Dear Liza,
Your Auntie Bridgett Spicer is an amazing artist. Not only can she create delightful comics like her “Auntie Beeswax” and wonderful paintings and collages, but she can draw and vacation at the same time. Here is a page from her sketchbook of our trip.
Her brain works like that.
Mine does not. I made a really cool cover for my travel journal for our last trip to Europe,
but am only now (three weeks after we got home) finishing up my account of our journey. Here is a page showing our train ride from Amsterdam to Utrecht.
I started with good intentions, but then it just got away from me.
I happily sacrificed journaling time for time spent with family in wondrous operas, delightful museums, and fabulous gardens.
So now I’m catching up, and I’m glad I waited. Not only is my Journal a more interesting synthesis of the journey, with my own sketches and all the sorts of paper you collect on a trip, but I am getting to re-live the whole experience!
It’s like watching my favorite movie all over again.
Love,
Grandma Judy
Dear Liza 