5 Ways to Document Your Family Travels to Display, Share and Remember Them
If you visit our home, our family travel memories are all around you. Photos are blown up on the walls. Albums from recent family travels are in baskets close to the couch. There are posters of our favorite places down the hall. We love going on family trips because of the memories they create and I love having these memories surrounding us all year round.
When you get home do you have hundreds of photos on your phone or camera? Once you have them uploaded onto your computer – what do you do next? Do you save them? Share them? Display them?
Below are the 5 things I do more frequently with our family travel memories. They are easy and usually quick, but they all go a long way towards preserving these precious family travel memories.
Also Read: How to Capture Your Family Travels Better
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1. Create a Photo Wall
There are photos all over my home. The biggest photo wall though is in my living room (pictured above). It makes me so happy when I glance up from a book or a meal in the adjacent dining room.
All you need:
- Variety of Frames (Mine are all from IKEA)
- Photos in matching variety of sizes.
- Some nails and a hammer.
2. Make a Travel Poster (or Series)
I was just introduced to these gorgeous Travel Posters from Just Go Travel Studios and I’m obsessed. They have a range of products from postcards and posters to itineraries.
The travel posters can be ordered premade from their site, but you also have the option to have them custom make a poster for you based on one of your personal family travel photos.
I made a poster from our Spring Break 2019 trip down the coast of California. JustGo was so easy to work with and they gave me lots of freedom to make decisions (and change my mind) so that I would be happy with the finished product. I think it turned out gorgeous.
If you want to check out their products, head over to justgotravelstudios.com and use the code ERINBUHR for 10% off.
3. Print Your Instagram Shares
I do this all year round, not just for trips, but I LOVE how easy Chatbooks makes it for me to print out my photos. With Chatbooks you have two options –
1. Set up an ongoing photo book series. I do this for my personal IG account. This autobuilds albums for me with my photos and captions from Instagram. You can also set this up to make books around a specific hashtag instead. It sends me an email when a new book is ready so I can check it over and make edits if I wish and then it mails out a new book.
2. For travel, you can either set up a hashtag and have Chatbooks autopull pictures to build a photo book. Or you can create your own simple albums afterwards by uploading photos.
Either way you get these adorable little books to flip through and remember your family travel memories.
Give CHATBOOKS a try! You won’t believe how simple it is!
4. Make an Album or Scrapbook
Scrapbooks were a passion of mine for a while. They became too time consuming for me once I had kids to make on a regular basis, but I still find time to make them when we go on a bigger family trip. Iceland, California Road Trip, France, etc. Those bigger family travels get their own album with photos and details.
I use Shutterfly to create our albums. This is where I upload my photos all year anyways. They make it easy to upload photos on the site and on your app. I use this to share photos with grandparents each month. When it comes time to make a photo album, Shutterfly is a convenient way to create reliably high quality albums.
You can try a FREE photo album with Shutterfly with this code.
5. Travel Journals
Aren’t a big fan of photos? Or want a way to use words to share more about your travels? Travel journals for you and/or the kids can be a great way to save memories and share them, if wanted.
Here are some that we’ve used:
- Moleskine Traveller’s Journal – this one I use for the whole process, before planning and actual memories. GET ONE HERE
- I like this one or this one for kids.
