#world travel

While most people make money so they can save to travel the world, Audrey Bergner travels the world to make money. She travels full time as a blogger, photographer, YouTuber, and freelance travel writer. How was she able to achieve the lifestyle that so many bitten with wanderlust dream of? 

“I enjoy talking to strangers and getting to know their stories, using smiles and gestures when words fail, sharing new foods with people I’ve just met, strolling local food markets, and getting lost down narrow streets,” she says on her website. She’s had quite the adventures: she’s camped out with Bedouins, been through a mind maze in Prague, climbed an active volcano in Bali, and ridden a train that derailed in the jungle of northern Thailand, to name a few experiences. 

So what’s her advice for someone who wants to explore the world but doesn’t know where to begin? Her first suggestion is that your first venture is somewhere where the language and culture is similar. For example, Americans should try Scotland, Australia, or New Zealand. “Of course, this is just a suggestion: you could hop on a plane to India or Brazil if you wanted and I’m sure you’d figure things out along the way,” she told me. “It’s just that being in a country where you understand the language is usually easier to handle when you’re first starting out.”

Bergner has more advice on planning trips ahead of time. She books her airline tickets well ahead of time and accommodations for the first few days of my trip, but from then on its all spontaneous. “The reason why I don’t plan everything out in advance is that travel is full of surprises,” she said. “Sometimes you fall in love with a destination and you want to extend your stay, and sometimes you hate the plac and you can’t wait to leave…So plan, but don’t overplan!”

And then comes the final worry, the one that blocks many from their travel dreams: finances. She had reassurance for those woes, too: “As cliche as it may sound, if you’re determined to make it happen, it will.” Read herehow another blogger saved for her trips (hint: you’re probably going to have to give up your morning Starbucks and spend some weekends in, but it’ll be more than worth it). 

Humphrey’s head

Nature walks

Coffee time

Beautiful Scotland

Love these tall windows and potted plants

Finding cute places to have brunch

Picnic bench in the middle of this lush forest

Like a bridge over troubled water….

Cute cottage in hyde park

Breakfast at the ‘waterside cafe’ in 'little venice’ (london)

Cute cottage

Flowers make all the difference

The great British country side, Ingelton falls

I made 3 new friends

Entrance to the Peace Gardens for Muslims who died fighting in WW2

Red door

Edinburgh Mosque

One of the most elaborate building facade in Glasgow. Shame it’s facing a noisy motorway with bad air pollution.

[Edinburgh] no matter where you look in Edinburgh, it’s always very picturesque!

Japan is slowly opening it’s borders for foreigners! That’s means we will be able to resume our yearly New Year’s pilgrimage to Tokyo this year!

We’ve both had our booster booster, always wear masks, and of course wash our hands…so while I still worry, not as much.

I started missing Japan recently, so I sketched out these sweet middle school girls that I photographed while in Kyoto!