I don’t know about you, but my mailman hardly ever brings anything good. It’s usually bills, credit card offers and advertisements to stores I never shop in. Although I do love when my latest issue of Redbook or Real Simple shows up, it can’t compare to the day when The Traveling Journal arrives. It takes me back to summer camp when packages from home filled with little notes, homemade cookies and bug spray erased any inkling of home sickness, filling me with joy. Receiving The Traveling Journal means getting hand written letters from four of my favorite people. It means reliving some of life’s greatest moments and discovering little gems I had forgotten about since the last time I flipped through its pages.

Not only does it seem like letter writing is a dying art, but so is the art of creating pretty packages. When we ship orders that come into The Traveling Journal we try to make them creative and special– it just seems like a good way to start off the life of another Traveling Journal. We are inspired by the creativity some artists and craftsmen infuse into their packages. What’s inside matters most, but we believe a special delivery like The Traveling Journal deserves to shine on the outside too. Because the world would be a better place if we all received more pretty packages.

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