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While digital tools allow us to capture footage of our travels like never before, there will always be something personal and immediate about drawing, writing, and collecting artifacts – ticket stubs, flyers, whatever it is – in our journals.

Matador publishes excerpts and scans from journals of artists and travelers around the world. Check them out below.

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Reflecting on taking detailed notes while traveling.

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Writer, photographer, and artist Candace Rardon opens up her sketch book.

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After fifteen days' wandering I believe that if happiness can be learned, Laos must be...

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A 3 week trip to the southwestern part of China, including Yunnan and Guangxi, with...

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Irreverent doodles, scraps of narrative and sketches of the objects around me help me to...

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"Cut lists for carpentry projects, telephone numbers, directions to surf spots, maps of...

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I am now up to my 6th [journal] in around a year and a half.

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#7. "'Song lyrics, plans for upright bass stand, idea for yard statue using discarded...

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"It’s the last night at Keekorok. I’m not quite ready to leave Kenya."

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Tony Robinson-Smith recently returned from a trip where he, his wife, and ten students...

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"When in France do like the French do: pop open some wine and take it all in. . ."

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"through the quiet and dark streets of callao toward the neon casinos and thoroughfares...

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"Took a local bus into the Andes, west of Mendoza to Puente del Inca and Los Penitentes....

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A new call for sketches, short bits of text, or journal entries in their original,...