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Best Travel Journals to get before your next trip | Wondrous Paths

10 beautiful travel journals to buy before your next adventure

I’m an obsessive journaler and sketcher when I’m on the go. I collect every little thing for making collages – even cookie wrappers from foreign airlines. I also am hopelessly addicted to beautiful notebooks and travel journals. I probably have owned 300+ notebooks and sketchbooks in the 27 years I’ve been alive (I’ve maybe filled about 75% of them). These are...

Best Travel Books of 2017

The 10 best travel books I read in 2017

It’s the end of the year, and time to reflect on the year past and plan for the year ahead. I am very pleased to report I knocked my Goodreads goal of 30 books for 2017 out of the park (I read 40!). Should I stretch myself in 2018 and aim for a book a week? Anyhow, it’s time to share some of my favorite travel books from this year that kept my wanderlust stoked while...

Capitol Building | Washington D.C.

Post election blues: living in America after this week

I started Wondrous Paths a few months ago to celebrate the beauty in the world. Focusing on a cross section of global creativity and imagination has always been the goal. It takes an incredible amount of effort to get a blog from a nascent project to having a full readership, and I thought I was up to the task. After this election, anxiety, depression, and anger have...