Our Blogging Journey

Here you’ll find all of our posts about our own blogging journey. This is where we show you exactly how we went from a hobby blog to a full-time, multi-six-figure online business. When we started, we didn’t know the first thing about blogging, but somehow we managed to grow this into one of the top travel blogs in the world. If we can do it, so can you!

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12 Lessons We Learned From 12 Years of Digital Nomad Life

We’ve made plenty of mistakes. Some of them have cost us a lot of time and money. Particularly #7 on this list! In this article, I’m going to share with you the 12 lessons we’ve learned from 12 years of traveling and living abroad full time while running our remote freedom lifestyle businesses. Our friends ...
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How We Quit Our Jobs to Travel: Our Journey from 2008 to Now

This was the most exciting and most difficult time of our lives, and there was a time when we thought we might break up over it. A lot of Instagrammers, Bloggers and YouTubers (including us) are always talking about how great it is to live a freedom life. One where you can work from anywhere ...
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10 Reasons Travel Bloggers Will Never Return To 9-To-5 Jobs

 If you’ve been following this blog for a while, you’ll know that I love my job. I mean, I would keep working at it even if I wasn’t getting paid, but luckily we do get paid 😉. The job is travel blogging and Dariece and I have been doing it for over a decade, which ...
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Why We Started a New Website During Lockdown

 Sitting here in Lisbon Portugal on lockdown during a worldwide pandemic definitely isn’t how I thought things would turn out in 2020.  If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you’ll know that Dariece and I were travelling around Europe and enjoying some of the continent’s most romantic cities, drinking wine, eating delicious ...
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Why We Chose Blogging As Our Full-Time Career

If you’ve been on our blog before, or if you follow us on social media, you’ll know that we love our blogging career. I never thought I would say that I love my job, but I honestly can’t imagine a better one than the one I have now. Still, we get the same question in ...

The Secret to How We Tripled Our Blog Traffic in 12 Months

Our ultimate goal in 2018 was to slow down (travel less) and spend a bit more time with our baby (this blog). While we love travelling from place to place every few days and enjoying the road like we did when we were backpackers, when trying to run an online business along the way, it’s ...