Scott and I kept a 5″ x 8″ travel notebook in Italy. We worked it almost daily as we traveled, finding time in cafes or on benches. But we had the most fun with Travel Flow Charts, illustrating certain common travel situations. The first one concerns travel with a partner.
It’s amazing how the other person becomes reasonable, and sulking silence vanishes. The next two charts are pieces we tried to fit in to a larger diagram, but couldn’t. They’re self explanatory.
I know some of you out there have subsisted on strange food during gaps in travel. Scott sucked on hard barley balls while walking around Annapurna. Crackers, the new hard tack. And now on to address exhaustion:
We didn’t spend all our time making charts.
Here’s an Etruscan boar I drew in the Villa Giulia in Rome. I named him Oinkos.
We did get analytical with this Venn diagram. We wanted to do as many things as possible that we couldn’t do at home, and to appreciate the strange world in front of us, like live eels.
But is it art? Probably not, but is certainly is travel.
Saltworkstudio | Suzanne Edminster 
Thank you, Suzanne…You obviously had a wonderful trip!! Thank you for sharng!!…Lisa Black
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My sketchbook was primitive, but brought so much pleasure! Good to hear from you, Lisa.
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Thank you, Suzanne…I can sense your great pleasure in making your journal. Loved seeing it….Lisa
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To sulking silence!
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Sulking silence, that staple of misery! You understand.
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Fantastic stuff!
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There’s more where that came from. Maybe. Thanks, U.M.!
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My suggestion: the Palmer method.
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My suggestion: friendly, yet unprintable.
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You certainly have captured the real flow of travel with another person – I would definitely call that art. A good chuckle because I recognize it all!
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