Originally Posted by
Flintshooter
Some people enjoy writing.
I am very thankful for the journals I kept during two long backpacking trips. While it's that your memory will retain a lot of it, your memory will eventually fade. I enjoy being able to sit down on a cold winter's day and relive the past through journals that were written when the memories were fresh.
Online journals are a great source of information to those who are planning trips.
I guess you mistook my saying I was impressed with trip logger efforts as some kind of sarcastic put down. It was nothing of the sort.
Though I don't log trips, that doesn't imply that I have any negative thoughts about folks who do. In fact I respect their ability to find the time and follow through involved in doing so.
Different approaches to touring are just different, but there's no value judgement involved. It's like some tour to see beautiful and dramatic landscape, while others for the food, people and culture.