Matt and I are headed out on quite a road trip this spring, we’ll be spending two weeks driving around Ireland. A trip like this takes a bit of planning. We have lots of maps and guidebooks. We’ve spent time reading blogs and websites. It is a lot of information in different places. Matt suggested what we needed was one notebook with all the basic information complied for each day in it. So, I created our Road Trip Journal for a dollar store notebook.

Road Trip Journal

This is a really customizable project with whatever you have on hand, but here is how I set mine up.
Supplies:

• spiral notebook
• tabs
• glue
• maps
• construction paper
• scissors
• pens

I divided the journal using post it tabs into each day of the trip.

On the front page of each day I glues a small map of the area we would be traveling. This is not a detailed map, just an overview I printed online. We’ll have our GPS for more detailed instructions. I also included our B&B or hotel confirmation number and phone number on the page as well as any other reservations such as restaurants or tours.

On the second page of the day, I put a list of things we would like to vist along the drive and in the destination city. I’ve added details like opening hours or what is at a particular site or store. We’ll have our guide books for more details, but this will give us a quick overview of what we wanted to do that day.

Then I left a blank page for us to add notes of things we want to remember from that day.

On the back inside cover of the journal I added a pocket to keep things like ticket stubs or other paper momentos.

This would be a great project to do with your kids to get them involved in planning a trip. Let them create their own journal of your summer vacation. Leave a few more pages blank in each day’s section for them to draw pictures of what they see along the way.