Comments on: How Do You Remember Your Travels? http://perceptivetravel.com/blog/2009/09/22/capturing-travel-memories/ Travel stories, world music, travel books, and a close peek at unique destinations. Wed, 23 May 2012 13:50:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Andrea http://perceptivetravel.com/blog/2009/09/22/capturing-travel-memories/comment-page-1/#comment-100955 Andrea Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:50:39 +0000 http://perceptivetravel.com/blog/?p=2521#comment-100955 Great! Wonderful time. Great!
Wonderful time.

]]> By: Costa Rica Hotels http://perceptivetravel.com/blog/2009/09/22/capturing-travel-memories/comment-page-1/#comment-100558 Costa Rica Hotels Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:53:56 +0000 http://perceptivetravel.com/blog/?p=2521#comment-100558 I believe there are strong memories that will always be with you, but there are others that comes from time to time thanks to conversations, etc I believe there are strong memories that will always be with you, but there are others that comes from time to time thanks to conversations, etc

]]> By: Antonia Malchik http://perceptivetravel.com/blog/2009/09/22/capturing-travel-memories/comment-page-1/#comment-100478 Antonia Malchik Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:30:58 +0000 http://perceptivetravel.com/blog/?p=2521#comment-100478 What a beautiful essay. I do a lot of picture-taking and note-taking, but have to admit those started up when I started travel writing, as reference points more than lasting memories, if that makes sense. I suppose the way I best preserve my travel memories is to write an essay or story about the experience. The notes and photos don't come even close to gelling the memories in my mind the way writing a narrative about them can. In a way, that's also how I figure out how the experience changed me. I can't blog while I'm traveling! Sometimes I have to, but nothing crashes my traveling party like having to be connected to the Internet, and in that way connected to home and my "real" life. What a beautiful essay.

I do a lot of picture-taking and note-taking, but have to admit those started up when I started travel writing, as reference points more than lasting memories, if that makes sense. I suppose the way I best preserve my travel memories is to write an essay or story about the experience. The notes and photos don’t come even close to gelling the memories in my mind the way writing a narrative about them can. In a way, that’s also how I figure out how the experience changed me.

I can’t blog while I’m traveling! Sometimes I have to, but nothing crashes my traveling party like having to be connected to the Internet, and in that way connected to home and my “real” life.

]]> By: Alison Wellner http://perceptivetravel.com/blog/2009/09/22/capturing-travel-memories/comment-page-1/#comment-100466 Alison Wellner Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:52:52 +0000 http://perceptivetravel.com/blog/?p=2521#comment-100466 Hey Mark, I really admire the discipline of live blogging trips, I feel like I'm so in the thick of things when I'm traveling that I can't figure out what's just happened enough to blog about it! Hey Mark, I really admire the discipline of live blogging trips, I feel like I’m so in the thick of things when I’m traveling that I can’t figure out what’s just happened enough to blog about it!

]]> By: Mark Tisdale http://perceptivetravel.com/blog/2009/09/22/capturing-travel-memories/comment-page-1/#comment-100412 Mark Tisdale Tue, 22 Sep 2009 23:08:18 +0000 http://perceptivetravel.com/blog/?p=2521#comment-100412 I keep a blog, usually updating it while I'm more or less there (although that's failed to happen on a few recent trips), but re-reading my entries from the road absolutely put me right back there and conjure up more of the memories from those moments. I've always said I started blogging those moments so that years from now when the energy to go is gone, I'll still be able to relive these times again. As a side benefit, a lot of friends who don't travel have said that reading my posts is vicarious travel for them, so at least it isn't like being bolted to the sofa for a 5 hour slide show. ;-) While I do take a lot of photos, I don't gather so many souvenirs. I've been trying harder to be more minimalist and my main travel souvenir is the lowly fridge magnet. It takes up no space and yet it can remind me that I did indeed go to the top of the Empire State Building. :-) I keep a blog, usually updating it while I’m more or less there (although that’s failed to happen on a few recent trips), but re-reading my entries from the road absolutely put me right back there and conjure up more of the memories from those moments. I’ve always said I started blogging those moments so that years from now when the energy to go is gone, I’ll still be able to relive these times again. As a side benefit, a lot of friends who don’t travel have said that reading my posts is vicarious travel for them, so at least it isn’t like being bolted to the sofa for a 5 hour slide show. ;-)

While I do take a lot of photos, I don’t gather so many souvenirs. I’ve been trying harder to be more minimalist and my main travel souvenir is the lowly fridge magnet. It takes up no space and yet it can remind me that I did indeed go to the top of the Empire State Building. :-)

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