Travel Like A @SpartanTravel

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So, check this out! travel like a Spartan Traveler:

Name: Clayton Cornell

Hometown: Bear Valley, California, USA

Residence: Chiang Mai, Thailand

Travel Blog/website: SpartanTraveler.com

Twitter: @spartantravel

Short Bio: I’ve been traveling around the world for the last 2+ years while building a small business on my laptop. SpartanTraveler is my personal travel blog of uncommon travel adventures, logbook of travel hacks, and forum for thoughts on lifestyle design and working in the 21st century.

How did you first get into travel blogging: I’ve been working online since 2007, and this blog was a natural thing to do when I started traveling.

What do you love most about being a travel blogger: Expressing ideas, clarifying my thinking, and helping others.

What’s the secret to creating a successful travel blog: Create value for your readers. Help them as much as possible.

How do you get your blog noticed amongst the millions of other travel blogs out there: Create content that is extremely valuable, then share it with top social media sites.

What advice would you give to fledgling travel bloggers: Study the top blogs in the space an emulate them. Learn good copywriting skills. Enjoy what you do.

How do you make money out of travel blogging: Travel blogging is not my primary source of income.

How do you fit in blogging while on the road: It’s difficult. Sometimes I go for a month without a post, but I go for quality, not quantity.

What’s your most epic travel story: Surfing the two longest waves in the world in Costa Rica and Peru.

What is your favourite destination so far: It depends on what I’m doing there!

What’s been your biggest travel disaster: Having someone steal my Kindle at a hostel in Kuala Lumpur. I read a lot. This was devastating.

What are your top gadgets that you always take travelling: iPhone 5, Kindle, Macbook Air, Bose headphones.

What’s your favourite phrase in a foreign language: terima kasih

Would you ever do any other job: Not if I can help it.

What’s next on your bucket list: Spending the summer in Europe.

Favorite travel blog/website(s) – besides Traveljunkieindonesia.com, of course!: TropicalMBA.com and FourHourWorkWeek.com/Blog

What has travel taught you: What is most important to me.

Best travel tip: “There is no substitute for just going there.” -Yvonn Chouinard

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