well hello everyone a bit of a different video today because we have a lot to talk about first
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yeah we thought it was time to do a sit down video and really tell you guys some updates we
have lots of things to to update you on to catch you up on big changes coming yeah there's some
big changes coming to the channel here as we make our way throughout the video you'll find out about
all of those but let's just talk about how we got into this whole thing this whole
travel game and being travel youtubers now it's certainly not something we ever thought we'd be
and sort of fell into it but we'll just backtrack a bit for for all of you that
don't really know our history we used to have full-time jobs and over the years we've been
trying to work for ourselves which is what we do now and become become i guess they say location
independent and we used to own a big home and we've been downsizing kind of for the last five
or six years and for those of you that are brand new around here our home base is basically halifax
nova scotia we've lived there for a long long time but like trevor said we used to have a home there
and had full-time jobs at one point so while we had the jobs we would take
as much vacation as we could and travel the world as far as we could on you know two or three weeks
vacation we time it around holidays eventually we kind of somehow worked our way into taking months
off at a time i think i left my full-time job first so we kind of go for two months and then
return home but even at that point when we're going two months i i think i'd quit my job at
that point before that we were taking like maybe three weeks four weeks vacation i would take
vacation from my job take some like unpaid leave that kind of thing and then eventually soon after
i left my job as well so you could see we started to just want it to travel more and more and more
and then if we go back a few years we went to the philippines and just when we were both we
both left our jobs and we thought things were going oh so well we all know what happened
the pandemic and we got stuck in the philippines eventually made our way
finally after four months back to canada and nova scotia where we're from and then got stuck
there yeah for like a year and a half year and a half didn't get to do really any traveling at
all because we were basically stuck in our old province we got to do loads of stuff we really
got to discover nova scotia in a way that we never imagined we would we we love where we're from but
at that point i think you could probably imagine we were gearing up to to go for good you know
like to be on the road let's say full time and it was a huge setback and we were very
disappointed of course like everyone everyone had big plans and they all got kind of crushed
so let's take it back uh to last year around this time i think it was like last october we decided
to go to the dominican republic and go live there so at the time there was something still happening
with the pandemic we thought we'd play it safe and we did spend i think eight or nine months
in the beautiful dominican republic and honestly fell in love with the country it felt like
our second home it still feels like our second home when i think about it and our original plan
i think we went in october was to play stay maybe until like the end of january or something like
that yeah and then omicron hits or we're like oh maybe we'll just stick around for a little while
and we were loving it honestly it didn't feel like a sacrifice of anybody any means we loved our life
there and we ended up staying until june so you can see back to the travel bug is is very high in
us and just a few months ago we returned from the dominican republic in turks and caicos we did that
right at the end to nova scotia so that's fairly recent and here we are for the very first time
as we look forward there's a lot of opportunity to kind of live out our dreams so that brings
us to what's about to happen we can finally say and i mean finally finally say we're starting
full-time travel this time we bought a one-way ticket to go somewhere and i'll give a little
spoiler we're in that place now can't believe you just said that i know but you're gonna find out
where so because we're gonna be full time traveling there's gonna be some changes to
the channel so before we get into where we are what our plans are let's talk about how
we set ourselves up because people always always always ask us how we afford to travel like what
our plans are how we do it basically yeah there's there's no um i don't think there's like a clear
path for anyone to do this and if there's anyone else like a digital nomad or people that really
want to do this first step is you have to want to do it there's you're not lucky to do this it's not
handed to you it's a lot of work it's a lot of work and i don't just mean from videos because we
don't just travel because of our youtube videos i mean i wish we realized long ago you need multiple
income streams that's it yeah the way it kind of started off we talked about full-time jobs
trevor is a web designer and worked full-time in that industry for years and eventually started
his own company which i when i quit my job joined him to work with him so we have we do have a web
design company and we we don't talk about the website company enough so if you need a website
signed let us know because we do that we have designed some of our subscribers websites and
other youtube creators so yeah we do that as well so we never say that enough also we have
