I started Practical Wanderlust in June I wanted to have a travel diary for our year-long honeymoon : a way to record our experiences for our family and friends, and perhaps share information with other travelers. Always mindful of my budget, I hoped to perhaps grow Practical Wanderlust enough during our trip to help offset some of our travel expenses after we returned: maybe with the odd discounted hotel stay, here and. What if, I wondered, I might actually be able to make real money off of Practical Wanderlust? That would nearly pay for our annual travel budget! I. Sure, in the travel blogging sphere it seemed like every full time blogger was also a digital nomad, permanently living out of a suitcase in somewhere that cost a lot less than the US, but. It seemed reasonable.