One of the best ways to live a fulfilled life is to invest in experiences instead of material things. Traveling gives you a sense of fulfillment that no designer bags or the latest gadget can fulfill.
However, travel experiences can also be fleeting. Because they last for a short while until the next adventure unfolds, you want to have the means to save these moments, which will later remind you later on of the happy memories you had during the trip.
Here are handy ways how you can save your travel memories with your loved ones:
1. Create a travel photo book
What better way to preserve your photos than a travel photo book? You can pick and collate photos that highlight your trip, especially moments considered once in a lifetime.
You can even create a narrative or story from your travel photo collection. Creating a travel photo book is fun since you can customize it depending on your chosen design or theme.
It can be a collection of all your latest tropical adventures, the mountains you’ve climbed, the beautiful sunsets you’ve chased, or all the landscape photos from the places you’ve visited. You can even repurpose it later on as a mothers day gift book for other special occasions. There are endless possibilities!
As soon as you print your photo books, you can show them to your loved ones, and who knows, you might also inspire them to make their own.
2. Make a short travel video
Because of smartphones, videos have become almost a daily part of our lives (and travels, too!) While a picture can certainly be a thousand words, capturing the moment in video captures the moment’s emotions, sounds, colors, beauty- everything!
There are numerous apps or programs that you can download to create a short film about your trip. It’s almost like a movie wherein you and your loved ones are the stars!
3. Write a daily journal & travel book
Keeping and writing in a journal is one of the best things you can have, especially when traveling. People who regularly write can preserve their memories in the most befitting way compared with other methods.
If you’re an avid writer, you can document the most memorable things that happened to you that day, along with related photographs that can easily take you back to memory lane.
3. Send postcards to yourself/family/friends
Sending postcards is also a great way to capture travel memories. In the same way, you can also write and send it to yourself so that you can get it as soon as you come home!
You can easily send postcards online and customize them with your travel photos instead of those that a random stranger takes.
If you want a postcard with a unique stamp, you can send it to your home address via a post office while traveling. That way, you’ll have something to look forward to back home.
4. Make a scrapbook
If you want to get creative, you can keep receipts, maps, plane tickets, and other simple yet memorable items that will sum up your trip.
Not to mention, scrapbooking gives you plenty of creative freedom. You can design it how you want to, and you don’t have to worry about going over the top!
5. Blog your travel moments
If you’re a good writer and take excellent photographs, you can certainly blog about your travels! Blogging is a great way for you to share travel tips while inspiring like-minded individuals.
You can start your own travel blog and write about your trips’ good and bad experiences, highs and lows. You can even share handy tips with fellow travelers here and there. Everything in your travel counts, so make sure you don’t leave all the smallest details in your trip.
6. Create a memory box
You can add several photos of your most memorable travel moments in a memory box. Here, you can add memories from previous vacations and countries you’ve visited and fill them up with souvenirs, coins, pictures, tickets, trinkets, and so much more!
7. Turn photographs into a mug, coaster, magnet, card, calendar
Another great way to ensure that you’ll preserve your most memorable travel moments is printing them in a mug, coaster, calendar, etc.! You can even print them as a fridge magnet to be reminded of these moments every time you open the fridge! You can also print them on wood or canvas and hang them in your place.
Over to You
We cherish all the memories we have with our loved ones. Recalling small details and sensations in your trip can be challenging as time goes by.
Thus, it would help if you had the plan to preserve these memories so that you’ll never forget them. By immortalizing your travels, you can ensure that your trip is well-documented and can last a lifetime.
