101 Short Love Notes for Your Favorite Traveler

Somewhere between folding shirts and double-checking passports, I always tuck a few notes into Chris’s suitcase before he heads out the door. It’s become our thing over the years, a habit that started small and just stuck. Short love notes don’t need to be poetic or perfectly worded. They just need to say the thing you might forget to say out loud in the rush of packing lists and boarding passes.

Whether your traveler is off on a solo work trip or you’re both headed out the door together, these 101 short love notes are ready to print and easy to tuck into a suitcase, jacket pocket, or toiletry bag. A good love note doesn’t need to be long. It just needs to show up somewhere unexpected.

The Tradition Behind Short Love Notes

When Chris traveled internationally for work, friends would ask where he was that week, and half the time I honestly didn’t know. “He’s just local this week” was my go-to joke when he stayed within the U.S.; other weeks I’d just shrug and admit I wasn’t always sure which country he was in.

Chris is a meticulous packer. Dress shirts folded just so, socks stuffed into his dress shoes to save space, packing cubes for everything else, all fit into one carry-on for a week of business meetings. On one of his multi-week trips years ago, I decided to test that system a little, not enough to mess it up, just enough to surprise him. A short love note tucked into a shirt pocket. Another folded into his dopp kit. One hidden in a rolled-up pair of socks.

He found a new one almost every day. Sometimes I numbered them so he’d know how many were still hiding. A few he didn’t find until a shorter trip weeks later, tucked somewhere I’d forgotten about. Before flying home, he gathered the notes he’d kept, snapped a photo of the collection, and shared it along with a sweet post on Facebook.

There are lots of reasons Jolayne is awesome. But this one is especially great and worth sharing, even if personal. Going on frequent business trips around the world may seem luxurious and amazing, but in truth it’s really hard missing so much of what goes on at home. Sometimes it’s a real drag. Mostly it’s just hotels, restaurants, airplanes, and offices.

On my last trip, Jo hid over a dozen notes in my luggage for me to find throughout my trip. The kids even pitched in with their own notes too. What a pick me up! It made being gone for three weeks just a bit easier.

Short & Sweet Love Notes

These are the sweet notes you can print from my Love Notes list or scribble in ten seconds flat, no flowery wording required. Short and sweet works because the message only takes a few words to convey your love.

• I met you. I liked you. I love you. I’m keeping you.
• You = my best friend + the love of my life.
• When I tell you I LOVE you, I don’t say it out of habit or to make conversation. I say it to remind you that you are the best thing that ever happened to me!
• Psssst… I love you.
• If I did anything right in my life, it was when I gave my heart to you.
• I like the way you make me feel even when you’re not around.
• You are the first and last thing on my mind each and every day.
• Your arms feel more like home than any house does.
• I want you to continue being the absolute best part of my life.
• I’m jealous of the people who get to see you everyday.
• If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.
• I won’t give up on us.
• You’re my definition of perfect (for me).
• Hey. You know I love you right?

Two Word Love Notes

Sometimes two words are all it takes. These notes are quick enough to jot on a sticky note, a spare napkin, or whatever scrap of paper is closest when you’re out of time.

• Be mine.
• My everything.
• Love struck.
• My heart.
• My forever.
• Dream partner.
• You + Me
• Best friends.
• You’re mine.
• Just us.
• Stronger together.
• Couples goals.
• Adventure buddies.
• Only you.
• Got lucky!
• Love story.

Flirty Love Notes for Traveling Together

Not every trip means someone’s left behind. These notes are for when you’re both headed to the airport together, little reminders slipped into a jacket pocket or found waiting on the hotel nightstand. If the trip itself is still in the planning stage, my guide to planning a couples getaway is a good place to start before you get to the fun part of hiding notes.

• Something tells me I’m going to love you forever.
• I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow. ~Leo Christopher
• I’m forever yours.
• Together is my favorite place to be.
• I love you because you make me feel like I mean something to somebody.
• Meeting you was fate, becoming your friend was a choice, but falling in love with you was beyond my control.
• I still get butterflies even though I’ve seen you 1000’s times.
• My love for you is a journey; starting at forever, and ending at never.
• I am so addicted to the idea of us being together.
• I fall for your smile every single time.
• I may not be your first, but I plan to be your last.
• You make me laugh when I’m not even in the mood to smile.
• Calling me cute is nice, calling me hot is great, but calling me yours is all I want.
• It’s amazing how one day you walked into my life and I can’t remember how I ever lived without you.
• You and me together forever.
• Soul mates connected forever.
• You are the best decision I ever made.
• I want to keep on making memories with you.

