| Chronicling your travels on scrapbook pages allows | | | | categories or logical groupings. These groupings |
| you to relive the trip even when you're back home. | | | | (which translate into pages) might be: |
| Photos, memorabilia, facts and journaling impressions | | | | - the people |
| are all part of making scrapbook pages that capture | | | | - the place |
| the trip. | | | | - the spots at the place |
| While some travels are best looked at chronologically | | | | - the constants |
| when you are making scrapbook pages, others | | | | - the highlights |
| benefit from a "subject" approach. Consider the | | | | - the activities |
| following types of travels: | | | | Scrapbooking a vacation when you go On Tour |
| Scrapbooking the Weekend Getaway | | | | The "On Tour" travel experience is one in which |
| A weekend getaway can be as much about the | | | | many of the details are decided ahead of time--and, |
| company as the destination. It might be a short trip | | | | in fact, taken care of for you--so that you can relax |
| to hang out with friends, find some romance, see an | | | | as well as experience new sights and experiences. |
| exhibit, or just take a break from your typical | | | | There are many ways to go "on tour" from taking a |
| weekend routines. With fewer photos from fewer | | | | cruise to going on guided hike and camping |
| activities (than you'd have with bigger trips), the | | | | adventure. You might take a bus tour through Europe |
| scrapbooking of weekend getaways can focus on | | | | or go on safari in Africa. |
| impressions, stories, companions, and moments. | | | | The photos you take while on tour will include those |
| Try this: find a strong opening photo and a strong | | | | of the sights you visit as well of those of the |
| closing photo. Put each of them on their own | | | | aspects of the tour experience (i.e., lodging, people, |
| scrapbook pages and then make several pages for | | | | routines). A combination approach that mixes |
| the middle that show the key stories/moments on | | | | chronological telling of the trip with select subject |
| this short getaway. Get the stories written down as | | | | pages would work well for this kind of travel |
| soon as you can, in a diary or on a blog, if you're not | | | | scrapbooking. |
| scrapbooking the pages immediately. | | | | Try this: Make two lists: one of the trip chronology |
| Scrapbooking the Road Trip | | | | and one of the aspects/subjects you want to |
| A "road-trip" type vacation is not necessarily a literal | | | | feature. Use a chronological flow with the featured |
| trip in a car on a road or highway. The "road-trip" | | | | aspects inserted where they flow best. |
| vacation is one that takes you to a series of what | | | | Scrapbooking the Themed Vacation |
| may be quite different locales over the course of | | | | The "themed" vacation is one that takes you into a |
| one trip. The road-trip is a story that's well-suited to | | | | created world where you are doing more than |
| being told in chronological order (more or less). | | | | viewing, where you're entering into and experiencing |
| Try this: Begin by detailing the different stops on | | | | a manufactured reality. You may have gone on a |
| the trip. After you've listed them all, go back through | | | | Disney vacation, visited a historic settlement where |
| and think about whether they all really need to be | | | | you're re-enacting the way things were done in the |
| included. Think, also, about whether there are some | | | | past, travelled to Santa's Village, or many other |
| stories that merit their own pages and how best to | | | | variations on the themed destination. The photos |
| get the pages and stories in order. | | | | from a themed vacation can cover a lot of territory, |
| Scrapbooking a trip that's about Being There | | | | and they don't usually require a chronological telling. |
| Some trips take you to one locale. There's limited | | | | Aspects of a large theme/amusement park may |
| sightseeing on this type of vacation, and it's more | | | | include: characters, rides, performances, events, |
| about enjoying place, people, and activities. Examples | | | | posed portraits, sights and more. |
| of this kind of vacation include: | | | | Try this: Begin with your "stack" of photos (prints or |
| - visiting family | | | | digitals). Select the keepers AND select the photos |
| - staying at a lakehouse/beachhouse | | | | that are spectacular and that should be featured. Use |
| - going camping | | | | the page planner to start defining the pages your |
| - the ski slopes | | | | photos demand of you. Once you've made a first |
| Try this: It's often more efficient and makes a better | | | | pass at this, you might need to cut the planner up |
| presentation when "Being There" trips are by | | | | and play with order and arrangement of pages. |