Travel is not worth recording because it is interesting, but it becomes interesting after recording.

Want to travel, but don't know where to go? When traveling, I went to all the places I should go, but I felt like I didn't go anywhere. I went to many places, but my memory was limited and my impression was blurred everywhere.

This is a problem that many people may encounter when talking about travel. It can be seen that many people like to travel, but the result of travel is not satisfactory.

Japanese pocket master Xuanzhi Kono said that "walking with your feet and recording with your hands" in a beautiful trip is not to take this photo, but to see the scenery that others can't see, so that "what you have experienced" and "what you are about to experience" become lifelong gifts!

The recording method he said refers to the travel notebook, and he elaborated the detailed production process in the book A Complete Guide to Travel Notebooks. Even Xiao Bai, who has never done it before, can make his own travel notebook after reading the introduction.

1. What is a travel account?

You record what you have seen, heard and experienced in other places. This is a travel notebook.

This is the definition given in the book. For this definition, Xiao Ye Xuan, one of the authors, emphasized that what he said "what he saw, heard and experienced when he left home" included the following:

Soak in hot springs and sip wine at tourist attractions.

I take a walk near my home.

Embrace nature in the mountains or the sea.

When I was on a business trip, I explored strange streets in a foreign land.

Therefore, spending a lot of money abroad is not just a trip. As long as you start from home, walk around from the perspective of tourists and record your current mood, you can create your own travel account page by page.

Second, what does a travel account mean to us?

First of all, the hand account can completely retain fleeting experiences.

We know that memory is completely unreliable. Even if you can remember yesterday's dinner, the dinner the day before yesterday has long been forgotten.

A handbook can help us remember our travel experiences. It is more pleasant to remember clearly the contents and details we saw than to vaguely remember "that place is really beautiful"

Secondly, the decision to keep a diary will make you consciously have a unique vision.

Once we make a decision to go back and write something, we will unconsciously prepare ourselves to find something interesting and some bright spots. After all, everyone wants to write about some unique experiences that are not in the guidebook.

Therefore, no matter what kind of experience, we don't want to admit defeat, and we all want to pick up interesting things that resonate with our feelings, even if only a little.

Xiao Ye Xuanzhi summed up the above two points in one sentence, that is:

Not "because I feel happy, I wrote my account", but "because I wrote my account, I can experience happiness better"

This kind of happiness varies from person to person, such as:

With the writer's mind, take the handle as a companion for traveling and walking.

Write down happy experiences in your notebook as future memories.

Be able to express your sense of accomplishment in appropriate sentences.

Reread the notebook and immerse yourself in memories.

DIY manual, there is a kind of joy to finish the work.

In short, you will be happy because of the record.

Third, how to make a travel account?

Now we know the benefits of hand-written accounts, but when it comes to doing hand-written accounts, I believe there will still be many people who are too troublesome to resist.

Please don't worry, said author Xiao Ye Bo Zhi. As long as you record anything when you are away from home, even a little, it will become your unique account. In addition, the travel notebook introduced here is not a work for others to see. In the final analysis, it is only the product of your own entertainment, and you don't need artistic inspiration.

Never take a notebook as a burden from the beginning. This is the first stage of our psychology.

For how to make a travel manual, Kono's proposition can be divided into three stages: before travel, during travel and after travel.

Before going out: set up a vision with your hand account.

How to build a vision? That is, collect the places you want to go in your hand. On the one hand, we can solve the problem of where to travel, on the other hand, we can have a preliminary understanding of the places we yearn for.

Here, I don't want everyone to make a thorough investigation of the destination before departure, like a reporter, but I suggest that you always reserve some places you want to go or things you are interested in and keep them in your pocket.

For example, if you see a photo in a magazine and think, "This is really beautiful", you can cut it out and paste it in your notebook. If the travel experiences described by people who have been there interest you, write down the name of that city.

In other words, going or not is another matter. Anything that appeals to you can be kept in your pocket. There is no need to classify when recording, just record it in a book from front to back.

Maybe your actual travel order is completely different from the recorded order, and even becomes another set of manuals. Don't mind too much. Recording the places you want to go is an act of expanding your curiosity and deepening your impression, while recording the places you have been is an act of adding fun to what you have experienced. There is no need to forcibly unify the order of the two.

