About

Where it all started

In summer 2006, at the tender age of 17, I bought a one-way ticket to Australia on the spur of the moment after becoming disheartened with a life working in sales. The idea was that I’d have a Gap Year, before returning home and starting college. I did eventually return home, and I did go on to college, but as soon as I touched down onto Australian soil I was bitten hard by the travel bug, and I knew deep down there had been a deep change in me that would never be the same again.

I spent my summer months consumed by travel, hopping all over Europe, and the time I actually spent in class was spent day dreaming about where I could go on my next trip. Looking for an outlet during the long months at home, I set up this blog (in January 2010). It was my way to connect with other people passionate about travel, and acted as a creative outlet. Without it I don’t know how I would have got through the long monotonous winters back home.

How I started earning a living from blogging

Within a few months I was starting to build up a following on this blog. Advertisers were contacting me, and I could see this blog was becoming so much more than just a hobby. It was taking up so much of my time that I knew I had a choice to make – Do I stay at college and focus on my studies? Or do I set up my own business, attempt a life of full-time travel, and attempt to make a full-time living from this blog? I am so glad I chose the latter.

Within 6 months of focusing on my blog full-time I was making a reasonable income. Within 12 months I was making enough to pay all my bills and travel full-time.

Making the decision to go with the momentum, and put all my efforts into this blog was the best decision I’ve ever made. It may have taken a while, but since January 2011 I’ve been able to travel full-time off nothing but my travel blogging earnings.

The purpose of this blog

I hope that through this blog I can help other people looking to travel, be it their first jaunt abroad, a rtw backpacking adventure, or someone who wants to travel full-time like me. Although my aim for a long time has been to make a living from this blog, first and foremost it was, and has always been about connecting with other people interested in travel.

With years of travel under my belt, I want to pass on my years of knowledge to other people interested in travel so that they don’t make the mistakes I did, and can make the most of their travels.

For more information about me, check out my blog post on the story of how I became a full-time travel blogger.

As the saying goes – Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did.