Phones down · pens out
Catskill Journals
A trip journal made just for the people taking it.
Tell us where you're going, who's coming, and what you want the trip to do. We craft a print journal that knows your names, your history, and your jokes — previewed instantly, then printed and shipped to your door.
Start your journalFriends & family edition — free while we're testing. Your honest feedback is the price.
How it works
Tell us about the trip
Where you're going, who's coming, and what you want the trip to do — the inside jokes, the history, the things you never get around to asking.
Five minutes, a few honest answers.
We craft your journal
A one-of-a-kind print journal built around the two of you — a thought for the road each morning, questions worth talking over each evening.
Previewed instantly, every page.
Print it, pack it, go
A printable PDF or a real bound book shipped to your door. Then the phones go in the glovebox and the trip goes in the journal.
The watermark comes off when it's yours.
Why this exists
It started with a trip with my dad
My dad and I had been talking about a Catskills trip for years. When it finally came together, I realized I didn't want to spend it the way we spend most days — half there, half on our phones. So I made us a journal: a thought for the road each morning, three questions to talk over each evening, and room to write down the things we'd otherwise forget. It changed the trip. We asked each other things we'd never gotten around to in forty years, and the miles went by full of stories instead of podcasts. Catskill Journals makes that journal for your trip — whoever you're going with.
The phones stayed in the glovebox. The journal came home full.