About Our Blog - Journey Jottings

Founder and creator of Journey Jottings, Linda Fairbairn

Linda Fairbairn ~ Founder of Journey Jottings

Welcome to Journey Jottings ~

Holidays and travel are full of amazing experiences but, that’s only the half of it ~

Spending time with those memories is like taking a marvellous mini-break…

IF you can remember them!

This blog offers tips and tricks for

simply

*highlighting your holiday adventures*… forever

by using my ideas I’ll take your reminiscing to new horizons, wherever you care to roam across the globe.
and by using my Journey Jottings Map Journals when travelling in and around Australia I’ll have your trips simply summarised on a single sheet.

Hello ~ I’m Linda Fairbairn

and here are My 3 best kept travel secrets.

If you love holiday travel (which is why you’re here – right?!) there’s also:

Inspiration for where to travel next –
My love of outback Australia features in many posts – I love the expansiveness of landscape… its plants and unique animals.
But I also love discovering wild and woolly places beyond Australian shores and share with you their beauty.
How to make the most of your memories with doodle drawings and story-maps
Fun interviews with other travellers taking a peek inside their journals to see how they do it!

So, Who is Linda Fairbairn?

Here are a couple of posts with more info (if you’re that keen!):

13 things you may not know about me… Nor be likely to ask
An interview by yTravelBlog

I’ve always been taken by this quote from Sir Francis Chichester , the first person to sail single-handedly around the world via the clipper route in 1967

“To a man with imagination, a map is a window to adventure.”

To me, a map is a window to distant horizons.

I love horizons.

They beckon from across landscapes that rise and fall across the world.

I love landscape.

Hewn by climate over eons of time, this global environmental sculpture appears from afar like a crazy patchwork of regional textures and tones sewn together by waterways and dry creek beds; yet close up, the transgression from one locale to another feels more seamless as the vegetation transpires from lush verdant greens to dry spiky ochres.

I love maps ~

Which via lines and symbols snapshot entire 3D landscapes succinctly onto a single 2D sheet.

There’s nothing more enticing than unfolding a map of a previously visited area and being taken back to places and times past.

Most people think of maps as being solely navigational, but for me:

maps evoke nostalgia for the past…

and flaunt far away places that taunt for the future.

This blog reflects my loves ~

heading over horizons on holiday,
observing vignettes of landscape adorned with flora and camouflaged fauna and…
maps for highlighting your holiday adventures ~

Here’s 101 ways to use your Australia Map Journal for starters 🙂

Join me on this journey