For Each Excursion, A Different Logbook

Depending on what kind of excursion you're planning, you will need different equipment and you will make different observations. For example, strolling down the streets of a city involves different kinds of shoes, of baggage or of maps than climbing a mountain! The same can be said about the excursion notebook.

Exploration involves the personal discovery of an unfamiliar place, or to a destination where you have never been. With this type of excursion, you may want to write down any information that will help you reach a specific trip-related goal, or on the other hand, find your way back!

Travels are, in general, longer trips to a far-away, pre-determined destination. Notebooks in these cases often involve narratives of day to day activities in order for you to remember and share every with others upon return. Travel journals are also an excellent way of remembering that rare flower, wonderful marketplace or haunting street music.

Observation excursions are usually of a more specialized nature because they planned around specific activities. For example, if you decide to collect tree leaves in the forest to make a herbarium, than you will need an observation notebook suitable for logging the specific data relevant to your activity. In such a case, you might indicate the location of a tree, it's environment, height and trunk diameter, and health...

Leisure excursions are generally shorter outings with purely entertaining goals! In this case, you would create what can be called a leisure notebook. In it, you could list all the restaurants you want to try, and them rate them. Such observations can be applied to any sort of leisure destination, be they beaches, amusement parks, campgrounds... A leisure notebook can also be used to describe the relationships with all the fascinating people you meet.