Is the dream job travel writing?  You get to travel while writing, making it sort of a vacation while you work.  Of course you don’t have to be a journalist to engage in writing while traveling.  Journalists and travel guide writers do get the perks and have their based particularly on traveling, but as Rolf Potts, a vagabond and writer, responded in an interview:

“Only get into travel journalism if you really love to travel and write. If you think it’s a good pretext for getting to travel, think again: you can travel just as much by saving up money from another, better-paying job, and just taking off to go vagabonding”

Or, then we have the blog writers who, with the mere connection of internet, can work, day or night, on the east coast or the west coast, and still earn money.  Though they aren’t always blogging about travel, they surely can write while traveling.

Blogging Pros Aren’t Needed Here

So you think to yourself, I want to write while traveling, but I only earn say $1000 per month. Don’t tell Rolf Potts your excuse.  As he wrote in a Salon.com article: “How can Jimmy come to understand a moral world where it’s somehow vital to avoid eating at McDonald’s in Manila, virtuous to intentionally bypass the “Mona Lisa” while at the Louvre and noble to sleep in a ditch in Africa”

Travel isn’t always about staying at a luxury hotel, or seeing the tourist sites, but taking an adventure.  What will you remember more: The line you waited in to see the Louvre, or the time you couldn’t find a place to sleep and slept on a park bench?

$1000 a month or even less can get you traveling for months.  Hostels in Thailand for example run only $5 per night.  Get an internet connection and a job earning $15 per day and you too can write and live in Thailand.

No More Excuses: You Too Can Engage in Travel Writing

Just because you can’t survive in the West with $15 per day doesn’t mean you can’t survive in the east.   If you put off everything till retirement you’ll grow old fast.  Start enjoying life now while you still can.

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