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I Miss You Messages for the Solo Traveler

These are for the trips where it’s just one of you boarding the plane. A quick reminder that missing someone doesn’t have to sound sad, it can just as easily make them smile from a hotel room three time zones away.

• I love you this……….much!
• I think I am suffering from a lack of Vitamin U.
• If I could have anyone in the world, it would still be you.
• I want all of my firsts and lasts to be with you .
• I would choose you again and again and again.
• You can have my heart but not my french fries.
• To Do List: You
• Actually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures. ~Lewis Carroll
• Love is the food of life, travel is dessert.
• You’re like a dictionary. You add meaning to my life.
• You may be thousands of miles away, but you are still the first things on my mind.

One Line Love Notes for Each Other

One line is all it takes. These notes skip the buildup and go straight to the point—short enough to read in a glance, but meaningful enough to make them smile for the rest of the day.

• 1 universe, 9 planets, 204 countries, 7 seas, and I had the privilege of finding you.
• I want to be the reason you look down at your phone and smile.
• Cuddling with you would be perfect right now.
• I like that you ruin my lipstick…not my mascara.
• I’m so totally, completely, magnificently, passionately in love with you.
• I have a crush on your mind, I fell for your personality, and your looks are just a big bonus. ~ The Notebook
• If I could sit across the porch from God, I would thank Him for lending me you.
• I want to keep on making memories with you.
• I’m the best me when I am with you.
• I can’t imagine life without you. That’s my love story.
• Suddenly, all of the love songs were about me and you.
• You are my favorite notification.
• What we find in a soulmate is not something wild to tame, but something wild to run with. ~Robert Brault

Sweet Love Notes from the Heart

These sweet notes are just a few extra words to say exactly what you’d tell your favorite person if they were standing right in front of you. If words of affirmation is how your partner feels most loved, this is the section to linger on.

• Every. Single. Day. I am grateful for you.
• In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine. ~ Maya Angelou
• I love you way beyond the moon.
• It was love at first sight and last sight and every other sight in between.
• You have all of my heart every day of my life.
• You are my greatest adventure ever.
• I love you more than I love the beach.
• I love being yours.
• I will love you until the stars go out, and the tides no longer turn.
• I don’t want to be ‘tied down’ with someone, I want to be set free with someone.

Playful & Sassy Love Notes to Make Them Laugh

These are the short love notes with a sense of humor, the kind that makes them laugh out loud instead of just smile, and could be the one they show off to the person sitting next to them on the plane. Bonus timing: if you need an excuse to leave sweet notes, September 26 is National Love Note Day. But honestly, any day works.

• If you got stung by a jellyfish, I would totally pee on you.
• I would climb a small mountain for you.
• I would have shared the door with you.
• You are the reason I get out of bed in the morning. Just kidding. I have to pee.
• I plan on bugging you everyday for the foreseeable future.
• You know that tingly little feeling you get when you like someone? That is your common sense leaving your body.
• I want someone who will look at me the same way I look at chocolate cake.
• Will you lend me a kiss? I promise to give it back.
• I lost my teddy bear, can I sleep with you?
• In a room full of art, I’d still stare at you.
• Do you believe in love at first sight, or should I walk by again?
• I want to be the reason you look down at your phone and smile. Then walk into a pole.
• I always wake up smiling. I think it’s your fault.
• Sometimes I look at my husband and think… Damn, he is one lucky man.
• If your significant other is mad at you, put a cape on them and say “Now you’re super mad!”
• I promise to always be by your side. Or under you. Or on top. ~Joe King
• You are the reason why my glasses get foggy.
• Love is like finding a needle in a haystack.
• Once in a while, something amazing comes along and here you are.
• I don’t care how many people are in this world, I want you! End of story.

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Love Notes That Are Short, Sweet & Easy to Steal

You don’t need to be a poet or spend an hour agonizing over the right words. Print your favorites, cut them apart, and tuck the sweet notes somewhere your favorite person won’t expect to find them: a suitcase pocket, a toiletry kit, a boarding pass sleeve. That is really all you have to do. Busy schedules and time apart make it easy to coast in a relationship. A love note is a small, five-minute way to keep the romance alive.

Want all 101 notes in one place to print before your next trip? Grab the Free Printable Love Notes list and keep it handy for every packing day from here on out.

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