2019 | A YEAR IN THE LIFE OF A FULL-TIME TRAVEL BLOGGER (Full Yr Evaluate!)

This is an insider take a look at my 2019 as a full-time journey blogger, together with bucket record journeys & the pleasant small moments in between. I supposed to make an epic cinematic montage however life had different plans when my laborious drive broke and I misplaced 50% of my 2019 video information! Nonetheless, this is a enjoyable very “me” journey recap scrounged collectively from iPhone clips, pictures, rogue boomerangs, and the surviving clips from my Sony A7iii. I am sorry the complete factor is not brilliantly prime quality, however when life provides you lemons……. squeeze them right into a bizarre, pixelly lemonade? Proper? …… Proper?

Interested by me and what I do? Scroll down for some FAQ about what I do for a residing and the way I fund my travels, and preserve scrolling to the underside for Instagram handles of the creator pals proven on this video ⬇️

BUT FIRST…

➡️ Comply with me on Instagram for real-time Tales and shenanigans: https://www.instagram.com/happytowander
➡️ Learn my web site for detailed guides and ideas: http://happytowander.com/

— FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT MY LIFE AS A TRAVEL BLOGGER —

What’s your job precisely?
When you’ve discovered me on YouTube, my #1 ardour and child is my journey weblog (https://happytowander.com/), which I’ve had for over 5 years! I am nonetheless very new to YouTube, however my website reaches thousands and thousands of individuals yearly, and managing it’s my full-time gig. I additionally personal a number of different web sites too, so I assume my obscure job title can be ~* DiGiTAL MeDiA specialist ~~*.

How do you fund your travels?
After engaged on it for thus a few years, I now have the privilege of incomes a full-time revenue from my journey weblog (with some extra trickles of revenue from my different websites). I might speak for ten years concerning the many alternative methods I generate an revenue via my website, however the primary sources are via advertisements (my website is filled with them, which I actually hate, nevertheless it pays too nicely to surrender!), affiliate revenue (I get a fee when folks purchase issues I like to recommend) and sponsors/purchasers who pay me to create video/written content material for them or characterize their firm/vacation spot ultimately.

As a journey blogger, do you get to journey at no cost?
As they are saying, there is no such factor as a free lunch! Whereas I did work with many locations and types on an alternate foundation early on in my journey running a blog profession, nothing was ever free within the sense that I all the time labored for it. Actually although, nowadays, I pay my very own manner on most journeys as a result of I feel it is much less trouble and I really like my freedom/independence. I am very privileged that I can do this due to the cash I make from my weblog. Every so often although, I do receives a commission to create content material for corporations/locations throughout which bills are lined, and (on choose events), I do nonetheless settle for sponsored journeys and experiences after I assume it is a good match.

The place are you from?
I am initially from Vancouver, Canada and am now based mostly in Munich, Germany.
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OTHER CREATOR FRIENDS FEATURED:

1. ‘Stranger from the Web’ – Sophie: https://www.instagram.com/sophieannenadeau/
2. ‘Vegetarian pal’ – Susanna: https://www.instagram.com/wanderingchocobo/
3. ‘Buddy I visited in Porto’ – Yishyene: https://www.instagram.com/smallcrazy/
4. ‘Buddy I visited in Hamburg’ – Jordan: https://www.instagram.com/jordanbwagner/
5. James Corden taping buddy #1 – Lia: https://www.instagram.com/practicalwanderlust/
6. James Corden taping buddy #2 – Sally: https://www.instagram.com/passportandplates/
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