![]() ![]() ![]() I also started social media accounts over the course of the year. Meanwhile I kept blogging about our past travels on my website and I wrote several posts for Wendy for her website. I think that confirmed for me that I wanted to be involved with travel writing in some way. In October I traveled to Mexico City with AFAR Magazine on one of their AFAR Experiences and met the magazine’s founders and editors. I started blogging for fun while I was still helping my old company transition and thinking about a new career. I had no idea what I was going to do next, but at one point I called Wendy at CNT and she pointed me to some family travel blogs she liked. Could have been a midlife crisis? But I never had a passion for healthcare, so maybe seeing Conde Nast Traveler’s offices and meeting their writers made me think I’d be happier doing something travel-related. In April 2014 I quit my healthcare job of 18 years. This shot won the 2012 Conde Nast Traveler Photo of the Year award. It was a great trip, but I liked meeting Wendy and seeing behind the curtain of my favorite travel magazine just as much.Ħam, Havana, Cuba. In 2013 I traveled to New York and toured Conde Nast’s offices with Wendy Perrin, and then in June we headed to Florence and spent $25,000 of Conde Nast’s money. I won! I write about the photo and the contest here. In 2012 I traveled to Cuba for a photography workshop and entered one of my photos in Conde Nast Traveler’s Dream Trip contest. I’ve simply written about travel instead! So here you go – my entire blogging history in chronological order! And a note: this is NOT a ‘How To Be A Travel Blogger post’. Other than including a few elements of this in my life story on my About Me page, I really haven’t ever written about this. I highly recommend not quitting your day job and jumping into travel writing unless you have enough savings to support you and your travels for 2-3 years. Most of my revenue comes from Destination Marketing, Social Media Campaigns and Brand Ambassadorships.Īnd a quick note on finance: I talk a little about revenue in the below timeline, but it takes several years to make solid money in travel writing – at least on the path I took. I do almost everything they talk about, with the exception of Display Ads – I dislike ads on websites, so I can’t bring myself to have them here. The World Pursuit does a good job of going through the various income opportunities in this post. I’ve never written about how travel bloggers make money just because so many others have already written about it. Blogging in Vietnam How Do You Make Money Travel Writing? ![]()
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