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-	A '''travel journal''', or '''road journal''' or '''travelogue ''', is an initially blank book carried by a traveler for the purpose of documenting a journey. Clippings, tokens, or tickets may be included as they are collected. The journal may also include notes written by acquaintances. Some journals feature hand-drawn [[illustrations]], or even [[watercolor]]s, of friends and places. A travelogue may also contain details of bad experiences. Since the popularization of the World Wide Web, digital travel journals called travel blogs have become commonplace.	+
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-	In the movie [[Dances with Wolves]], Lieutenant John Dunbar keeps a journal to document his observations of American Indians. Jack Kerouac's ''[[On the Road]]'' is a stream of consciousness novel written largely as a travel journal based on the spontaneous road trips of Kerouac and his friends across mid-century America. Jonathan Swift's [[1726]] ''[[Gulliver's Travels]]'' is a satirical novel parodying the "travellers' tales" literary sub-genre that was immensely popular at that time. Geoffrey Chaucer's [[14th century]] ''[[The Canterbury Tales]]'', mostly a collection of unrelated stories, is interspersed with details of a group [[pilgrimage]] from Southwark to Canterbury.	+
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