travel notebooks

i have had a craving for adventure for about two years now, and i decided to satisfy some of it this summer. every tuesday, i will post a 'travel tuesday' post with pictures of my recent adventures. i have a list of all the places i want to attempt to make it to this summer, and i have two notebooks to help me accomplish this. i do this simply so that i can document my adventures and look back on them.

first, i have a professional softcover moleskine. this is the perfect size notebook to slip into a backpack on an adventure. i also really like the soft cover, because it's a lot easier for me to write, and the book opens flat. when i go to new places, i try to get a postcard if possible and tape it into the notebook. underneath the postcard i write in the notebook about my experiences. some places, like beaches, don't have postcards available so i just write a short excerpt on the page.

i recently got the national parks passport. it comes with a map that includes all the national parks on it. the passport is broken into regions, and it lists every national park in that regional which you can receive 'cancellations' for visiting. there are also stamp collections you can get, which come with a stamp for each region and a national stamp. i want to eventually fill my passport with cancellations from every national park!