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Increase the Moisture in Your Hotel Room
- The air in the hotel room can be very dry, especially during the winter season in European countries (from my experience). Therefore, wet a few towels and place them on the bedside table next to where you are sleeping to increase the moisture in the air.
16-Sep-2001 Florence Leow ID345

Insist on Two Sets of Keys
- When renting a car, always insist on two sets of keys. We had guests who fell into the river when fishing and they lost the only set. It took about 6 hours to retrieve the guests, contact the rental car agency, drive 45 miles to the dealership to get another set, and drive them back to the car. If the rental agency won't give you an extra set, get one made at the nearest hardware store.
Fairhaven Inn, Bath, Maine
18-Dec-2003 Fairhaven Inn, Bath, Maine ID1256

Keep Notes
- Keep notes in a journal on what you do on a trip. When you get back home, place them in a 'Trip Notes File'. Label each file with the place and date, including brochures, etc. The notes are helpful if you want to go back to a B&B you liked or a restaurant; it's all there. Plus, they are great reading on a cold winter day, and you get your money's worth over and over again.
Seymour House Bed & Breakfast, South Haven, Michigan
18-Dec-2003 Seymour House Bed & Breakfast, South Haven, Michigan ID1277

Keep Photos Organized
- If you plan to take lots of photographs on your trip, mark the plastic film containers with a number. In your journal, put the number of that film container on the page. When you develop the film, if you note that same number on the developing-package, it will be loads easier to figure out where each of those rolls of pictures was taken.
1-Jan-2000 Jeffrey Widen ID1236

Keeping a Travel Journal?
- It's a fact: Invitations to read personal travel journals trigger obligatory sighs. If you like to write up your adventures on the road, do your family and friends (and yourself) a wonderful favor by practicing good technique:

In your first few paragraphs, create a scene that the reader will find compelling.
Immediately focus the reader on a character.
Then create a problem or conflict. Something should not go as expected. It can be large or small in scale, or even inside the character's mind. It is the resolution of this challenge that keeps people reading.
Vary your sentence patterns.
Get rid of 'passive voice (all conjugations of the 'to be' verb).
Create several sentences that do not start with a noun.
Add skillful metaphors and similes.
Wake them up with shock value.
Add humor.
Place the emphatic, comic, or dramatic words at the END of the sentence.
GET RID OF unnecessary words! Cut, cut, cut! This does not mean make your travel memoir short, but it means make every word work hard.
Study examples of good technique - and practice.

4-Aug-2005 Special Reports: How to Write Your Travel Memoirs ID1249

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