A travel blog is a modern day scrapbook of your journey. Unlike traditional, physical scrapbooks that wear with age and fingerprints, a blog can remain a permanent fixture, which allows you to go back and read through your journey years later and it will remain virtually untouched.
Or, if you continue on with travels throughout your life, the blog has endless possibilities for expansion and can only get better with more articles and photos added, rather than fill up like its traditional counterpart. And when there are so many ways to build your own website there is no excuse to not get started on your own masterpiece right away!
The best travel blogs are the ones with the interesting articles filled with personal anecdotes and images that let the reader feel like they are on the journey with you. With each article published, not only does the quality of the site increase, but also the documentation of the journey is further cemented. A personal travel blog is your way to make sure your memories are saved and that you can always have the chance to look back and see what you’ve experienced.
As well as acting as your personal space for experiences, a travel blog can also build bridges between you and other travelers in the area. Life on the road can get lonely at times, and sometimes it is great to connect to others who are sharing the same practices. You can get connected with others and by getting involved with more serious travel blog networks such as TBEX.
As well as connecting with the other bloggers around you, a travel blog is also an ideal way to connect to family and friends back home. You can keep everyone updated in one place and therefore reduce the responsibility to call each individual person. Loved ones usually enjoy being able to share in part of your experiences and articles with your favorite memories and moments are a great way to allow them to do that. So far we’ve mentioned the most obvious reasons to start a travel blog: to document your experiences and to connect with others both home and abroad. But there are also some other ways that a travel blog can be a great idea.
The “responsibility” that comes with maintaining a website that others read and follow can be just the motivation you need to keep yourself adventurous and not slip into a lazy travel existence (if that is even possible). Perhaps you are deciding whether you want zip line through the Amazon… fear may be a reason that you choose not to do it, but maybe, just maybe, the idea that it would make a great blog article that could help your site and increase your readership could give you the little extra push to face your fear.
Another thing that travel blogs do, usually unintentionally, is inspire others who may not think a nomadic lifestyle is a possibility for them. Reading about the exciting adventures of people that decided they didn’t want to settle for the traditional 9-5 lifestyle can make readers feel that they could do the same. Travel bloggers come from all walks of life which gives you no excuse to those not wanting to take the plunge because they are afraid or think they can’t do it.
What do you think some of the other benefits of travel blogs are?
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Guys like you two keep me inspired. I’m always chomping at the bit for a new travel adventure, even if it’s just a day out & about. I love that you too agree it keep you interested & intrigued & reading amazing adventures from other foodie & travel bloggers just keep that old bucket list growing. Win-Win :)
Great points well made here Agness.
A travel blog is a fabulous online diary to keep track of our travels and share it with the world. The days of keeping travel journals and a stack of photo albums are maybe beyond us now.
I think you’ve also hit the nail on the head with one of your points. I must admit that whilst on the road I have sometimes decided to do something because I think it would make a great article for the blog! :-)
Love travel blogs myself! I love getting tips and seeing new destinations to go to!
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I don’t really need any travel blog for inspiration. I already have more ideas and wishes than I can visit in a lifetime. – But I like the ones that include practical trips, like things to see, how to get somewhere, what’s the easiest way to cross a border and so on. – And then I also like those which have a more journalistic or literary quality. I read them instead of reading a magazine.
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I couldn’t agree more. All of this is exactly why I blog, too.
Great to hear that!
That is all so true Agness. It’s a brilliant way to connect with people. I’ve been blogging now for 7 years even though my travelblog is only 3 months or so old. My life would have been seriously different if not for blogging. It changed my career path, made me some amazing friends and has given me loads of opportunities. I don’t know why I didn’t start a travel blog earlier as it would have been perfect but hey. it’s never too late right? Great article!
Hii Agness Walewinder
Nice article and also nice travel blog. I also love to travel. thanks to share amazing inspiration article.
Thanks a lot!! :) I really appreciate your kind words!
Great post. I think the inspiration that you talk of is completely right. When you read what other people are doing and have done then you think ‘why can’t I go there or do that’.
Thank you!!!
I agree! We love travel blogging and there is nothing better than receiving emails from our fans telling us that we have inspired them to travel more often or to places they would never have thought to visit before.
I could read travel blogs for hours :).
I loved reading this again.
There are so many great things about travel blogs. I think you also highlighted one of my favourites about creating them – it is a never ending story :-)
I have a passion of travel. I want to go every historical and natural place, and want to see the beauty of GOD. Mostly i reads travel related article, because that kind of article increases my passion.
It’s great to connect with other travel bloggers through social media and meetings in person. Every blogger I found is very cool. This post is inspiring and makes me want to be on the road and start sharing……….Nice blog!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)
Great Article!!!. Well I’m looking forward to Plan a trip. This information might help in future. Thanks for Sharing.