I'm a travel blogger. Hold up. No I'm most certainly not.

As I get a kick out of the chance to state, I'm only a blogger. I happen to travel more often than not so I expound on travel more often than not as well. Perhaps that makes me a travel blogger, I don't have a clue.




I expound on other stuff too, including the extreme circumstances I confront, and the infrequent, yet genuine, mental breakdowns I've experienced.

In the event that I don't have anything to state by any means, I'll even expound on that.

What I won't compose is stuff that makes you, the peruser, get a bogus thought of travel. I'm not going to disclose to you that travel is simply bloom gardens and frozen yogurt sundaes. I won't reveal to you that, with no exertion by any means, you can skip far and wide as you prefer, experienced the majority of your travel dreams. I'll never disclose to you that the travel life I'm living is so extraordinarily astonishing that some other way of life you pick is only an exercise in futility, a misuse of life.

I'm not going to disclose to you that everybody with a blog is having a great time on the shoreline either, working 2 hours for every day, filling our time with relentless exercises and encounters that whatever remains of the world can just dream of. Also, I won't disclose to you that you can have that way of life as well on the off chance that you simply snap your fingers. You can attempt, and you'll most likely get pretty darn great at snapping, however it just ain't genuine.


The same number of you know, will come out with the plain truth, decently well. Travel and blogging, while it's regularly unimaginably charming for me, is not generally great circumstances and I have no issue expressing that.

Long haul travel is truly simply one more way of life. Blogging is truly simply one more occupation.

For me it has some incredible advantages yet it absolutely isn't the best way to live, or the most remunerating for everybody.

Here's the place I'm running with this…

- When Blogging Becomes Fake-

In the first place, it's no ifs ands or buts a fascinating time. There are an ever increasing number of websites out there each and every day. It's an energizing time, with such a variety of individuals needing to share their undertakings, their insight, their recommendation with others.

What's more, the immense thing about blogging is that there are no standards. Everybody's allowed to give it a shot, to blog as they see fit. I want to get notification from new bloggers who are anxious to begin and energetic about where their endeavors may lead. That sort of vitality is precisely what inspires others to make sense of what is vital in their own lives and to make the important modification towards a more joyful presence.

In any case, as with any field, now and then that underlying energy, particularly if things possibly don't work out as expected immediately, can transform into something else. Because of a wrong picture that long haul travel is frequently connected with – the only consistent blossoms and frozen yogurt sundae picture – it ends up plainly enticing to demand that the way of life we longed for is precisely the way of life we've made, notwithstanding when it's definitely not.

One thing prompts another and after a short time, blogging turns into somewhat, well, fake. The lives and ventures being discussed are not the lives and voyages that are really occurring.

The thing I don't comprehend is that it's flawlessly alright for things to not work out the way we envisioned. What's more, it's likewise alright to tell our perusers about it as opposed to attempting to keep up the picture that we're experiencing the fantasy every single moment of every last day.

Being stayed in a lodging for 18 hours for every day taking a shot at a portable PC, gaining a few hundred dollars for every month and attempting to expound on travel encounters that you really don't have room schedule-wise or cash to share in, is fine. We as a whole experience that stage.

Simply come out with the simple truth of the matter. It would be significantly more helpful than attempting to claim something that isn't really happening.

Obviously, there are numerous, numerous greatly authentic bloggers out there. There are a huge amount of extraordinary individuals striving to keep up their voyaging ways of life, individuals who speak the truth about their work and what they experience and what's required with making an existence of travel.

- Disappointment-

It's quite recently that the more I find what number of stories out there don't really coordinate a man's world in any capacity, the more baffled I get.

The reason I'm composing this post is on account of at the beginning of today I caught wind of yet another travel blogger who is carrying on with an existence that is so definitely not quite the same as the fantasy life they portray on their blog. The life so loaded with interminable, magnificent travel encounters, and pain free income, that they tell individuals again and again can be accomplished so effectively, is not what they are living. When I discovered that this individual really leases a modest studio flat, is scarcely ready to manage the cost of sustenance, never wanders outside and essentially does nothing that could be named 'travel', I couldn't trust it.

