Why Travel Tips

One of my favorite authors, Toni Morrison, once said “If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.” Well, this isn’t exactly a book, but idea still stands. I have chosen to focus on travel tips as my topic for the purposes of WSU’s COM 210 class because I’ll be sharing information that I wish I knew when I first started traveling. These are tips that I often share with friends, family, and my students, but would now like to able to share with them with a larger audience.

What Kind of Travel Tips

For each of the three unit projects I plan to address some of the travel questions I get asked most frequently. For example, for Unit 1 I hope to create a project with Adobe Photoshop that shows some of the ways to stay safe while traveling. For Unit 2 I hope to create a logo with Adobe Illustrator for my Love of Lost travel blog. For Unit 3 I hope to use audio storytelling with Adobe Audition to discuss ethical issues related to travel, like shopping local, the treatment of animals for tourism, voluntourism, and ways of traveling more meaningfully and sustainably. And for Unit 4 I hope to use Adobe Premiere to create a video showing some tips for minimalist packing.

How I’ll Share

To collect the materials I’ll need for these units I’ll be going through some of my old travel photos, as well as taking some new photos, and all new audio and video content. While my topic is focused on international travel, the specific tips can be demonstrated from home. For example, the video showing minimalist packing tips can be created anywhere, as normally packing is done at home for an international trip anyway.

The following are inspirations for my upcoming projects. The first is a graphic is from another travel blog focused on safety specifically for women traveling alone. The graphic can be found half way through the post, and shows multiple safety tips along a wavy line. Another inspiration is a website with a logo section dedicated to labyrinths and mazes. For the Love of Lost logo I’d like to incorporate a labyrinth of some sort, and I have found this link to have a lot of different ideas. The third inspirational link is a video showing a vlogger’s tips for packing a suitcase. I like the way this vlogger set up the packing video, as opposed to a lot of other packing videos that are more focused on the vlogger than the packing.

Looking forward to sharing my tips.

Let’s get lost!

Courtney