Travel Blogging

Hi,

So today in the NY Times there was an article about travel blogging and how complicated it has become to secure advertisements and vie for endorsements.  The article can be found here: travelbloggingtodayiscomplicated

I found this interesting since I just came back from my (abridged) trip where I definitely counted on the posts of several travel bloggers - particularly those females traveling alone - in order to boost my own confidence and also to learn about my travel destinations.  I also used them to learn about Dengue Fever, which I thought I had when I got a sudden, high fever with pain throughout my body.  Some of the travel blogs I looked at were:

http://www.adventurouskate.com/  - Kate has really got the travel blogging business down pat.  I found it thinking it was just a cool blog by a girl like me - which, of course, she argues that she is - but in many ways, she is not.  Blogging is not just a fun, carefree pasttime for Kate.  She made it a career and certainly did abandon the "traditional" life and she made a go of it as a full time travel blogger.  What I learned from her blog and what was reinforced by the article today, is that you can make a living from travel blogging - if you aren't living in New York or another expensive Western city - or in some place like Australia.  Many of the trips are comped and travel bloggers write about them to help with campaigns for travel agencies, etc.

http://pearlsandpassports.com/tag/solo-female-travel/  - This lady certainly had a detailed description of her Dengue Fever experience and she said that getting through that while traveling alone sort of taught her that she could do anything.  This was inspiring and helped me realize that perhaps I wasn't going to die alone in a Thailand hotel....

So anyway, suffice it to say that now I have a more intensified interest in travel blogging.  Though I have no desire to travel any time soon after this debacle of a trip, obviously, I do have some interest in blogging - though I would like to blog about "crafting" myself - which can really be interpreted in many ways and crafts that I may make.

When I saw this travel blog today in the Times, I visited and I was really inspired by how this couple is crafting the beginning of a beautiful wealth of memories as they start their life together.  The blog is called "2 people, 1 life": 2people1life.  The couple has decided to get married over and over again around the world in different locations - with a tribe, in a plane, in Hawaii, as vampires, etc. etc.  Wherever they get married, they adhere to the customs of the locale.  It is really a cool idea.  The couple also has a beautiful love story they tell on their biography pages and, being a hopeless romantic, I was touched.

I have just been thinking about this cool blog today and how they are "crafting" their lives.  It just shows how anything one can dream up is certainly possible.... it is possible to abandon the 9-5 life and live by traveling around the world and it is possible to get married everywhere from Australia to Michigan and back again... if, of course, that is what you want. It is also possible to stay home in magnificent New York and breathe in the magic and wonder of every day on our 'ever unfinished' city.  (Not that I'm doing this as I'm still recovering from being ill and exhausted and run down from my abruptly ended trip in Southeast Asia... but I will be back and whole...soon).