Most travel diaries fizzle. By day six of a big trip, people are struggling to recall what happened on days three, four, and five. They return home with mostly empty journals, or bland writing that fails to capture the full spirit of their journeys. Award-winning travel humorist Dave Fox comes to the rescue in this book that's both informative and irreverently funny. You'll learn to:
Bring destinations to life with bold details.
Splash those details quickly onto your pages so journaling doesn't gobble up your precious vacation time.
Elude your Inner Censor and write with confidence.
Weave together your outer and inner journeys, using unfamiliar places as a backdrop for self-discovery.
Dave shares his favorite journaling techniques, shows how to find time to write in the middle of an exciting trip, and infuses it all with a generous dose of his off-the-wall humor. Whether your journeys are weekend road trips or excursions around the world, this book will help transform you into a travel journaling superhero!
A vivid and thoughtfully written journal can be your most treasured souvenir. Dave Fox understands how journaling can help that great trip become a candy jar of memories that you can dip into for the rest of your life. And his book tells how. --Rick Steves, PBS TV host and author of Europe Through the Back Door
About the Author
Dave Fox started traveling the world at age seven, and he's been journaling ever since. Based in Seattle, Washington, he has lived in England, Norway, and Turkey, and visited more than 40 countries. His first book, Getting Lost: Mishaps of an Accidental Nomad, won the Erma Bombeck Writers Workshop Book Proposal Contest in 2004. The second edition was published by Inkwater Press in 2008. Dave works as a freelance writer, speaker, and international tour guide. His travel journaling classes have been recommended in the Wall Street Journal. He offers entertaining and informative presentations on a variety of topics for businesses and other organizations. He's a veteran tour guide for European travel guru Rick Steves, and also leads his own travel journaling tours. To contact Dave, or for more information about his work, please visit his websites: TRAVELJOURNALING.COM and DAVETHEFOX.COM.
Dave Fox is an award-winning travel and humor writer. He has lived in Norway, England, and Turkey, and visited nearly 50 countries on five continents. In July, 2011, he will move to Singapore.
"I'm fascinated with the psychology of travel," Dave says, "...with how we view ourselves when we're in a foreign place."
In 2004, Dave won the Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Book Proposal Contest sponsored by the University of Dayton, Ohio. His resulting collection of travel humor essays, "Getting Lost: Mishaps of an Accidental Nomad," was originally published in 2006 by AuthorHouse Books. A second, re-edited and improved edition was published in 2008 by Inkwater Press, along with Dave's second book, "Globejotting: How to Write Extraordinary Travel Journals (and still have time to enjoy your trip!)"
Following on the success of "Globejotting," Dave recently launched a new tour company, Globejotter Tours, which offers travel journaling and creative writing classes on tours in foreign countries. Dave accompanies every group, teaching participants how to write travel tales along the way. The company's first tour was a writing safari in Botswana in January, 2010. The next scheduled trip will visit southern Vietnam in October, 2010. Information is available at GlobejotterTours.com.
Dave is also a veteran Scandinavian tour guide for European travel expert Rick Steves. When he's home in Seattle, he also works for Bill Speidel's Underground Tour
A former news anchor for Wisconsin Public Radio, Dave has contributed to books by Rick Steves and Lonely Planet. His work has also appeared in travel magazines such as Transitions Abroad, Trips, Big World, and Silver Kris (Singapore Airlines' in-flight magazine), and in newspapers including the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Portland Oregonian, Dallas Morning News, and Wisconsin State Journal. He has appeared on the History Channel travel program, Weird U.S., as an authority on Scandinavian-American culture, and has been an opening speaker for Princess Märtha Louise of Norway.
Dave's travel journaling classes have been recommended in the Wall Street Journal. He is available to teach classes in travel journaling, humor writing, and a variety of other topics, and to deliver humorous keynotes that are both laughter-inducing and inspiring.
You can reach Dave via his websites: traveljournaling.com and davethefox.com. For information on his journaling and travel tale writing tours, please visit www.GlobejotterTours.com.
This review is from: Globejotting: How to Write Extraordinary Travel Journals (and still have time to enjoy your trip!) (Paperback)
I've always wanted to document my travels better but it never seems to work out. A few times, I have started a travel journal only to abandon it a few days in because I've forgotten to write so many days in a row or it was too much work. Dave Fox's approach to travel journaling is a real change. Something that is easy to implement and fun to do at the same time. It helps that the approach in the book is very light hearted and encouraging, so you feel that you really can write a few things down per day. I look forward to trying the technique out on my next trip.
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This review is from: Globejotting: How to Write Extraordinary Travel Journals (and still have time to enjoy your trip!) (Paperback)
Dave Fox adds a lot of humor in his instructions on how to travel journal. There are practice sessions throughout the book to help you get used to different writing techniques before your trip. I bought this book because of our planned trip to Egypt next spring. I want to be able to capture and remember every bit of this once in a lifetime opportunity. I now have many ideas of how I'll be able to do it. I used to journal all of the time but fell out of the habit; this book has inspired me to take it up again - and not just for traveling!
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This review is from: Globejotting: How to Write Extraordinary Travel Journals (and still have time to enjoy your trip!) (Paperback)
This book is accessible to everyone and is not an intimidating book on how to write. It's incredibly funny, informative, and offers very useful tips on how to bring life and feeling to your travel journals. You feel like Dave Fox is right there with you, a friend and guide on your travels. This book also opened my mind about how to travel and use the experiences as personal growth. I used to be so frustrated by the banality of my journals, but now they are richer in content, and I can always go back to them to relive my travels. The best part is, with the author's time-saving tips, I'm no longer a slave to my journal when I'm traveling.
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