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Physical and Digital Travelogues

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For both physical and digital travelogues (and other journals and scrapbooks) write notes, entries, poems, etc. about your travels and what you experience. You could include drawings, doodles, or small paintings as whole entries or as part of a written one.

Traditional scrapbook

Using a traditional scrapbook or journal, affix your notes, photos, tickets, menus, maps, memorabilia, and other ephemera. You could even create themed pages for each location, experience, or item. If you're into serious decor, however, you could embellish the pages using stickers, washi tapes, decorative papers, pencils, markers, pens, and other embellishments.

Digital scrapbook

Using programs such as Photoshop, InDesign, Canva, or even PowerPoint, you can design a digital scrapbook or website to document your travels, incorporating your digital images, videos, audio, interactive maps, and other digital media, including scans of your real world scrapbooks.

Other ways to enhance your physical or digital travelogues:

• Interactive elements in a physical travelogue could include flaps, pockets, and pop-ups to add something more interactive to your scrapbook.
• Timeline or itinerary layouts allow you to document your journey from start to finish in a more linear fashion, highlighting key moments and locations as you go.
• You could incorporate QR codes or augmented reality elements that link to videos, audio, or other content that highlights your journey and related information.
• Add recordings of conversation, narration, nature sounds, music, et cetera., to complement your visual memories.
• You can scan pages of a physical scrapbook to share online if you aren't creating a dedicated digital scrapbook.
• In a collage-style display - such as a shadow box, framed ephemera, or actual collage - you could incorporate textiles, pressed flowers and leaves, and gifts from locals in the places you visited.
• You could add more pragmatic information, such as distance(s) travelled, a list of locations, weather information, names of streets you stayed on, a list of words you learned in any local languages, travel challenges, or a list of new music you heard. You can make a template data page that you can fill out for each trip and have that as a starting point, or ending point, for the section on that destination.
• You could also put your photos into an album that offers the ability to add annotations, notes, or stickers so you can narrate the images in your photographs. This can be done with any type of photo including Polaroids, or even with postcards.

• postcards, menus, wrappers from things you bought, receipts, travel and transit tickets and tokens, tourist site pamphlets or guides, boarding pass, items from special events, leftover money, stamps, cards, local newspapers or magazines, clipped articles, programmes, key chain, texture rubbings, etc.