A Month In Venice

I am sure many of my readers are fully aware that priceline.com can offer huge savings for the buget traveler. However many are not fully aware of how to properly utilize this website in order to get the cheapest price that priceline.com will accept. Well it turns out there is another website called biddingfortravel.com whose sole purpose is to promote informed bidding using priceline.com travel deals.

So in order to get the best deal with priceline.com it would be advantageous to first check biddingfortravel.com to see what was the lowest accepted offer for a particular state or country. I will say that it would be a really great idea to make sure that you first familiarize yourself with biddingfortravel.com and priceline.com terms and conditions before attempting to make any bid.

Using both websites is a great way to potentially save some serious money on your next flight or hotel or even car rental for that matter. Hopefully this might just save you hundreds if not thousands of dollars over time.

Okay I have now just started to monetize my blog. Even though I have only a  few posts I believe it is never too late to start getting some sort of return on investment. The first thing I did was insert the buy me a coffee plugin by Ankesh Kothari. Actually it is a buy me a beer plugin but since I do not drink at the moment I made it into a buy me a espresso plugin. The primary reason for doing this was to see how many people would help contribute to my trip to Venice, Italy so that I can immerse myself in the culture and learn the language.

So the question is how many cups of espresso will it take for me to go to Venice, Italy? Well at this time I am budgeting a trip cost of $7000.00 dollars so at 5.25 per cup of espresso so that is roughly 1333 cups of espresso. So either I will be extremely wired if I take all that coffee or I can have a trip to Venice. I would rather have the trip to Italy so if you do contribute rest assured that is where the money is going.

Anyways I hope to write some killer content down in the future to justify this plugin.

In my surfing the web I come across many travel websites. Many of them are fairly good with some useful information, some of which I actually use. However once in a while you come across a great resource, a blog that just never disappoints. In this case I am talking about the Budget Globetrotting website. This website is geared towards the budget traveler with an emphasis on international travel and backpacking.

The demographics for this website seem to be geared towards the younger crowd and not necessarily for the older more seasoned traveler. That is not to say that those who are older will not find the information indispensable, rather it seems like the information is geared towards the college age student. Since the author of the blog is about to enter college this only make sense.

Since this blog was just accepted into the Trusted Travel Blogs Network I am assuming that this author can be trusted to give accurate information. Unbiased information from “non-evil” sources seems to be in demand these days. I can perfectly understand the motive to create a network of trusted travel blogs as there are many spammy blogs out on the web today hoping to cash in on the Adsense rush.

Hopefully you will find this blog to be just as great of a resource as I did.

Now I have never been published in the field fo travel writing. Perhaps it shows in this blog. However, I am working hard to improve my skills and I regularly read some really great travel blogs. One of them, the TravelMinx, just created a great article on how to write killer travel articles. If you are new to this particular type of writing then I would highly recommend you read this nugget of information.

We all have habits when we travel. Some of us are into photography and others keep a detailed journal of where we have been. However many of those same people do not realize that they can use these habits to help offset their travel costs and even make some money each and every time they travel.

The truly innovative are the one’s that can take any activity they normally do for fun and turn it into a profit making venture. I am a big believer in having hobbies that actually pay me money. Not only do I get to do something I enjoy but if I can help offset any travel cost then I am all for that!

Now one may ask what can I do on vacation that will actually make me money? Well for some keeping a profitable blog, such as what I hope to do with this blog, is one method of paying for travel. Perhaps you can use your skills with the English language to teach it to others, this is very popular in countries such as China, South Korea or anywhere English is deemed to be an important language. This will not only pay for a long extended stay in a country but you may be able to develop a side business as well.

Others are keen photographers and sell their photos on iStockphoto.com or other similar web sites. Others have developed key relationships with members of the business community just so that they can start an import/export business. While I am unfamiliar with that aspect of travel I find the subject fascinating and definitely worth looking into. I believe that there are opportunities everywhere you look.

The only difference between one who is successful at traveling is the questions you ask yourself and those around you. Perhaps I should expand on this a bit more as I research the subject myself. I will let you know what I find out.