My wife and I have big dreams of traveling with your children, and now that they’re finally getting old enough to enjoy seeing the world, our excitement is in overdrive. As a writer, I look forward to chronicling our journeys together, so for my birthday, my wife picked up a cool journal for us to start laying our plans in black and white.

The book she bought me was Julianne Balmain’s Abroad: A Travel Organizer and Journal. In the past, any journaling I’d done had been typed into a computer program, which makes this gift extra special. There are pages for everything from daydreaming about what where you want to go all the way through the actual vacation experience. It’s nice to have a book that I can someday share with the children when we’re reminiscing about our travels together.

Another thing that I love about Abroad is that there are helpful reference pages inside. Balmain’s collected important information from a variety of websites for quick reference at home or abroad and a list of time zones to useful phrases in languages from key vacation and travel destinations around the world. She’s also put together a long list of fantastic guides to help you pinpoint where you’d like to travel, from London to Tibet. One of my wife’s favorite reference features is a quick guide to men’s and women’s shoe and clothing sizes in the U.S., U.K. and Europe.

If you have a travel lover on your holiday shopping list, Abroad would definitely be a welcomed gift.