The Benefit of a Traveler’s Daily WhatsApp Messages to a Friend: Boosting Mindfulness and Creating a Travel Diary

The WhatsApp message that began the daily ritual: “Here a photo for you, view from our hotel, you also sent me such nice photos of the big wide world when I was bedridden.”

I usually don’t keep a travel diary.

On a trip, when days are jammed with activities, I simply don’t have the time. Plus I’m exhausted at the end of the day. And yet, precisely because on a trip days are so big, so way more full than they are in everyday life, it would be good to keep a diary. Not just a log of what I did...