Tuesday Tip 6:

I started this Tuesday Tips section to answer some of the most common questions or comments I hear about our Map Journals ~

This week:

“My handwriting would spoil it”

Take inspiration from these beautiful scribbly gum tree markings

I don’t think you can ever argue with nature, when it comes to beauty

No matter how scrawly your handwriting is, there is still  a pattern to it and while when you start you may think it looks too un-perfect I can assure you that when all the boxes are filled there will be a unifying style that will actually bring the whole sheet together.

No matter how ‘messy’ (and self critically) you think at the time it may look, spontaneity speaks louder than words, and your quick scribbly jottings conveying the fun of the moment is what you will see in years to come – not that you’ve dotted the i or crossed the t

Tuesday Tip 4:

Often overheard upon first seeing a Map Journal –

‘Oh, if only I were going on a major trip, or doing the big lap?’

(i.e. travelling all the way around Australia)

Why, only if you’re doing a ‘big’ trip?

Aren’t annual holidays and last minute weekend breaks away to the beach just as much fun to remember?

How many times have you heard people say…

“‘We stayed at the most gorgeous little place, now… ummmm what was it called?”  

So, next time you’re heading off over the hills on hollers, decide to go on a spontaneous short sortie, or simply enjoy a long weekend away with the family…

take a Map Journal to arrow in the ‘where’ and jot down those names…

before you forget!  :)

Tuesday Tip 2:

Some of my most fun and memorable travel started on a spontaneous whim

With no time for preconceived notions to be formed, there are no expectations to live up to and, the experience can only be judged as it happens ~

Jotting spontaneous notes rather than planning and preening journal entries is the same!

By worrying about the perfect opening phrase, the essence of the moment can be totally missed in a contrived composition.

Unlike a conventional book type journal, Map Journals have no beginning, no middle nor end so entries can be made randomly, and spontaneously, in any one of the boxes that surround the map.

Feel elated about an amazing experience/sight? Jot down how you feel now while it is fresh and vibrant in your mind – The important thing is not to think about it – let spontaneity capture the moment and you’ll be forever connected to that time and place…

Outside the Wollumbin toilets, in amongst the leaf litter...

“The essence of pleasure is spontaneity” Germaine Greer