Toronto and Scarborough oh man what's of nature paradise I'm sure

you'll have seen our tiny house in the woods video by now it is our final night

here so we thought we would shoot a little Q&A and I know we're dressed a

bit ridiculous right now I'm basically trying to cover every sort of my boxer

mosquito where it's mosquito where I also have a jacket in case they come

I'll get like a fishing shared a breathable fishing shirt and I've got a

cabin sleepwear and we've got a lovely fire going we have our graham crackers

marshmallows chocolate so I'm still have half of that kit left yes so yeah we

asked you guys over Instagram to submit your questions we've selected the most

popular ones and we will be answering them all the juicy gossip oh all right

well let's just dive right into it yeah and we gotta get them right so number

one how do you make money Oh shall I stir it yeah go ahead okay so

honestly we've been doing this travel thing probably for about seven years now

and over those seven years we have earned money in very different ways

first off like our first year of travel we had saved up money teaching English

in Korea so yeah we had those savings we weren't too stressed and we were also

trying to get our blogs going our websites going so they would start

earning money later on we also started doing some freelance writing I was

writing for travel and escape we were both writing for Expedia so we started

off actually more with our websites yeah we did start recording video when we

were still living in Korea and our first trip but it was at a very how could I

say amateur level had no idea what we were doing we were editing a Windows

Movie Maker yeah we were using cameras that didn't have good audio quality back

then external mic not even we worried we

weren't even at the camcorder stage no no yeah video was more of a hobby yes it

wasn't making us any money so we were just doing it for fun and honestly at

the beginning it was like awkward skits that we were filming in your apartment

it wasn't even travel-related those have all been made private don't under them

please so yeah it's only in the past I don't know three or four years that

YouTube has kind of become yeah our main thing like we really enjoy making videos

it also brings in money through YouTube Adsense sometimes we team up with um

tourism boards to make videos with them and like we also sell a lot of footage

behind the scenes so like will sell our video footage for documentaries or music

videos just random stuff yeah we've sold our photography so really it's like we

make money lots of different ways like we have multiple income stream multiple

income streams yeah maybe half of that super smore here

we go how about that you get you wanted to you

want to have the first one so I'll keep going okay I'll keep explaining sure

so yeah multiple income streams is really the key that allows us to do this

full-time we have our personal blogs oh yeah those make money - yeah we have our

we have three YouTube channels we have the English Channel the Spanish Channel

I have an older channel in the past we had some more websites which allowed us

to earn money through advertising and display ads then it's it's occasionally

working with brands tourism boards freelance writing and that's what allows

us to keep going if we were if we had all all of our our eggs in one basket it

would be very very difficult to make all of this because one thing we've learned

is that these income streams are very very volatile especially during a

pandemic guy yeah so the key really I think to doing well in this

in this industry is to it's to come at it from multiple income sources and to

always be creating new new ones something succeed some things fail but

it's and I think it's good to experiment right not everything you try is going to

work out the way you hoped yeah but you always learn lessons from that that you

can take into your next project massively you learn more from your

failures a lot of times than you do from your success good point

you really there's a lot of life lessons to be learned when something does it

work yeah absolutely so that is the long answer for how we make money how we

afford to travel and stay on the road on that point I should also mention the

reason we're able to be gone so much of the year is because we're not paying for

an apartment back home we don't have a car like we're not paying for car

insurance like we don't have a mobile plan cable none of those expenses so

what we would be spending in like normal life being in one place yeah we just

spend it on accommodations and travel around the rail that's one of the bigger

myths is that travel has to be expensive and it doesn't like that we know people

that have you know that they've become nomadic we're not we're no longer

nomadic ourselves but some of our friends who are nomadic spend less money

on the road than they do living at home and usually that usually it depends on

where you come from and that's at you in Europe in North America yeah like Canada

