- Time of past OR future Camino
- Most years since 2012
I have been amazed at the detailed descriptions that some people can provide years after they have walked the camino. I assume that in most cases, they take photos and make notes in some format or other. How do you document your journeys, other than the thousands of phone/cameras files? (This builds on another recent thread about photo books.)
I have blogged (on my phone) almost daily on all of my caminos, which has sometimes been a chore. My blogs are not detailed accounts of the walking route, conditions, sights seen, pilgrims met, etc. The daily blogs reflect a bit of the physical walk and conditions, an entertaining observation or two, and a few representative photos. I try to make the text neutral so it could never worry anyone at home or offend someone who I've met, but still try to write so that the people who know me can recognize my "voice". But that means that there are a lot of interesting/fun/annoying incidents and people that I don't write about because they aren't suitable for public posting.
Now I am wondering if I should stop trying so hard to write for public viewing, and instead just write a diary with more detail about my routes. But then I ask myself "Why?" And then I ask myself "Why" about a lot of other things!
Have you used voice recording to capture notes while walking? Are you organized enough to synchronize those voice notes with photos?
My main documentation is the 20-30 page photo book I create soon after each camino. That has photos with virtually no text - a daily page or two with the destination, distance and date. I make letter-size soft cover books that are not so expensive and not too weighty either physically or in self-importance. They sit in a magazine box near my desk and generally I am the only person who looks at them. They are my main reference when I want to remember a particular stage, but I find that they are barely adequate to remind me of details such as others seem to remember.
It pleases me so much to look at this tidy collection of my photo books (not only my caminos).
I have blogged (on my phone) almost daily on all of my caminos, which has sometimes been a chore. My blogs are not detailed accounts of the walking route, conditions, sights seen, pilgrims met, etc. The daily blogs reflect a bit of the physical walk and conditions, an entertaining observation or two, and a few representative photos. I try to make the text neutral so it could never worry anyone at home or offend someone who I've met, but still try to write so that the people who know me can recognize my "voice". But that means that there are a lot of interesting/fun/annoying incidents and people that I don't write about because they aren't suitable for public posting.
Now I am wondering if I should stop trying so hard to write for public viewing, and instead just write a diary with more detail about my routes. But then I ask myself "Why?" And then I ask myself "Why" about a lot of other things!
Have you used voice recording to capture notes while walking? Are you organized enough to synchronize those voice notes with photos?
My main documentation is the 20-30 page photo book I create soon after each camino. That has photos with virtually no text - a daily page or two with the destination, distance and date. I make letter-size soft cover books that are not so expensive and not too weighty either physically or in self-importance. They sit in a magazine box near my desk and generally I am the only person who looks at them. They are my main reference when I want to remember a particular stage, but I find that they are barely adequate to remind me of details such as others seem to remember.
It pleases me so much to look at this tidy collection of my photo books (not only my caminos).