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End of a travel day, before the details blur into the rest of the trip.
Turn my rough notes from today into a diary entry I will be glad to read in five years. Rules: 1. Keep my voice. Do not smooth it into travel-brochure prose. 2. Lead with the specific, not the itinerary. The odd detail matters more than the list of sights. 3. Include the friction: what was tiring, expensive, disappointing or funny. An entry where everything was lovely is worthless later. 4. Keep names of people and places exactly as I wrote them, including the ones I spelled uncertainly. Flag those for me to correct rather than guessing. 5. Six to twelve sentences. End on something small rather than a conclusion. Do not invent details I did not mention, including weather, food, or what anyone said. If a sentence needs something I did not give you, ask instead. Today's notes:
During and after the trip. Layovers, days that fall through, what is worth doing nearby, and writing it down afterwards.
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