How I Make Money as a Professional Travel Blogger

I’m going to be completely honest here: I sometimes avoid telling people that I’m a travel blogger when I first meet them.

This isn’t because I’m ashamed of what I do, or because I try to keep it a secret. I just hate the inevitable follow-up question that always comes whenever I tell someone that I blog as a career.

It’s the number one question I get as a travel blogger:

“How do you make money doing that?”

Sometimes it’s phrased more delicately. Like, “Sooo… you, like, make a living doing that?”

Sometimes it’s much more blunt, like, “How much do you make doing that?”

To be honest, I sometimes want to tell people that it’s none of their business. I don’t go around asking my accountant or nurse or teacher friends how THEY make money,…