My travel bud­dies (as I’ve now decided to call them) and I have decided to do a US road trip… prob­a­bly in 2010. It will be a coast-to-coast affair highly influ­enced, no doubt, by this great time-lapse and Dave Gorman’s lat­est adven­ture. I can’t wait, but com­mon sense says that I/we must.

This morn­ing I’ve been think­ing about how to doc­u­ment such a trip — it’s an impor­tant con­sid­er­a­tion, and one not to be taken lightly. MetaFil­ter saves the day once again, and brings up some inge­nious ideas on doc­u­ment­ing a road trip.

I’m con­sid­er­ing two dif­fer­ent approaches:

  • A hand-written jour­nal packed with notes, draw­ings and ticket stubs.
  • A large, folded, lam­i­nated map anno­tated with pic­tures, the odd note, and with the route marked.

Obvi­ously I’ll be tak­ing my cam­era, but should I invest in some of that roman­tic Polaroid film now that they’re not pro­duc­ing it any more, or should I even­tu­ally get ’round to buy­ing that Holga I’ve always wanted? Or should I do noth­ing, let­ting my mem­ory of the event grad­u­ally fade, yet untainted by the pres­sures of ‘not want­ing to miss anything’?

via Life­hacker