10 Years of Traveling and Blogging

Can you believe it? I’ve officially been running A Dangerous Business for TEN YEARS as of mid-February, 2020.

That’s nearly 1/3 of my life, and I’m still pinching myself that I’ve managed to turn this thing that I love into the thing that also pays my bills and funds so many amazing adventures around the world.

I started this blog back in 2010, when I was working full-time as a copy- and layout-editor at a small local newspaper in northwest Ohio. I started the blog purely as a creative outlet; I wanted somewhere to be able to write, and also needed something constructive to do during down-time at work.

Back then, not many people were full-time bloggers, or making very much money from travel blogs. In fact, when I started A Dangerous Business, I wasn’t…