Do you keep a journal when you travel? Travel boosts creativity and well-being, and journaling is a great tool to support creative travel. Here are the best travel journals for creative adventures.
Technology continues to improve with easier ways to keep memories in our phones and computers, but sometimes nothing beats the randomization of writing in a travel journal. A good notebook can become its own souvenir and time capsule filled with memories.
For creativity, a journal can become a catalyst to trigger past memories and ignite new ideas. There’s no wrong way to keep a travel journal for creative adventures, and there’s plenty of options to find what works best for your creativity. If you don’t know what to write, try some of these travel journal writing prompts. Make sure to have a good one if you’re planning a creative retreat.
Perhaps the most famous notebook in the world, the Italian Moleskine notebooks are the pinnacle of quality and simplicity.
Their Voyageur notebook is ideal for travelers and includes detachable packing lists, daily planning sections, budget pages, & plenty of space to record notes.
Colors: Coffee Brown / Ocean Blue
These field notebooks are simple in design with 48-pages in graph grid-style and have a large selection of inspiring art covers of national parks to choose from.
THE ARTISTS:
- Yosemite, Zion, and Denali – Dan McCarthy
- Acadia – Telegramme Paper Co.
- Grand Canyon – DKNG Studios
- Joshua Tree – The Little Friends of Printmaking
- Mount Rainier & Sequoia – Glenn Thomas
- Rocky Mountain – Rory Kurtz
- Great Smoky Mountains – Chris Turnham
- Yellowstone – Brave the Woods
- Grand Teton – Eric Nyffeler
- Arches – Nicolas Delort
- Cuyahoga – Kim Smith
- Olympic – Daniel Danger
Travel can be tough. You never know what you will encounter on a journey. So here’s a weatherproof fabrikoid cover with 160 pages / 80 sheets per book that can repel water, sweat, grease, mud, and even survive the accidental laundry mishap.
Colors: Green / Black / Tan / Yellow
This premium cover is a great choice for a durable travel or outdoor adventure notebook and is refillable with 160 blank craft pages.
Colors: Black / Brown / Deep Blue / Red / Sky Blue
Keeping a travel journal isn’t just for adults, it’s also a great way to boost kid’s creativity and pass time during boring travel commutes. It also makes a great keepsake for kids to look back on.
Includes:
- Puzzles and games
- Maps of the world, North America, and Europe.
- Helpful words and phrases in other languages.
- Metric information.
- Fun world facts.
- Travel-related quotes from kid’s books.
- Full-color photos and illustrations.
- Acid-free archival paper preserves your journaling.
- Recommended for ages 6 and up.
If you’re a creative traveler that loves organization or could use a little more, designer Erin Condren made an incredibly useful travel journal for you. This notebook is perfect for travel planning and tracking with up to four weeks of travel with 28 daily spreads to log activities, meals, memories, spending, and more! It’s also very easy and fun to personalize with the included sheet of stickers.
Not much of a writer but like making lists? Here’s the perfect travel journal for you. Topics range from the quintessential (countries to visit, world cuisines to try) to the idiosyncratic (memorable people I’ve met, animals seen in the wild).
Nature has been proven to be a useful tool for boosting creativity and well-being. So if you like camping, try this travel journal specifically made to record the details of your camping adventures with guided fill-in pages and space for extra notes, photos, and mementos.
This notebook is perfect for artists on the go and made with recycled paper. You can also get it with ruled, dot grid, or regular grid if you don’t want it for it’s sketching purposes.
This illustrated and guided travel book encourages travelers to explore the details encountered while traveling. This fun journal includes space to capture itineraries, reviews, tips, a reference section, a back pocket for collecting mementos, and more.
Zach is an international writer, photographer, filmmaker, martial artist, and creator of Creative Enso, the Zen art of creative living. His goal is to empower and inspire creatives to live healthier, happier, and more creative lifestyles.
