Do you keep a journal?

[skygazer]

I don't keep one regularly but whenever I travel, I do. I came across a notebook with some of them from various trips and I'm having a good time reading them - things I'd forgotten about and silly thoughts I had or neat sights. Since a lot of my travels have been by thumb or cross-country driving, the journals can be pretty entertaining.

[Rabrrrrrr]

1. I don't believe in oppressing anything. My journal is free to come and go

as it will.

So far, it hasn't gone anywhere, but just in case, I refuse to "keep" it like it's a slave.

I'm sorry, but I thought this was a *progressive* website?

:footstamp:

:harumph:

:eyes:

[supernova]

3. You funny!

:D

I suppose your journal is free range then.

[Haole Girl]

2. Nope

Every time I kept a journal, while growing up, it would be read by exactly the people I didn't want to read it. Even when I put a lock on it! One of the drawbacks of having 3 siblings and a very controlling mother, I guess. Anyway, it turned me off on the whole thing. I do have a Diary on myspace...though, I still worry "Tom" will read it!! :-(

[skygazer]

5. I don't write personal things in my journals

They're just accounts of my trips and bring back some nice memories when I read them. Take this excerpt from July 4, 1998 - I'd hitched into Livingston, Montana the previous night which is a town right in the heart of the mountains - cool place. I'd grabbed some food at Hardee's -

-It was late - when I'd left Hardee's it was 11. I know because I asked the jerk behind the counter what time it was. "Night time!" he said brightly. I gazed at him with eyes like a hungry rattlesnake and he hurriedly told me the time. "Thank you," I said, feeling like Clint Eastwood, "I have been awake for two days. Don't screw with me." He babbled and apoligized.-

[Haole Girl]

7. That's great!

Maybe someday I'll get over my complex.

One reason I don't keep a travel journal is because I like to give my poor fingers and wrists a rest while I'm on vacation (since I type all day...and sometimes, on DU, all night!). :hi:

[bigwillq]

9. Tom reads everything.

Nothing is safe to post on myspace....he is reading your diary right now! :P ;) :)

[supernova]

4. I've tried to

over the years, but I don't have the discipline to do it regularly. Mostly it winds up being a crampy, PMS journal. :P

So I content myself with writing about specific things or just being very erratic with it.

[skygazer]

6. That's why I just keep travel journals

I wouldn't have anything to write about on a daily basis but when I travel, I keep track of the places I've been and what I did and the scenery and people I meet. I'm not an interesting enough person to keep any kind of regular journal - I doubt very many people are.

[supernova]

8. That's a good thing

to do. I did write a travel jounal when I went to Europe the first time. It is one of my favorite things. :-)

It's so much more intimate a memory than your pictures, even.