Ready to go - USA Journal

I want to use this to record details of my trip; there are nooks and crannies to store notes, drawings, receipts - and photos when I come back home and print them.

I have not seen my son and daughter in law since October 2009, so I am very excited about this but so sorry my husband is not fit enough to come with me.

The last time I went to USA I collected all sorts of ephemera and notebooks, but I never actually collated them, so I have decided not to repeat that.

I have used a notebook with lots of pages removed and duck tape to make it into a text block inside the cover which has maps of UK and my US destination.

I have used a thatsjuspenny travel journal digi-kit and added details of my Heathrow hotel, flight details with transfers and info on how to pick up my hire car, cellphone numbers etc.

Going to America - Journal in progress

I'm driving to Heathrow airport, parking at a hotel there, catching a flight to Chicago, another one to  Saginaw and picking up a car and driving to Mount Pleasant!

I start off from Lincolnshire...

and end up in Michigan...

I have found vintage prints of Mount Pleasant

I haven't decided what to use as the Journal yet, though it is going to use justthatpenny's travel journal digi-kit.

I have got an old book with the text block removed or 2 notebooks with signatures that can be taken out.
I was thinking about having a looseleaf postbound version, or a notebook with lots of pockets to store memorabilia and to make notes.

this is a little notebook...

and this is A4...


I will use the maps as covers...

So watch this space!!