Today I scrapped photos from Malaysia & Indonesia.
This blog entry is probably only interesting to people who are thinking about doing a similar type of album or want to hear all about our trip! (You know how most people feel about other peoples' vacation photos?)
Even though this album is not super fancy or cute, I am loving how it is turning out. It feels to me a lot like an old fashioned scrapbook. I have started adding postcards that I sent to my mom. I am simply punching a hole in the postcard and adding it to the album on the day that I wrote it. This gives me an additional image from that location as well as more information about the trip.
In case it isn't obvious, in the photo above the photo of the woman fixing fruit, is the postcard.
Below is a photo of the same page after the postcard 'page' has been flipped. With the postcard flipped, you can see that I left one photo pocked completely empty. I liked the idea of seeing some of the journaling from our daily travel journal peeking through.
Then when the page is turned, you can see the writing on the postcard through the empty photo pocket. See the photo below.
Here is another page I did tonight. I found these photos tonight and realized I had already scrapped the other photos from that day. It turns out this won't be a problem for me since I am using a 3-ring album and it is easy for me to slip these forgotten photos right into the correct spot. I did have to shuffle a few photos and patterned paper cards into the back of this divided page protector since I only found enough photos to fill one side of a page protector. It took me less than five minutes to get them where they needed to be. A pretty painless mistake.
Journaling from Postcard #1 (lady attending to fruit)
July 11, 1997
Dear Mom,
This (the big ones) are Durians - "The Forbidden Fruit." Or it
should be anyway. The stink is awful. But people love it. I had a taste
in Japan - bleck. An entire fruit in Japan costs $100 - I'm not sure of
the cost here, but they're every where & indiginous so I'd imagine
not too expensive.
This postcard is from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It's a great city - very cosmopolitan. So many cultures existing harmoniously. The architecture is wonderful - new buildings included. So refreshing after Japan.
The food is good - lots of Chinese, Thai & Indian cuisine.
It's hard to find actual Malay. But had some for lunch today. Our hotel
is nice. $12/night, but no A/C - common shower - private room &
comfortable. It's warm here & a little humid but not nearly as hot
as Japan. Comfortable. Lots of Islam women wearing scarves over their
hair and all covered except their hands & feet. I saw a woman today
0 all in black w/ only her eyes peeking through.
We're looking for jobs looking to travel to Singapore &
Indonesia if we can - they're so close. No for Cambodia, but will still
do Vietnam. Until I write again...
The next page ended up being all photos and I added another postcard in front of it by punching one hole right into the postcard.
These photos of my pages are out of order (still learning Typepad and not sure how to rearrange). The picture below shows the page after the postcard has been 'turned.' I left the vertical strip on the left side of the page empty so you can see through to the next page of the album. I started that page and will finish it tomorrow.
And finally here is a photo of the same page with a view of the previous page and the postcard flipped to the next page and you can see the writing on the other side.
These are all my pages that I did for Day 8 of LOAD (Lay Out A Day).
Journaling from Postcard #2 (traditional building in Indonesia)
July 17, 1997
Hi Mom-
Here we are in Bukkitingi, Indonesia on the island of Sumatra. It took us 36 hours to get here from Kuala Lumpur (KL). Did you get all my emails? It will be a while before I can check again. From KL we took an overnight train to Singapore from there a 30 min. ferry to Indonesia (a diff. island) then 4 or 5 hour ferry to Sumatra, then a 4 or 5 hour bus ride to Pekanbaru then an overnight bus here. These aren't no luxury buses. Not a lot of sleep, but some.
Today we walked around the nearby canyon & shopped in the local market. The food is interesting. My favorite things is the chicken satay with spicy peanut sauce. Tomorrow I will try dadia campur fruit, oats, molasses & buffalo yogurt - looks yummy!
Tomorrow will go to a lake town in the crater of an old volcano then its off to the jungle for trekking to see orangutangs in the wild. Orang-utang means 'man of the jungle.' Tonight we'll watch a show of traditional dance & martial arts. Until next time.
For the next few days I'm posting from Tucson, Arizona. More travel pages tomorrow.
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