This podcast episode of Ink and Pen Adventures focuses on creating a compact art journaling travel kit for urban sketching and watercoloring on the go. Lori Ann shares her passion for capturing idyllic scenes through photos and sketches and talks about the evolution of her travel watercolor kit over the years—streamlining it into a small, functional folio from Art Toolkit.

In this episode, Lori Ann shares updates on her podcast after a break of around 20 months due to personal loss and less traveling.

• Discusses five reasons why she travels:

  1. Pattern Breaker: Helps her change routines and gain a new perspective.

  2. Adventure and Vacation: Exploring new places and activities.

  3. Family: Spending quality time with family and creating memories.

  4. Business Travel: Traveling for theater and travel business purposes.

  5. Bucket List: Traveling to destinations she's always wanted to visit.

• She mentions various travel themes, like food trips, stationary tours, garden visits, castle tours, and more.

• Encourages listeners to share their travel destinations and experiences.

Announces her upcoming class on travel journaling.

Join her on this adventure! Thanks for listening.

Travel fatigue is a real and common experience among travelers. It occurs when you feel exhausted due to prolonged days or weeks of being constantly on alert while traveling.

Join me while I talk about my experience with travel fatigue and how I combat it.