Traveling Without Camera

We’re not planning to bring a camera on our upcoming trip to Europe. Or at most, an old point-and-click loaded with Tri-X. The proximate reason for this is that last winter we lost our little digital camera, and haven’t felt the necessity to replace it (we still have a bulkier, older digicam that works quite well). But ultimately for me, it’s a matter of being far more interested in travel sketching than photography. On her trip to New York last March, Pica only took a sketchbook to record her journey, and that was a great success.
Digital photographs seem to build up by the thousands on hard drives and CD-Rs and never see the light of day, but travel sketchbooks actually get looked at.