now today's video we're going to be talking about how i can afford to travel
and i guess the bigger question is how can you do so as well
good morning guys from ubud bali
i have wandered my way into tegalalang rice terraces
i actually haven't been here for literally over a year
and it just it looks like there's literally nobody here besides me and the farmers out here
it's like seven o'clock in the morning, super early
but they've actually closed off a lot of the entrances here to the rice terrace
so there's really not many ways to get in
and the fields are really overgrown so there's really not many paths to go down
making your way to the actual rice fields
but in today's video guys i'm going to be sharing with you guys how i afford to travel
because i've been getting that question quite a lot on youtube and instagram
and i just figured it'd be easier to make a video about it
so just to give you guys a bit of background, i started traveling back in 2018 really
when i moved from the united states to ho chi minh city vietnam
and the goal for me there was to live abroad for at least a year
and the way i was going to make money and fund my travels was through english teaching
now english teaching is such a popular way to fund your travels, that it's really nothing new
now moving to vietnam i had no english teaching experience, all i had was my bachelor's degree
and and some money in my pocket
and how much you asked? well it's about USD 2500, so yeah it literally was not quite that much
and if there's anything i would do differently it would be to bring more money
now luckily i found the job pretty quickly
i'm not going to get too much into the requirements of english teaching
but if you are interested to know how i did it and what you need to do to teach english abroad,
you can just message me down on instagram and i will do my best to answer your questions
now i taught students from ages four years old in kindergarten
all the way up to adults about 50 years old, so i taught literally just about everybody
and teaching english in asia you can make quite a bit of money
anywhere from USD 1500 - 2000 a month if not more, depending on how many hours you work
and what school you're teaching at
now there did come a point where i was getting pretty exhausted in vietnam
with teaching english constantly and it's really not a flexible way of funding your travels
because you're basically working 5-6 times a week or whatever much it may be
and you can only travel so far within those two days that you have off
so by the end of 2018 i had switched over to online teaching
where i was teaching now instead of vietnamese students, i was teaching chinese students online
and the pay is just about the same, you just have to put a little more effort into teaching online
because you don't have that physical interaction with students
so by the end of 2018 i had moved to bali - indonesia, where i am now
and i was teaching english online from a laptop
and the great thing about teaching online is that it's very flexible
you can teach as little hours as you want to or you can teach as many hours as you want to
and the great thing is that you can do it from anywhere in the world as long as you have an internet connection
now that is the only stressful part about teaching online is that
you constantly have to have an internet connection
which now brings me to the beginning of 2020, where by march i had left bali back home to the united states
and i was starting to slow down on english teaching because i was getting to a point where i didn't want to rely on internet
didn't want to rely on english teaching as a source of income to travel
and so i did what i did best which is doing videography and video editing
i had quite a bit of clients that i've worked with in the past
and i basically found as many jobs as i could of video editing and doing videography work
and i literally just saved all that money so that i could start traveling full time in september
and not have to worry about a job at all
all right i'm gonna try to move my way down the rice field a little bit
see because there's no tourists, all the grass is just overgrown and it's a little harder to see the pathways now
wow
another way to stretch out your savings so that you can travel a lot longer is doing brand deals and collaborations
i've done quite a few collaborations in the past when i traveled
and it's a great way to find free accommodation and basically free food as well
in exchange for your services whether that may be photography, videography, which it was for me
or it could be marketing social media, or even website design i've heard people doing that as well
but as somebody that's traveled quite a bit,
accommodation cost is really your your biggest expense when traveling in addition to your food
so if you can collaborate with somebody where you can knock off that expense
it's going to really help you out in the long run
now i think the next two are are probably one of the most important
and that's going to be not only just saving your money and using your savings as much as possible
but also keeping track of your spending
let me just move my way over here because uh i've literally run out of paths to walk here
or at least i can't see them anymore
so one of the things i've started to do is keeping track of my money
and that's really helped me to stay on budget when traveling
because i can really stretch out my money for the entire year that i planned it for
and i feel like if you don't do that you're really just gonna blow through your money pretty quickly
and then six months later you're gonna be wondering where all your money went
now one of the things i've recently started doing is affiliate links as well
so basically i create a link to a product or a service and if anybody clicks that link
because i recommended it to them then i get a small commission out of it
which is very tiny but in the long term it really adds up to quite a bit of money
and wow i think i'm lost now, i think i need to turn around now
it's really hard to tell where i'm going and if there's a path or not
honestly i don't know how the farmers do it here picking the rice here in the hot sun
by the way guys if you aren't familiar with ubud which is where i'm currently at
it's a very central part of bali and most people come out here because it's just so quiet out here
there's so many rice fields, i mean it's so green, it's so beautiful
and if you're wondering what it's currently like with no tourists
well it's literally just that, there's no tourists, so everything is well it's a little harder to find stuff open
and in my opinion there's really not much to do here which is why i do end up staying in the canggu area
but i do have several plans at the beginning of january 2021 to come up here for for a week
gonna be staying at several really cool airbnbs and doing a few adventure activities that i've never done before
and i'm really surprised because most people have done just about everything they raised to do in bali
so it's pretty unique and interesting that i found something that nobody's really done yet
i mean look at this you can't even see where you're walking
well if you guys found this video helpful please give it a like
comment down below any questions about how to fund your travels
you can always dm me on instagram and i'll do my best to answer them
and of course guys please subscribe and i'll see you guys next week!
peace!