time) and when I get home and am more rested (and isn't that a little ironic?), I go back and flush out the story using all those receipts and my notes. I do my journalling on the computer because I write A LOT (again, obsessive!) and I could never hand-write it all. But I do like to have that hand-written, detail-laden first couple of days' entry. I still have every one I've done. I can't bring myself to throw them away, even when I've transcribed them into the computer or scrapbook, as the case may be.

If you think you will stick with it every night, but don't think you'd fill a bound journal, what about some nice stationery/notepaper? Then you could bind it together yourself when you see how much you have at the end. Or one of those mini scrapbooks that just has blank white pages (like the EK Success 6x6 accordian albums). I guess it depends how much room you think you'd need.

BTW - Is that link in your signature new? I'm off to check out your pre-trippie.

I have to "decompress" when I get back to the room at night before I go to sleep. I have a big, giant glass of milk and usually read a while but I was planning to change that to journaling. I would like to use the prompts in my Passporter to start my journaling but I know I will need more space.

I am also quite obsessive and tend to write a lot as well and my TR and DR will have the bulk of the details and pictures. I just want a hand-written journal of my trip.

And yes, Hope, that is a new link. I'm just starting it so it's not very interesting yet. I'll have more, soon.

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I was thinking more about it and I'd really like something "Disney-ish" for the journal. The EK success thing is a good idea but I'm afraid that would be too small.

What are most people using for circle journals these days?

 

[New England Eeyore]

What are most people using for circle journals these days?

I like the spiral bound books by Canson and the spiral or ring-bound ones by 7 Gypsies.

 

[rlovew]

Disney has a couple of journals that we have- I have gotten them at the under $10 store on sale. They have soft journals that are less than 50 pages in length and I have a hard one that I think is about 100 pages. You could try a disney covered notebook from walmart or wherever. Also if you want you could make a basic one disneyish by scrapping the cover.

Rebecca

 

[party of 3]

Also if you want you could make a basic one disneyish by scrapping the cover.

Rebecca

that's a good idea rebecca!

 

[ddavis860]

My last cruise, I did a trip report on the DIS...when I got home, I printed it off. I have details of EVERYTHING!!! It was great...

I would get up early, and tell the story of yesterday while I had my coffee. DH had bought me a lap top, so I was typing and sipping, just like at home...but my kids are older, so they weren't moving at 0600...

I love the idea of a notebook decorated for the trip...

 

[party of 3]

shauna, after reading this i went to look to see what i had. i have a spiral bound book that has a chipboard like cover and it's 10 X 7in 30 blank white pages. you could write on the white pages and decorate the cover. how does that sound???

 

[hopemax]

I've tried a couple times to keep a journal. I would just get too tired at the end of the day to write in it, after I organized my pins, pressed pennies, camera stuff. I've started taking pictures of the attraction signs as we get in line, so I can look at my pictures to figure out what order we did things, and jog my memory. I also have a small notebook that I will jot down a few notes at meal times if something funny or unusual happened.