Hey guys! It's Gabby and it is day I mean like eleven... thirteen... of being a full
time travel blogger and as you can see my environment has changed a bit and I'm
going to touch on that first of all I'm sorry that this is not exactly a one
week of being a full time travel blogger update a lot of you know that some crazy
stuff happened to me which I will explain more a little bit more in the
caption of this video but it's really not that big of a deal
well like I did anyway you can read more in the caption but about my travel
blowing journey I am currently in Savannah Georgia as a guest a visit
Savannah I my press trip a fam trip and if you don't know what that is that is
where usually tourism boards like this fan out will bring journalists media
travel bloggers videographers everything like that the creatives to their
destination to make content and sell it or publish it and usually it's a comp
strip which means that I don't come out of pocket for it but I do do work for
them so it's not free I do a lot of work I've done a lot of work on this trip but
that's the only reason I'm in a very nice hotel like this and that's one of
the things I really wanted to touch on in this video is that this is kind of
the reality for a lot I would say majority of trial bloggers majority of
travel bloggers as creatives do not make it to the big big time where they make
millions every month and they are they own they do run conferences and
everything this is the reality a lot are like me I'm gonna go back to my mom's
house and stay in my room after this but I have the resources with this trip to
portray an image like I do this all time and I can create content here that could
last six months and if I don't tell you you wouldn't know otherwise so I just
want to kind of break that barrier between reality and fantasy and tell you
that I would majority of travel bloggers are living
like this they're going on press trips or splurging for content and they live
normal lives they do not do this all the time so it's it's very convincing it's
very engaging to see me in a crisp white robe with like all this fancy stuff and
I mean let me stop right there visit Savannah has been absolutely amazing you
should come to Savannah Georgia it has been so so fun they're not paying me to
say this it's it's so it's been a great time here and this is all very nice and
like aesthetically it excites me to be here but the reality that I want you
guys to know despite what I put on my Instagram which is curated you should
know that's not my life 100% of time despite the stories I share which are
true but just not my entire life and they're no one's entire life 99% of the
people are normal travel bloggers so I really want you guys to know that but it
doesn't take away the fact that I'm excited to be here so one week into my
well almost two weeks into my full time travel blogging this I'm on a press trip
which I think is very exciting and I'm very excited for the content that I'm
going to create having been here I had that collaboration with Delta which was
insane that was last week clever Dan Instagram posts with them that was
that's just like bucket list I wasn't saying that was great I announced last
week that I will be speaking at the women in travel summit in Kansas City
that is that's gonna be huge and that is gonna host four to five hundred people
yeah it's gonna be really intense and I think I may be one of the younger or if
not the youngest person to ever present there to speak there but I'm ready to
take on the challenge and that's that's gonna be huge so between Delta and
speaking at a national travel blogging conference me speaking about Gen Z about
the future of travel and this press trip which has been amazing and it's been the
vacation I've needed after a little bit of a whirlwind yeah
it's been a very good week and that's the second point I want to drive home
that along with this not being my reality hundred percent of time this
will not be the reality of travel blogging full time all the time I know P
times that it will not look like this there'll be times where things go wrong
but it's been a very good week thus far and that's my truth and that it does
excite me so fingers crossed that this is just the beginning of even more
amazing things which I know it will be but that the lows are not too low but
the highs continue to fly so thanks update in one month