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We Quit Our Jobs To Travel The World: From Being Broke Backpackers To Luxury Travelers
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We Quit Our Jobs To Travel The World: From Being Broke Backpackers To Luxury Travelers

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In 2013, we quit our jobs to travel the world and unexpectedly met each other in Luang Prabang, Laos. Here’s our story of from being broke backpackers to luxury travellers because of travel blogging.

Jonathan and I met while backpacking in Luang Prabang, Laos. After doing a few months motorbike trip in South East Asia, he was broke and decided to teach English in Hanoi, Vietnam while I was continuing my trip and doing a yoga retreat in Thailand.

We decided to meet again after 2 months of keeping in touch and did a motorbike trip in North Vietnam and from then our love story began.

We both quit our jobs at the same time without even knowing each other – I was working for an Oil company in Kurdistan, Iraq while he’s an Architectural Technologist in the UK. When we started dating, we both knew we didn’t want to return to our old corporate jobs so we had to find ways to sustain our life on the road.

We did so much to keep living our dream. We taught English in Vietnam and Peru, pushed wheelbarrow around the town of Machu Picchu, set up our own massage business. We volunteered in Exchange for bed and food to survive, taught yoga on donation basis only, hitchhiked for hundreds of kilometres to save on transportation and adventure.

Our family and friends told us to start a travel blog but we both didn’t know how to do it, so we studied for months on how to build one. We read a lot of bloggers who are earning a full time income with just blogging. With over a year of continuous travelling, over 35 visited countries in 5 continents, we both thought that we definitely have interesting experiences aside from our unique love story.. so we said why not?

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We invested money on starting a blog – bought a domain, built our social media following and started writing with our intention of making our dreams come true. We both wanted to experience Luxury and we knew that one day it will gonna happen. Focusing on our goals and with our tagline “Monkey Backpackers to Luxury Travelers”, we started working on it.

Slowly we just realized that we’re already doing it – staying in Luxury Penthouse suite, enjoying the private jacuzzi overlooking the sea, riding a private chartered flight, skydiving in Brazil, riding a private yacht in Colombia, exploring the heritage site of Pamukkale, Turkey.

We’re not yet “rich” but I know that when you set your goals, you’ll eventually reach your dreams!

More info: twomonkeystravelgroup.com

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    Kach Medina Umandap

    Kach Medina Umandap

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    Kach is a proud Filipina who quit her corporate job to become a long-term traveler promoting Sustainable Travel Lifestyle. She's also a certified Tantra Yoga teacher, TEFL qualified, Ayurveda Massage Therapist and the Little Brown Monkey behind Two Monkeys Travel Group. Follow her at facebook.com/twomonkeystravel or Twitter - @2monkeystravel

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    Kach Medina Umandap

    Kach Medina Umandap

    Author, Community member

    Kach is a proud Filipina who quit her corporate job to become a long-term traveler promoting Sustainable Travel Lifestyle. She's also a certified Tantra Yoga teacher, TEFL qualified, Ayurveda Massage Therapist and the Little Brown Monkey behind Two Monkeys Travel Group. Follow her at facebook.com/twomonkeystravel or Twitter - @2monkeystravel

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