Document Your Travels - Oregon Coast 2025
If you've followed me for a while, you know that I completely changed the way I document my travels after a whirlwind anniversary trip in 2023. Instead of packing lots of supplies and trying to create beautiful pages while I was traveling, I simplified everything.
Now, before every trip, I prepare a Traveler's Notebook insert with a spread for each day. While I'm traveling, I spend just 15–20 minutes each evening capturing the day's highlights, stories, and details - nothing more. Then, when I get home, I can take my time adding photos, memorabilia, and creative touches without worrying about forgetting the little moments that made the trip special.
It's a simple system that has made travel documenting so much more enjoyable, and it's the process I used throughout our trip to the Oregon Coast as well.
Gathering stickers along the way and incorporated pieces of receipts, brochures, maps, and tourist magazines into my pages, giving my documenting an authentic local feel and making each day's memories even more meaningful.
One of my favorite sources for free, local memorabilia is the tourism information stands you'll find in airports, hotels, and visitor centers. They're filled with maps, brochures, guides, and other ephemera that's perfect for cutting up and adding to your travel spreads and junk journals. The tourism display at the Portland airport was especially impressive!
Depending on the length of the trip, I always take at least one of my Craft Storage Pouches to hold all of the little treasures I collect along the way. It's the perfect place to keep brochures, maps, tickets, stickers, receipts, postcards, and other memorabilia organized in one spot.
Everything stays together throughout the trip, so when I get home and I'm ready to continue documenting, I know exactly where everything is. No digging through suitcases or wondering where that special ticket or brochure ended up - it's all right there, ready to become part of the story.
If you'd like to learn more about how and why I document my travels this way & why it's been so successful, be sure to check out my full blog post here.
See more of my travel TN spreads here.
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Want to learn more about my complete travel documenting process? Check out my Document Your Travels e-Course, where I share my system from start to finish - including how I prepare before a trip, document while I'm traveling, taking and organizing photos, organizing memorabilia, and bringing it all together into meaningful keepsakes when I get home.
The Document Your Travels self paced e-course is based on a process I followed to successfully document an 18 day trip abroad in 2023, while I was traveling, with only a backpack and a carry-on, & it couldn't have been easier!
This Document Your Travels self paced e-course is a 3 part video series -
Part I - how to prepare to document before you go on a trip
Part II - how to easily capture all the details on the go, while you’re traveling, including tips for collecting all the memorabilia & things and organizing your photos along the way
Part III - how to put it all together when you return home from the trip, regardless of whether in a Traveler’s Notebook, mini book, 12x12 scrapbook, etc.
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