A travel journal, or road journal or travelogue , is an initially blank book carried by a traveler for the purpose of documenting a journey. Clippings, tokens, or tickets may be included as they are collected. The journal may also include notes written by acquaintances. Some journals feature hand-drawn illustrations, or even watercolors, of friends and places. A travelogue may also contains details of bad experiences. Since the popularization of the World Wide Web, digital travel journals called travel blogs have become commonplace. Drawing is one way of making an image: it is the process of making marks on a surface by applying pressure from or moving a tool on the surface. ... Watercolor is a painting technique making use of water-soluble pigments that are either transparent or opaque and are formulated with gum to bond the pigment to the paper. ...

In popular culture

In the movie Dances with Wolves, Lieutenant John Dunbar keeps a journal to document his observations of American Indians. Jack Kerouac's On the Road is a stream of consciousness novel written largely as a travel journal based on the spontaneous road trips of Kerouac and his friends across mid-century America. Jonathan Swift's 1726 Gulliver's Travels is a satirical novel parodying the "travellers' tales" literary sub-genre that was immensely popular at that time. Geoffrey Chaucer's 14th century The Canterbury Tales, mostly a collection of unrelated stories, is interspersed with details of a group pilgrimage from Southwark to Canterbury. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... On the Road book cover On the Road is a novel by Jack Kerouac, published by Viking Press in 1957. ... Events George Friderich Handel becomes a British subject. ... Gulliver Exhibited to the Brobdingnag Farmer by Richard Redgrave Gullivers Travels (1726, amended 1735) is a novel by Jonathan Swift that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of the travellers tales literary sub-genre. ... This 14th-century statue from south India depicts the gods Shiva (on the left) and Uma (on the right). ... Canterbury Tales Woodcut 1484 The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century (two of them in prose, the rest in verse). ... Pilgrim at Mecca In religion and spirituality, a pilgrimage is a long journey or search of great moral significance. ...

Travel blog

Online travelogues are travel diaries or journals featuring detailed descriptions of the travels of ordinary netizens. They are often called travel blogs, with the word "blog" being a contracted form of "web log." Travelers often share photos, write stories, and update family and friends on their location from around the world. They are often composed and published while their authors are still traveling, using public Internet stations and laptops. Content can often be toggled between being public or private, depending on the level of privacy required, and whether the user would like the information available for public searching. Mapping functionality can also outline a trip and offer a graphic visualisation of how the trip was undertaken. A Netizen (a portmanteau of Internet and citizen) [also known as a cybercitizen] is a person actively involved in online communities. ... It has been suggested that Online diary be merged into this article or section. ... The word mapping has several senses: In mathematics and related technical fields, it is some kind of function: see map (mathematics). ...

Travel blogs provide a platform for researching destinations as they offer real-world travel experiences undertaken by individual travellers and offer a focused and interactive way of sharing travel experiences within the framework of a like-minded travel community.

One of the web's first online diaries was "A Hypertext Journal" (1996) by artists Karen Guthrie and Nina Pope, who followed the route of 18th century travellers Boswell & Johnson's "Tour of the Western Isles" whilst responding to ongoing requests and intractions with their remote online audience. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... (17th century - 18th century - 19th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 18th century refers to the century that lasted from 1701 through 1800. ...

See also

• Travel literature
• Travel survey
• Traffic reporting

Travel literature is literature which records the people, events, sights and feelings of an author who is touring a foreign place for the sake and pleasure of travel. ... A travel survey (or travel diary or travel behavior inventory) is a survey of individual travel behavior. ... A traffic report is an element of a radio program that informs the listeners as to the state of roads within the broadcast area. ...

External links

• 'A Hypertext Journal' Online travelogue following Pope & Guthrie's journey to the Western Isles of Scotland.

• Andy of HoboTraveler.Com'10 Years of continous wandering the planet and in wonder. 76 countrie and continually is exploring. One of Forbes.com Top Five Travel Blogs. About.com, Guardian Blog watch, this is a true travelogue, diary, online blog complete with photos. Andy of HoboTraveler.com has just returned from West Africa, visiting Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Benin, and Niger. In the past he has visited Iraq, and other hot spots, He likes to fly to where current events is happening and witness.