Last year I decided that I wanted to start a blog to keep family, friends and stalkers updated on where I was and what I was doing, without all of the nerdy internet stuff mixed in. I started Wanderstruck with this in mind and put in a good effort for a few months but wasn’t able to keep at it the way I had hoped. Earlier this year I gave up and transferred all of the travel posts over to this blog and as a result, Wanderstruck died. R.I.P.
But I still think the domain name is fantastic and I really want to develop something on there, I’m just not really sure what. Here are my ideas, I would love to know what you think.
Travel Magazine Type Site
While writing about travel in general is something I really like, it’s also something that has been done to death and done well by people like Vagabondish, Nomadic Matt and Matador. I had sort of been thinking about possible niches and the best I could come up with was a site dedicated to super long term budget travellers. People that sell all their crap and just go for a lot longer than a year, with few plans for the future and nothing holding them back. While I think I’ve got a few good articles in me, Im not sure how long I would be able to repeatedly come up with good stuff that has’t already been said. I could attempt to attract contributors but that could end up being a lot more work than I’m willing to take on just now.
Africa Independent Travel Site
At this point I know less than nothing about travelling in Africa. For me it is still a scary, dangerous place and, while I know nowhere is ever as bad as ‘they’ say it is, Africa still scares me a bit. But it also fascinates me and seems to be one of the few places in the world that not a lot is written about as far as independent travel goes. I would love to create a site to fill this void, sort of in a similar style to what Travelfish and has done for parts of Asia. Become an expert on a region and do it really, really well. Africa is obviously huge so I might start small with whichever countries I head to first and go from there. I have zero knowledge to share at this stage but I have all the time in the world, a love of slow travel, a huge amount of interest in the area and am up for a bit of an adventure. This is a project I think I could really get behind.
Sell the Site/Domain Name
I’ve also considered just selling the thing. I don’t know the first thing about selling sites or domain names but one person expressed interest, although I’mnot sure for how much. I have a different and really ambitious project in the pipeline involving programmers and designers and all sorts so maybe taking on another big project will be too much and unloading it would be better.
I’m all ears if anyone has any suggestions or comments on the ideas I have. Let me know what you think.
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