the youtube channel that does help us make money we get sponsors and videos and thank you guys for
watching those sponsors and sometimes buying the products that really helps us kind of get on the
road we used to own a house you heard me say that we downsized over time sold it we own a
condo in halifax and we own a tiny house which is uh in blue by resort in cape breton at the top of
nova scotia if you want to see more about the tiny house we have very very recent videos about that
so you don't have to go back very far yeah so yeah we also have a blog that we're working on growing
and we're trying to do some stuff on facebook so as you can see i don't even know how many
things i just there's a lot of each other it's a lot of juggling but there's about five or six um
different income streams there some of them are better than others of course but uh that's kind
of a good way to how to do this we also have patreon uh and you can join our youtube channel
if you want to do that you don't have to the videos will always be free but big thanks for
all of you guys that do we have a lot of channel members and uh patreons and without you guys
without you guys i don't know if we do this and i think if it's not something that interests you
keep in mind i think you sort of just mentioned it but we do get sponsored a lot in our videos
and it really helps if you're interested in one of the products to click on it and purchase they
actually the people that sponsor us actually can see that stuff and they like it when people buy
stuff all right it's time to take them outside here look at this place any guesses just based
on the stairwell even the region it's funny because we have this dark stairwell that's uh
like an elevator behind us there and then to get outside we have this uh well big door look at this
right so you guys can probably see the background here any any guesses any guesses to where we might
be you can leave us a comment below we're going to tell you in just a moment but those of you that
have been following on instagram i already know the answer to this because we've been
doing some stories here and there so i'm i'm going to assume that most of you can tell that
maybe this is europe we'll tell you that right now look if you go this way you can see like
a structure over there so we are in europe but are you ready we thought we'd kick off full-time
travel in sicily we're in sicily in italy and we could not be more excited and we cannot be more
hungry because that's what you come here for we're just on our way to the pizza place now but i know
we mentioned full-time travel and you guys are probably like what does that all mean so we're
gonna fill you in over some pizza two big beers and yes they are peroni and two pieces of pizza
13 euros gonna get used to those prices especially after being in very expensive canada for a couple
of months but you're probably wondering like what does this mean for our channel are things
going to change a lot well yes and no we're going to continue to have loads and loads and loads of
travel content even more than ever because we are going to be traveling full time we're not
even really consider halifax home anymore even though it will be a place we continue to return
to but we're going to be traveling so much another thing to think about here is that when we were
in dominican republic we really enjoyed the slow aspect of it of really learning about a place and
getting to spend a lot of time there and not being rush rush rush and go go go all the time getting
to relax into a place a little bit i'm gonna be doing a lot more of that i'm halfway through this
pizza already it was a square i promise and it is delicious as it looks now we mentioned full-time
travel that is of course the biggest announcement but because of full-time travel it is going to
change many things and what we do the biggest is we're going to slow down we learn that in the
dominican republic we like to go a little slower sometimes we might go a little faster but here's
the thing we're gonna be looking for while we're traveling the globe we're going to be looking for
places where we could potentially live or spend a lot of time like we did in the dominican republic
so that's going to make it really fun so sometimes we might get to a place another country let's say
or this country and we might realize right away like this is the spot for us and we'll just not
make any plans stay put and go from here and see what we think do we like living like a local do we
like the food do we like the city do we like the beach town we're really excited about this because
it sets us up in the future with just maybe more options on what we want to do as we get older so
needless to say all of our goals in all of our dreams are coming true right now it's been a lot
of years to get to this point we just gave you the update but here we are and we're starting it
all in sicily so of course if you want to follow along be sure to hit that subscribe button if you
haven't already and the little notification bell so you actually know when our videos come out
like the video leave us a comment all of those things and a big thanks to our patreons and our
channel members i think right now we're just going to finish up our peyroni italian beer and call it
a day because we got a lot of planning to do with future videos so obviously the next video is going
to be here in palermo we're going to be exploring everything hopefully will be our first impressions
but what do we think about palermo yeah and don't worry we'll be eating more food as well
absolutely all right guys that's it from palermo wishing you delightful travels see you soon