Regardless of your cycling experience, you will find journaling an excellent way to record your travels. Your experiences may even make a unique and exciting story for a magazine article or a book.
When you record in your journal remember that personal observations will add life to factual information. How did you feel during and after you climbed the mountain pass? What were your expectations? Describe the scenery, the environment around you, your thoughts, humor, and expectations.
Relax during lunch and write for ten minutes or reflect at the end of the day, this is an excellent habit. Record your likes, dislikes, and milestones. Add news clippings, postcards, sketches, addresses of people that you meet, jazz up your journal.
Take a few minutes to stop and capture a moment with a photo. Include places you stopped at, subjects and locations that you experienced. Each picture can be a priceless vestige from a memorable trail or an epic journey. The only pictures you will regret are the ones you didn’t take.
Be consistent. Your notes and photos will make parts of your route easy to remember. You will thank yourself for years to come.
See you on the lane.