A few bloggers invest months in a goal without really becoming more acquainted with the place by any means, while expounding on it as though they were all over the place investigating each day, and having a great time. The reason they aren't generally out there is on the grounds that, once more, they are frequently dealing with their portable PCs throughout the day so they can bear the cost of a couple of more suppers or their next prepare ticket.

Like I stated, I've been through it all myself.

It's a splendidly fine way of life obviously and there's nothing amiss with it at everything except, once more, it's no programmed dream.

It's a vocation, with a schedule. It's much the same as numerous different employments that any of us do.

So why wouldn't we be able to let it be known? Why do we have to keep up this picture?

- Reality Doesn't Sell-

Happening that there are such a variety of individuals voyaging and expounding on it nowadays that everybody needs to be the ones carrying on with the perfect way of life. Few individuals need to demonstrate the negative side of their own voyages or what they're truly experiencing now and again on the grounds that they would prefer not to be the ones who couldn't make it.

Additionally, such a reality doesn't make for the sort of story that will help you win cash from a blog. It doesn't help offer promoting space or persuade an organization to pay you great cash for a supported post on your site.

Is it safe to say that it isn't ideal to give a genuine take a gander at travel, finish with the high points and low points, the prizes and the battles, so perusers can settle on educated choices concerning regardless of whether they need to attempt to accomplish their own travel objectives?

Is it true that it isn't ideal to give genuine guidance and data, in view of genuine encounters, with the goal that perusers can gain from us in ways that will really be helpful?


Presenting BS doesn't help anybody.

Recently, I likewise found out about a youthful person who concentrated to a great degree hard at college, finishing his degree in software engineering. Upon graduation he found an occupation, his first employment, with an organization that many individuals in his field would dream of working for. He additionally volunteers, plays brandishes and does a large number of the things that he generally needed to do. However he is still very miserable with this way of life now, at age 22, since he all of a sudden wants to drop everything and travel everywhere throughout the world.

Why does he need?

Subsequent to perusing some travel web journals, he felt that he was accomplishing something incorrectly by taking this "typical" employment, by not surrendering the standard routine so as to travel. All things considered, 'every other person' is doing it and making the voyaging life look so natural and great, all while letting him know he'd be a trick not to do it without anyone else's help.

Here's the issue…

- Misleading People Is Not Cool-

Travel is astounding. Long haul travel offers benefits that can completely change your life in ways you would never envision.

In any case, on the off chance that we as travel bloggers don't give an unfiltered reality of what truly matters to our total ways of life, and just concentrate on some perfect way of life that we need others to think we have all the time rather, we're deluding many people.

At the point when travel blogging is making young fellows and ladies feel discouraged on the grounds that they're not out there accomplishing something that others are stating they should do, that is wrong. Particularly when those discussing it may not really be carrying on with that life themselves.

At the point when this happens, travel blogging is no longer filling its need. It just turns out to be more poo in a world loaded with a lot of it as of now.

- Keep It Real and Inspire-

I put stock in moving and spurring individuals. All things considered, there are individuals out there who are always moving and spurring me. We as a whole need that once in a while.

So how about we rouse and inspire through what we know, what we encounter, what we learn through our voyages. We can do that by coming out with the plain truth, by being straightforward. We'll be helping significantly more individuals accomplish their travel objectives therefore.

I realize that I'm not great. It's absolutely been testing staying aware of a blog for a long time and keeping in mind that I attempt my best to adhere to my standards, I'm certain I stray every once in a while too. I'm sure that I do. I attempt to catch myself when it happens and get back on track.

Furthermore, in no way, shape or form was this post intended to be an assault on anybody. Like I stated, the honest to goodness excitement that most new bloggers show as far as needing to help other people accomplish their own travel objectives is praiseworthy and I want to see it myself.

I simply feel that once things go ahead and possibly the cash doesn't come as effectively of course or the way of life isn't what we thought it would be, it ends up noticeably troublesome for some travel bloggers to let it be known. Regardless of whether it's opposition, picture, pay objectives or something else, some vibe as though they don't have any decision however to imagine as though everything is as flawless as we would need it to be, or surprisingly better.

In any case, once more, by not letting it be known, we're messing around with our perusers and with their lives, and that is not travel blogging, at any rate as I would see it.

A debt of gratitude is in order for perusing this post. I know it was a long one. I value you perusing more than you can get it.