Travel with a Pen

Travel with a pen these days is a metaphor for travelling with a laptop. I went to Tasmania for two weeks intending just to keep a diary of my experiences. I was going there to graduate from my Diploma of Family History course and I was going to Oatlands in the midlands to explore more of my great great grandmother's story as a young Irish convict in the 1850s. And I was hoping to see places I hadn't seen before.The diary grew into something more this book. It is easy when in possession of a laptop to slip from observation and reporting into reflecting on experiences. For me it evoked the idea of Boswell's London Journal.