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Stop relying solely on your smartphone’s camera. Invest in a compact, travel-friendly camera for higher-quality shots that truly capture the essence of your adventures. Plus, that click sound is just super fun.
Back-Up is Key
Don’t let a lost phone or camera ruin your travel vibe. Be proactive and back up your precious photos to the cloud or a portable hard drive. It’s like a memory vault—safe, secure, and ready to access whenever you need a nostalgia fix.
(@mommye)Bringing Journaling Back
Never forget funny travel anecdotes again! Keep a journal and jot down your thoughts, feelings, and hilarious mishaps along the way. Who knows? They might serve as inspiration for your new viral travel blog.
Polaroids
Bring back the retro charm of instant photography with a Polaroid camera. Capture candid moments on the fly and imagine it’s 1970. By the way, these babies are also perfect to paste inside that travel journal we talked about.
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Postcards are tangible souvenirs that you can collect, display, or even framed, adding character to your home. Plus, if you mail it, there’ll be a cool stamp on the back you won’t get if you just bring the postcard back. Think of it kind of like a time capsule, transporting you back to the moment you wrote the card.
A Personal Touch
Receiving a physical postcard in the mail carries a personal touch. A digital message can never fully replicate a handwritten note. The recipient can hold your travel experiences in their hands and feel a deeper connection to your journey.
Surprise and Delight
Receiving a postcard in the mail is a delightful surprise in today’s digital age. It can brighten someone’s day and create a sense of excitement as they await your message.
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]]>A visual storyteller, Rardon considers herself an unofficial cultural anthropologist, noting that the driving force behind her work has always been connection. “Across the world, I’ve found art is an incredible vehicle for creating deeper connections—with the places we visit and the people who call each place home,” she explains on her website.
“A sketch is a very tangible interpretation of a place,” she further explained in an interview with Off Assignment. “With a writer’s notes, people have to take time to read them, but with art, they can literally look at the picture and react. There’s a possibility of live and direct comparison: They can see my interpretation as it unfolds, find the connection between what’s moving me to create, and what I’m creating.”
Originally from the state of Virginia, Rardon has spent more than a decade traveling and living abroad, in cultures as diverse as India, New Zealand, and Uruguay—where she’s now based in Montevideo. Having earned her Master’s in Travel Writing (yes, apparently that’s a thing), from London’s Kingston University, her love of writing, illustrating, and travel has led her to some interesting collaborations. Over the years, she’s worked with National Geographic, created large-scale murals for global brands in Thailand and Singapore, and was even featured as a sketch artist and niche travel blogger in the New York Times.
“When I’m doing a sketch, I’m writing about that place through lines and shapes,” explains the visual storyteller. “I’m paying just as much attention as if I was sitting there taking notes. Every sketch is a series of decisions, granting importance to certain elements in the scene. And yet it also results in a visual record, as photography does.”
And while the end result is very much inspiring, Rardon acknowledges that capturing the experience rather than beautifying it is what lies at the heart of her work. “Maybe it’s not so much about beauty,” she notes. “My sketch is never going to live up to reality. Later, I’ll wish I could’ve captured the light better, the details better. But it’s just my way of chiseling the foreignness away, getting to the heart of what was so alien when I sat down and opened my sketchbook.”
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By keeping a handwritten journal with you on your travels, you may find that you have a lot more to say than you think. But more importantly, the feeling of putting a pen or pencil to paper is a lot more rustic and real than typing on your smartphone’s touchscreen. In many ways, it exemplifies the spirit of traveling and being outdoors.
Just For You
It’s the tendency of so many people these days to automatically share their experiences with everyone in the world. While we certainly appreciate openness, we believe in some things being kept private as well. When you write something in a travel journal, you’re creating an intimate memory that’s for you, and you alone. This is something that you’ll have for the rest of your life.
A Cherished Keepsake
Ten years, or 20, or 30 years down the line, it’ll be a true joy reading your journal from your travels all those years ago. It’ll be a lot harder for you to scroll back and find those momentary Facebook posts you sporadically posted. The journal, however, will last you forever.
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