Travel Writing for Pleasure: The Joys of Keeping a Journal
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 07.31.06 | 2:38 PM ET
Deborah Burand wrote a short but sweet story for Transitions Abroad a few months back about keeping a travel journal. As far as I can tell, the magazine didn’t post it online but Utne has reprinted it in its July/August 2006 issue. “My first journal is housed in a small, pink, spiral-bound notebook, the kind you can buy in the corner drugstore,” she writes. “The pages are yellow and brittle with age. An entry from the first day of my family’s cross-country drive to California reads, ‘The loveliness of this morning is to me a good omen that we shall find beauty everywhere on our trip.’ I have to admit I am more than a little in love with the eager 12-year-old who wrote those words, trying on grown-up ideas the way she once tried on her mother’s petticoats and long dresses.”
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
