10 Lessons Learned from 10 Years of Travel Blogging

10 years and more than 10 million readers. Those are the milestones A Dangerous Business celebrated in 2020. Wow!

It’s no secret that the trajectory of this website was unexpected. When I started this blog in 2010, it was purely as a hobby. I was longing for a creative outlet, and for somewhere to write; never did I expect that A Dangerous Business would someday become my full-time job!

I’ve already rounded up some of my favorite travel memories and blog posts from the last 10 years, so today I thought I’d focus on the business side of things.

When I started this blog, I was a fairly recent college graduate with a BA in journalism. The classes I’d taken in college revolved around journalism and literature and editing; I knew absolutely nothing about…