During the trip: collect information with your heart and write a memo on the way.

(1) Collect materials.

In order to make notebooks interesting in the future, the most important thing is to carefully collect materials on the way of traveling and walking, among which paper products are the first.

The so-called "paper products" are leaflets, ticket stubs, billboards in shops, brochures in stations or airports, etc.

To collect these materials, you must first choose a collection bag and take it with you. You can set one pocket of your coat as a collection bag, or put a folder or envelope in your backpack.

(2) Write a memo on the way.

In addition to collecting paper products, seals and other materials, there is also a kind of handwritten information that you should prepare on your way out, that is, writing a "memorandum on the way".

For example, every time the author goes out, he will put a stack of business card-sized post-it notes in his pocket, walk around and write down what he saw and felt at that time. When I get back to my hotel or home, I will combine it with other collected materials and put it in A5' s notebook. Finally, I will make some supplements and touches.

So, what should I write in the memo on the way?

Where to go, what to see, think about yourself ... even if you walk in the Woods of the park, you can write down the things that suddenly occur to you.

According to the author, doing so not only makes you feel that you are not only traveling to see something rare, nor just walking for fun, but also having a meaningful experience.

In the book, the author divides the recorded contents into the following two categories:

Memo recording "objective facts"

Memo recording "the voice of the supervisor"

"objective facts" are things that happen objectively, such as arrangements, food you have tasted and so on. For example, "I arrived at Kanazawa Station at a certain time", "I had Bai Zi rice for lunch" and "The tour guide introduced such anecdotes while explaining famous paintings" and so on.

"Subjective voice" refers to all kinds of things you feel, consider and recall, and it is based on your own things, such as "I'm hungry, so I'm not interested in going around", "Bai Zi's food is light and hungry", "Is the tour guide telling the truth" and so on.

In addition, the author suggests that these two kinds of records can be marked differently, for example, circles can represent "objective facts" and five-pointed stars represent "subjective voices". For example:

While I was resting in the waiting area, my passing aunt gave me oranges.

☆ It is worthy of being the four kingdoms, which is really good for tourists!

In this way, if you just want to review the itinerary in the future, you just need to look at the one that starts with a circle. This is an easy-to-understand and convenient way to write and read.

After the trip: supplement, record and make a notebook that can stimulate reading desire more.

From now on, when I come back from my trip, I will finally enter the stage of recording my account. There is no need to make any preparations at this stage. As long as the materials are collected during travel or walking, the hand account is 80% completed.

In other words, all you have to do now is paste the materials in your notebook.

Cut out the required parts with scissors, make a little layout, and then paste. In just a few steps, we can make a notebook filled with all kinds of newspaper clippings and commemorative tickets, and filled with recorded words with a strong sense of the scene.

The author calls this step "instant manual account", which is mainly used to distinguish it from "full manual account" which takes some time to complete.

When making Instant Manual, the author suggests that the following points should be paid attention to:

Classify the collected data to prevent scattering, such as arranging them in chronological order. There are two main points in cutting materials: to cut them into small pieces and cut them along the outline. The manuals are arranged in chronological order, and the right side and bottom should be left blank, which is convenient for thinking about some things later.

The next step is to make a "full version of the account". The so-called "full version account" mainly supplements and polishes the "instant version account" before switching back to "daily mode". The author suggests that the best supplementary time is about a week after returning from a trip.

What do you want to add? The author suggests that it is essential to summarize the list.

You can make a list of the historical sites you visited that day, or summarize "Top3 of this trip" and "Summary of things you want to eat again". This kind of arrangement and summary is very interesting and meaningful-the sense of reality of travel will be enhanced.

In addition, you can also write down your feelings after you come back and your questions before you travel in your notebook, and make this travel route and stick it in your notebook to make the whole trip more intuitive.

There is a sentence in the book: "Never lose the ability to feel fun!"

No matter how rare natural phenomena you see during your trip and how good hotels you stay in, it is meaningless if you don't feel anything. On the contrary, if you have the ability to feel fun, even walking around will be a wonderful experience.

The so-called travel account and walking account are a display of "the ability to feel fun".

May you keep the ability to feel fun at any time in this impetuous society!