Travel lines

I don't tend to use thematic supplies for many travel photos. I do use nautical themes for many of our summer Cape Cod trips, but that's it. (And even then, just for photos taken aboard boats, at marinas, etc.)  Because so little of my photos OR our activities fit anything themed out there. And even if they do, then the colors are wrong.  I mean, I have photos from the Cape that are pirate themed mini-golf, bird-watching (not just gulls), and a museum full of antique cars.  What I am going to do with anchors and whales for those pictures, right??  

Or another example: a trip to Italy is on my to-do list, and someone recently gave me some left-over Italy themed papers, and they wear all primarily green, white, & red. I'll likely still use some of the papers--only for local Italian festivals instead, because those tend to be awash with Italian flags. But I know what the places I want to visit in Italy look like, and there's no way this pile of green, red, and white will work, and since I don't have any pressing plans to visit Venice or Pisa, or even the gondolas & leaning tower elements will be useless to me.

In fact, I was even noticing in an old Disney album of mine (I made it in 2003.), that I actually used a tremendous amount of solid or "nearly-solid" color cardstocks for most of my layouts. I think only 2 or 3 pages had any Disney scrapbooking elements at all. (There was a lot of ephemera from the trip, though.) Because even then, I remember buying a Disney album while we were in the parks, but that all of the Disney scrapbook kits didn't look like what I knew any of my photos would look like. (And yes, I had a lot of restaurant pics!)

excellent vent - I 100% agree. Have you looked at VB's recentish travel line - I picked some of it up because it was a little less airplane/road trip/eiffel tower and had cameras, citybuildings, drinks etc...not perfect but better than most imo.

I want icons for museums, historic sites (houses, ships, battlefields...), local eating, architecture, scenery...I have enough airplanes, road trip cars, suitcases, passports, eiffel towers, big bens...for a lifetime of travel and more.

One thing I have in my travel albums that I wish I had more of is two old pads of ae 3x8 papers - one is titled “todays schedule” (it lists each hour of the day with a line for text next to it) and one called “travel log” (spaces for where you went, who with, why, what you spent etc) - I find these invaluable for trips where we go to multiple places in one day as a summary of all the details I want to remember but that aren’t worth a layout about.
They are summarised journaling that is consistent for each day, and then I can just do layout upon layout with all my favourite photos.
The one about the daily schedule I really enjoy using for Disney trips as I can easily summarise which rides we went on throughout the day with minimal effort and without needing a photo or journaling if it’s not a photo worthy moment.
I would love more items similar to this but with food.
There are these cards from Elles studio:
shopellesstudio.com/search?q=Journaling+tag

Maybe I should invest in some of these but as I do smaller albums they aren’t quite what I’m looking for…

ITA artbabe
So .much.brown.
Of course, living in Oz,I have even less choices for local travel themes. If I didn’t go to Sydney I am stymied!

Popping in here quick, so have not read the responses. But have you tried Scrap My Trip for the papers you are looking for, artbabe? Scrapbook Customs is another company that carries paper designs outside the usual fare.

I'd like some Scandinavian representation. There's more to Europe than Paris, Rome and the UK.

This is why I bought so much Pinkfresh. Here is the list that I have found with these kinds of themes within PF. 

Life Right Now: Food items: cutting board, veggies, a fancy tart, mixer, bag of groceries, spatula/whisk, pots/pans, candy bar, tea (or coffee) and cake, dish of yougurt or ice cream
Travel: A map that says "road trip", weekend fun, lets go on an adventure with a car, a quick getaway, hanging out, and some cute buildings. 

Some Days: To go bags, iced coffee or drink, take out container, wine bottle, cinema, movie night, drink ticket, espresso maker, art museum ticket, a nintendo switch (can't even say how happy I was about that) coffee, juice, lots of ticket-y bits that would work well with travel or city stuff. I used it for Calgary. 

Keeping it Real: Retail therapy, dessert first, adulting, weekend, outdoor cafes, moka pot, cell phones, other city scape bits 

And my total fave, best collection I have seen in years, PF Simply the Best, which has about everything I need in a travel, hanging out with friends, just living life line. 

Edited to add that I also agree with your vent. I cannot even with another travel collection with the Eiffel tower. There is so much more to France than that. 

I am going to Washington DC next summer, I need all the museum scrapbook stuff. I will also probably eat on the trip, so food papers are needed. The plane to get there is something to put up with, not what I want to scrap about.

melanell thanks for reminding me about one of my favourite travel journals, which I made from the paper I accumulated along the way. It was from a road trip in Sweden and I need to go and find it - I remember doing that marking up of maps and recording the day using those hotel "how was it for you" type cards. Hmmm... now why haven't I done that since then?!