Keep a Travel Blog While You See the World

A travel blog is an enjoyable way to keep an ongoing record of your journey. You'll have plenty of company with your literary efforts. Long before the internet, many great writers used a similar practice with personal diaries as they traveled the world. Some of the more well-known were by Charles Darwin, Mark Twain, Samuel Pepys, Alexis de Tocqueville and Saint Paul.

Your own travel blog may not become famous literature, but there are certain other benefits you'll get by adding interesting notes to it every day.

1. By writing in a daily online blog, that one source lets family and friends all follow your itinerary as you travel. It saves you time from having to write basically the same information to many people.

2. You can spice up your blog by sharing photos and video you've shot during your daily adventures. Don't just point the lens at the sights. Get someone to shoot some scenic views of you to add to your blog.

3. Your daily blog can assure people at home of your personal security. You may appreciate suggestions on keeping safe from the folks at home, especially those who've visited areas where you plan to proceed.

4. When traveling in a foreign country, posting just one daily blog is much more economical than paying high rates to contact people at home with cell phone calls.

5. Your blog can invite quick responses from the home folks when you ask for advice about restaurants, hotels, tourist spots and other features of the next leg of your journey.

6. If you write your daily blog with skill and humor, you may be able to put it to paper later and get a high grade and credit for it in your creative writing class. If you think it's really good, you may sell your interesting story to an online or print magazine.

7. By publishing a detailed and interesting blog, your experiences could help others who'll later be traveling to the same places.

If you write a daily travel blog, you may never become as famous as Mark Twain. However, the benefits of doing it can be fun, while keeping the folks at home informed of your wanderings.