I just put the finishing touches on a downloadable/printable journal for SUV RVing, vandwelling, overlanding, road tripping, etc. It’s free and you can download it below.
The idea is that you download the PDF, print the necessary quantities of
the pages you need, punch holes in them, and stick them in a three-ring
binder. Take the binder with you on your trips and jot down the relevant information as desired.
After each page in the journal is an example page with red text that will help you better understand what each field is for. These pages do not need to be printed.
The printable pages in the journal include:
- A few different kinds of blank pages for notes
- Campsite log
- Hiking log
- Expense log
- Vehicle maintenance log
- Vehicle mileage log
- Journaling page
- Fuel expense log
- “Trips at a glance” page
- Blank to-do list
- Blank shopping list
- Location notes page
- “Week at a glance” page
- “Month at a glance” page
Again, you just need to print out the pages you’re interested in.
In addition to the pages in the journal, I also recommend printing a single-page year-at-a-glance calendar here.
**Click here to view/download the journal (PDF; 170 kB).**
This video (also embedded below) goes into a bit more detail about the journal and shows you how I’ve got mine arranged in a binder along with tabbed dividers, etc.
Hello,
I’ve been watching your YouTube and was wondering where you find the clubs and the places you can stay?
Hi Dawn. What do you mean by clubs? As for places to stay, http://freecampsites.net is a great place to start. Happy travels!
I love your videos. They have been very instructive.
Thanks!!
Thanks Sunny! I’m glad you like the videos. They’re a lot of fun to make.
Hi Tristen,
Thank you SO MUCH for the free download of your Trips Journal system. I could never have done all that on the computer. I have enough trouble finding sites.
And as I said in another text I’ve lost the 8 or so sites that were sent to me when I subscribed to your sites. Please send them to me again. I really need them!
I usually keep a thin journal every time I travel, but it’s getting overwhelming. I will try your idea.
Thank you again,
Lynn
PS……. I love the teddy bear request to your Mom!
Thanks Lynn! I’m glad it helped 🙂
Hi Tristen,
I recently found your channel. Is that journal still available? I’d love to have something for my own road trips. The link seems to be broken or something.
Thanks! Love the videos!
Barb
Hello Tristan,
First, thank you SO much for the videos you have created! They have been exceptionally inspirational, and I am planning to live full time in a 4Runner starting next month. A lot of my planning has come from your ideas.
I finally came across your old video on journaling (a couple of them), and am interested in checking out how you arrange things, and hopefully using it to document my new life. Do you transfer any of the information to your laptop, or is it strictly a hardcopy process?
I want to glom onto the previous commenter’s question – is there somewhere that the journal is available now? Or is that a thing of the past? Thank you again for your hard work, and for your response, whenever it is forthcoming. 🙂
Stephen
Hi Stephen. Thanks for the kind words! I updated the link in the blog post here so that the journal is again downloadable. For the actual daily journal part, I do try to add those into my laptop when I get back from my trips.
Great work man, you are putting out great, practical, applicable content for folks.
Thanks for the journal and great information.
Appreciated!