Plain Lab · journal
Travel Journal
Notes, prompts, and a run of unruled pages for the ticket stub or the sketch a photograph never remembers.
Specification
- Trim
- 148 × 210 mm · 5.827 × 8.268 in
- Pages
- 100
- Leaves
- 50
- Sheets
- 25
- Signatures
- 5 × 20pp
- Spine
- 5.72 mm
- Paper
- white
- Ruling
- lined
- Ruling pitch
- 9.17 mm · 26.00 pt
- Rows per page
- 18
A photograph remembers what a place looked like. It does not remember the drawing you almost started on the train, or the ticket stub you meant to keep, and a run of unruled pages toward the back of this book exists for exactly that gap.
Most of the book is plain lined notes: where you went, what it cost, what was worth remembering by the time you sat down to write it. A separate run of prompted pages is set aside for the places that earned more than a line.
It carries no itinerary template and books nothing for you. It is somewhere to keep the version of the trip that a phone's photo roll does not, which is usually the smaller half of it.
What is inside
- Notes
- 51pp
- Plain lined pages for the ordinary record: where you went, what it cost, what was worth remembering.
- Prompts
- 24pp
- A prompted page for the places that earned more than a line.
- Sketch
- 12pp
- Unruled pages for a drawing, a rubbing, a ticket taped in, whatever a line can't hold.
- Reference
- 13pp
- Conversions worked from definitions, plus emergency numbers checked against two sources.
The film
Page by page
A vertical film from our own bench — this page contacts nobody's server to play it, and downloads nothing until you press play.
Real pages
Made at the Hibrkraft bindery, Bogor · about the maker
Books that sit alongside it
- Hajj and Umrah JournalWorks alongsideshares personal-writing, travel
- Travel InsertWorks alongsideshares travel
Questions
What are the sketch pages for?
Unruled space for a drawing, a rubbing, a taped-in ticket, or anything else a lined page won't hold.
What do the prompted pages ask?
What made a place worth the detour, what nearly went wrong, what you'd tell someone going next. Not every stop needs one filled in.
How big is it?
A5, 148 x 210 mm, 100 pages, 5.72 mm across the spine.
Is it dated?
No. Start it on whichever trip you're already on.
Does it include maps or an itinerary?
No. It carries no itinerary template and books nothing. The notes pages are plain, for whatever you actually did.
Many have also left us written directions for making dials of these kinds for travellers, which can be hung up.
