Starting a Travel Blog in 2019 (a No-BS Guide) • Indie Traveller

I love being a travel blogger. What once started as just a creative outlet has become a full-time job and a location-independent lifestyle. Every day I get to do things I intensely enjoy doing… and get to make a living from it!

In this guide, I will share everything I’ve learned about starting a travel blog and how to set yourself up for success — whether you just want to do it for fun, hoping for certain side-benefits (like free travel), or maybe aiming to one day make a living from it.

Just a little word of caution: gaining an audience, let alone earning money with a travel blog, is not easy. I just want to be clear about this.

Maybe that wasn’t the impression you were given. Some bloggers seem to present travel blogging as some kind of easy cure-all for all of life’s problems. “Just start a travel blog, quit your boring life, and follow your dreams! Soon you’ll be riding a unicorn!”

But this is not going to be that kind of post. If you want to start a travel…