

Destinations change, trends change, and when you’re starting fresh you can write about what travelers most want to know about today.

Some of my current favorite blogs are only a few years old. The same opportunity exists today for two key reasons.įirstly, there is always room for new voices and perspectives. If I had, I would have missed out on such an amazing job that lets me travel and work from anywhere. That’s not to say everyone will have such a result, but I’m glad I didn’t listen to the naysayers. Two years later I quit my job to become a full-time travel blogger. Some people even suggested I was ‘too late’… ha! I started a blog anyway… and I’m so happy I did. There were so many other amazing blogs out there already, just like there are today. In fact, I felt exactly the same when I started blogging… waaaay back in 2012. More on this later.)īut if you hope to have a commercial blog, then you may feel a bit intimidated by the number of travel blogs that already exist. (Of course, blogging ‘just for fun’ can still have many side benefits. It’s the purest reason to start blogging. In fact, I think more travel bloggers should just do it for fun! I miss the days when most blogs were just sharing experiences from the road. If you want to blog for fun, then you certainly have nothing to worry about. So, you might wonder if it’s still the right time to jump in. It’s true there are many more travel blogs today than there were just 5 or 10 years ago. First, let me answer one of the most common questions I get about travel blogging: is there too much competition these days?
