New Mobile Office for Travel Tales
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For a full understanding of what we're asking do why, please visit our website We Travel and Blog
But here's the short of it:
We've been providing you, our faithful readers, with stories, free of charge, for the last 3 years. Blogging has been a giant investment of our time and money, and by doing it, we need to travel around with equipment we'd rather not have. Freedom's just another word for noting left to lose, and to travel with the gear necessary for the images, videos, and stories that we share, we have to sacrifice a whole lot of our traveling piece of mind.
Now short a computer after it got snatched from our van, while we were sleeping in it, we have no way to continue blogging. We could, of course, get a new one. It would require for us to invest more money, which means time away from travel, into our blog.
Just a few weeks ago, we were really excited for the months to come. Before the fiasco with the computer, I was in the middle of redesigning the site and had weaved together a fabulous team of photographers and storytellers from different parts of the world to transition We Travel and Blog into a collective, in order to add more fuel to the travel inspiration and help spread our message of ethical travel by incorporating local voices and stories.
What's more, just days before, we were selected by http://holidaylettings.co.uk/ as one of the top twenty photography blogs of 2015. It seems this year, the fire was really getting going with the blog.
However, we're currently looking at this as a test of our intentions, and of our readership.
We'd like to know how much our stories are worth to you. If you enjoy our tales, if you're at all inspired, if you ever read something we wrote, or saw a picture we took and thought "hey, that's pretty cool!" If you'd like to see more of what we've been up to and what we have up our sleeve, please consider that we've invested the last three years of our lives into this full time job, traveling, yes, but working while we do, to bring you inspiration and help teach the world to travel more ethically. Please consider that, while we do have a great time collecting stories and putting them together, we've never charged for any of it, and have put in a substantial amount of our own money into it. We've opened up a GoFundMe campaign to raise the funds to purchase a new "work station" which means a laptop and the Adobe creative suite. Dependent on how well the campaign does, we'll consider the investment of our readership, versus the investment that we have to continue to put in to keep the blog going and propel it to the next level. We'll weigh out the scales and make a decision on whether, at this point in our lives, we'd rather focus on simply enjoying our travels, or if we would be making as big a mistake dropping the blogging ball as I almost made trying to sell Big Blu.
It's going to cost us about $4,000 CAD to get back up on our feet and continue bringing you stories. Of course, we don't expect to raise the full amount, but if everyone reading this post right now gave us just a dollar, we'd be able to take a large chunk off of our out-of-pocket expenses.
Although we do think it is fair to ask for a bit of compensation for our hard work, we also understand that some people our there feel that donations are just another word for getting nothing for something. Because of this we've added some reward levels. You'll find prints of Gabriel's photography, as well as some van life adventures with us as part of the rewards system.
Is anyone out there? Is anyone listening? Should we keep plugging away at this? Or is it time to just soak in the moment and keep these few upcoming years' worth of adventure for ourselves? What is our blog worth to you? Do you want to hear more from us? If you do, please consider throwing us a bone, and know that we'll forever be grateful for your generosity, whatever the outcome.
As always, thanks for reading.
But here's the short of it:
We've been providing you, our faithful readers, with stories, free of charge, for the last 3 years. Blogging has been a giant investment of our time and money, and by doing it, we need to travel around with equipment we'd rather not have. Freedom's just another word for noting left to lose, and to travel with the gear necessary for the images, videos, and stories that we share, we have to sacrifice a whole lot of our traveling piece of mind.
Now short a computer after it got snatched from our van, while we were sleeping in it, we have no way to continue blogging. We could, of course, get a new one. It would require for us to invest more money, which means time away from travel, into our blog.
Just a few weeks ago, we were really excited for the months to come. Before the fiasco with the computer, I was in the middle of redesigning the site and had weaved together a fabulous team of photographers and storytellers from different parts of the world to transition We Travel and Blog into a collective, in order to add more fuel to the travel inspiration and help spread our message of ethical travel by incorporating local voices and stories.
What's more, just days before, we were selected by http://holidaylettings.co.uk/ as one of the top twenty photography blogs of 2015. It seems this year, the fire was really getting going with the blog.
However, we're currently looking at this as a test of our intentions, and of our readership.
We'd like to know how much our stories are worth to you. If you enjoy our tales, if you're at all inspired, if you ever read something we wrote, or saw a picture we took and thought "hey, that's pretty cool!" If you'd like to see more of what we've been up to and what we have up our sleeve, please consider that we've invested the last three years of our lives into this full time job, traveling, yes, but working while we do, to bring you inspiration and help teach the world to travel more ethically. Please consider that, while we do have a great time collecting stories and putting them together, we've never charged for any of it, and have put in a substantial amount of our own money into it. We've opened up a GoFundMe campaign to raise the funds to purchase a new "work station" which means a laptop and the Adobe creative suite. Dependent on how well the campaign does, we'll consider the investment of our readership, versus the investment that we have to continue to put in to keep the blog going and propel it to the next level. We'll weigh out the scales and make a decision on whether, at this point in our lives, we'd rather focus on simply enjoying our travels, or if we would be making as big a mistake dropping the blogging ball as I almost made trying to sell Big Blu.
It's going to cost us about $4,000 CAD to get back up on our feet and continue bringing you stories. Of course, we don't expect to raise the full amount, but if everyone reading this post right now gave us just a dollar, we'd be able to take a large chunk off of our out-of-pocket expenses.
Although we do think it is fair to ask for a bit of compensation for our hard work, we also understand that some people our there feel that donations are just another word for getting nothing for something. Because of this we've added some reward levels. You'll find prints of Gabriel's photography, as well as some van life adventures with us as part of the rewards system.
Is anyone out there? Is anyone listening? Should we keep plugging away at this? Or is it time to just soak in the moment and keep these few upcoming years' worth of adventure for ourselves? What is our blog worth to you? Do you want to hear more from us? If you do, please consider throwing us a bone, and know that we'll forever be grateful for your generosity, whatever the outcome.
As always, thanks for reading.
Organiser
Jade Adele
Organiser
Verdun, QC
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