Journaling Prompts
A Selection of Journaling Prompts from Writing Away
If you could bring three aspects of this place to your homeland, what would they be?
If you were to describe this place using taste, how would you describe it? Sweet, salty, sour, bitter? Bland?
How do you think other travelers perceive you? Locals? Does it differ from the way you see yourself?
Do a character sketch—write about one local you’ve encountered, describing him or her thoroughly.
If you had grown up in this terrain among these people, what would you know that you don’t know now?
What fear would you like to face and conquer on this trip? What would it take to overcome it? Will you?
What are you living without on this trip that’s usually important to you? Write about how you’re coping without it.