US Australia certain parts of maybe northern Western Europe and if you're

basing yourself in a country like Thailand or somewhere like that you can

you can easily be nomadic and be spending less money yeah yeah all right

that was question number one yeah marshmallow or a s'more number two

somewhere number two I should never choose just in time for question number

two so as we prepare s'more number two the question is do you see yourself

doing this type of work for the rest of your life or do you have other plans for

the future well can I start with this shirt

I need to swallow the chocolate first oh my that is so sugary wait a sec I'm glad

you bought what also water want to keep that in the middle oh I'm gonna need

some too not your mine Oh cheap chocolate um I think travel is

always going to be a part of our lives just because it's our passion yeah we

really enjoy it we love discovering new places and experiencing new cultures new

languages new food so that's always going to be in the picture video we also

have a lot of fun editing video like even if we weren't making money with it

it's kind of like a hobby we enjoy doing it I could say out of the three things

that we do writing photography video videos my favorite yeah and that's

probably for you too yeah yeah and that's why we do spend most of our time

creating videos so I will say that travel and making videos will always be

a part of our lives in some capacity but long-term yes we do have other plans the

work we have other exciting projects yeah announce it at the moment but

because there's a pandemic and everything has kind of been put on hold

but yeah there's some projects that we've been dreaming up and kind of

working on behind the scenes for a few years that may be what people to tell

you about next year yeah I really hope so so like we want to be able to

announce something when it's actually been started that's what we'll say about

that yeah but in terms of this being our career yeah we we feel like well right

we feel extremely fortunate to be able to do this as our jobs because we used

to do this as a hobby like yeah I used to save up all my money I earned

overseas teaching English in Korea and I would go travel until I ran out and I

did that a few times so I mean travels truly was our passion we met each other

through our travel blogs yeah and um this one mine yeah and yeah so that's uh

that's what I've got to say well before I eat this all right question number

three would you ever live in a different country where'd you like answer that one

sure well we have yeah we used to live in South Korea for a while um absolutely

I'm to me one of the greatest lessons are

not lessons experiences you can have in your life it's to go from the country

you're from and spend spend time somewhere that's especially if it's

somewhere quite different from where you came from yeah yeah I mean it's um a

great opportunity you'll learn more about yourself you'll learn more about

other cultures languages different a great way to get different work

experience and network and I will say like during the years that we were

nomadic we did do longer stints in certain cities where we got a taste of

what it's like to live there Chiang Mai bean was like my and Berlin would be

examples of things we were like oh we like it here let's stick around for a

while and kind of you're like a local I remember we spent quite a bit of time in

Hong Kong and back now our travel preferences have changed a little bit

yeah we started to prefer smaller places we still still like going to cities but

we were really into big cities for a while mm-hmm and we were really enamored

by Hong Kong like five or six years ago actually before we decided to go back to

school in Canada we we explored a considered explore doing the same degree

program in Hong Kong would have been a lot more expensive the cost was what

ended up yeah the deciding factor yeah yeah it would have been more than double

or triple we would have had to pay international student fees and things

like that I believe and that was the that was the deal breaker another

marshmallow number four do you have a five-year plan or do you live day by day

week by week month by month Wow well I could totally I could totally see

why people would think we might live day by day when you watched our videos on

our Channel it probably just seems like I'm just gallivanting and winging it but

we do have we definitely do have long term business and personal goals

absolutely yeah I would say definitely yeah we do have long-range plans like

five-year plans we also have one year plans and we also have like monthly

plans too yeah honestly I feel like having goals keep

be motivated right it's like okay this is what I want to accomplish let's start

working towards it so yeah I'm definitely the kind of person who likes

sets goals makes lists I don't keeps track of things and yeah I like progress

there's definitely there's definitely was definitely pending goals although I

would say four or five years ago we were winging it a bit more for sure when we

were backpacking yeah I'd say here one and two we were winging

him yeah and that was totally fun yeah yeah totally fun like where do you want

to go next we're in Malacca what should we do

should we hop on a ferry hop on a train I told her I remember that situation

we're like are we going to Indonesia are we gonna take a flight to Cambodia are

we gonna continue on to Singapore look we we changed our mind by like three

times a day but we also had fewer responsibilities right you'll also

probably probably notice too that if you hadn't have been following our channel

for several years we don't we don't gallivant around the world the way we

used to like we tend to focus more on on a particular region or country and go a

little bit more in depth yeah in the past we were just here and there

is like zigzagging all over the globe yeah and yeah we prefer to go a little

more in-depth now and it's a travel a bit slower yeah okay let's see you next

question do you want to have kids someday yes yes yes we do want to have

kids I'd like to I think sometimes Sam wants three yeah yeah I mean I'm not

popping one out this year or in the immediate future I'm actually going to

be an aunt in a matter of days maybe by the time this video goes up already be

an aunt yeah that's not so true that's so true

auntie auntie you can do it I think it said both ways to be honest yeah so I'm

really excited for that maybe that'll give me

some some practice right yeah babe but nothing in the immediate future yeah