2019Īfter the four Remote Year months were over, 2018 had ended and we were still traveling full-time. Because of our roles in the Remote Year content creation team, we were also able to hang out with social media managers and other bloggers, thereby trading tips and seeing how one another worked.
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It was a perfect opportunity for us, as we also spent some time growing our blog, making SEO improvements and trying new things. We learned a lot about the business of social media. We went to Ireland and Tenerife in the Canary Islands, with a quick stop in Madrid. We spent a bit of time up in Estonia and then to Latvia. But instead of being apart, we did this together! We went through places in Europe, like Prague, Lisbon and Amsterdam. In June in 2018, we decided to travel full-time long-term again. An example of this is, “Foreign Currency Tips and Tricks Before Traveling Abroad”. Some of these have been repeatedly very helpful for viewers, having stemmed from questions that friends asked us. Now, we don’t post to this section as frequently, but we’re always brainstorming new and exciting topics to cover.
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Our travel advice articles started by covering things like how to get a visa. These would be evergreen articles that could help people plan trips and succeed in traveling, even if destinations went in and out of style. We started to branch out from our travel guides and realized that we had learned a lot of different travel tips that have helped us travel seamlessly around the world. We learned how to interpret our analytics, leverage our press backlinks and continued to write travel articles. We would see exciting spikes of traffic when some of our press articles resurfaced. The emphasis here is on ‘slowly,’ but we were patient and patted ourselves on the back for every milestone. We watched as our traffic slowly increased. Our main goal in the first half of 2018 was to teach people the things that we learned through our trips around the world. We covered reviews of hostels, like Abraham Hostel, Tel Aviv and travel tips, like How to Beat the Crowds at Chichén Itzá. We had to carefully balance enjoying our vacation, while taking notes and photos of things that we wanted to incorporate into our blog. This meant one thing: we’d be the perfect team to start a travel website. To top this off, Dan had a year’s worth of travel photos, and Becca was ready to write out her travel guides for the world. Among these places were China, Hong Kong, South Africa, Nicaragua, Ecuador, Japan, Panama, Costa Rica and more. Whenever one of Becca’s friends was going anywhere, they would reach out, and Becca would have a guide ready to send.
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In parallel, Becca had already put together a Google Drive full of travel guides from places that she visited in previous years. It made no sense, because people already knew about our Instagram photos. It had a bit of text about us, with some Instagram photos. Our initial website wasn’t very good, in hindsight. We didn’t want to only be available on Instagram, as sticking to one ‘platform’ is risky. Some of our favorite press mentions were being in print, in Oprah magazine and being covered through the Business Insider network.Īs we started to realize that could eventually turn into a business, we decided to quickly create a web domain to which we could point these news articles when they asked to link us. We received a lot of press that started to snowball from this one article. We didn’t expect to become public figures or ‘go viral’ with this type of creativity. We both had had our personal Instagram accounts since about 2011, but almost exclusively shared personal photos. This new world of social media stardom was new to us. Come January 2017, we had an article about us featured on their site. It was a big hit with our friends.Īfter these nine photos, Dan reached out to an editor from PetaPixel. For this “half-half photo,” we planned the whole thing, down to the angle from which we’d take our photos, and everything. Becca made it from both our coffees, with hers in Manhattan and Dan’s in England. This was our first photo in October, 2016. It was a way for us to stay connected to each other, while we were very far apart. In this account, we would share our photos from where we both were, and put them together to make one photo. We’re so glad we did!Ī few months into Dan’s trip, Becca had an idea to start an Instagram account together. We didn’t expect to stay together during this year, but at the last minute, we decided to give it a try. It was in February of 2016 that Dan decided to travel for a year with a remote work-travel program called Remote Year. See, we met not too long before this in December of 2015.
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In 2016, Dan was traveling full-time and Becca was in New York City, where we both met.ĭuring Dan’s journey of working remotely and traveling, we decided to date long-distance.