Cheaper by the Dozen

Just picked up 12 more journals. I was out of empty pages at home. After six years of hunting sheep in Alaska...I guess I have at least twelve more years to go.

Right now it's pretty awesome to read these journals to my wife after a hunt. I think it will be even better reading them to my kids someday. So much is captured by writing on these journal pages while in the field...on the adventure. So much more than if you tried to recap it all afterwards. There's details of sights, feelings of excitement, wonder, and pain that would be lost if you only wrote it down afterwards. These journals contain the complete story, our thoughts in the midst of it, and those awesome God moments we encounter out there.

Journal Writing Tip #1: Refer to landmarks (mountains, glaciers, rivers, lakes, and creeks) by other names than what is actually on the map. It has two benefits. It keeps your creative thinking process working, and if friends are over and they pillage your house for hunting information, the journals contain false names.