We purchased the domain name www.travelfad.com in October of 2010. We thought we would have our website up and running by the start of 2011. It’s almost the end of July 2011 and we haven’t gotten anywhere. Since we are both perfectionists, it’s been difficult to find a web layout and logo design that we love. Since we haven’t made much progress in that department, we are switching our plan of attack. Maybe writing first and then worrying about our website will actually get us somewhere.

It’s a little hard writing the very first post of a new blog. You feel pressured to find your voice, your unique way of looking at the topic your blog is about. We have to give that up. I am starting to realize it’s something that evolves so if you are one of our very first readers, please bare with us. I can only promise you it will get better!

Why did we start Travel Fad?

We are a twenties-something, double-income couple with no kids and are addicted to traveling. Since we aren’t millionaires, we still have to work hard to save money for trips and we are restricted by the amount of paid-time-off we get. This is the case for most people. We are all in the same boat. Through this blog, we want to share with other people our traveling adventures and write about interesting places, delicious food, and amazing people from all around the world. For those of you who love the idea of traveling, but can’t travel for whatever reason, we hope you can live vicariously through our blog.

Where would we like to see Travel Fad in 5 years?
Dreaming big, we would like to have enough readers and sponsors to be able to quit our full-time jobs in order to be full-time travel bloggers. (Oh, and we wouldn’t mind having our own show on the Discovery or Travel Channel!) Even if this doesn’t happen, and even if no one other than us read our posts, we know we are accomplishing our goal of finding out more about the beautiful, breath-taking, adventurous, exhilarating world that we live in. There’s so much to be conquered.

This is a beginning of a beautiful adventure. We hope you come along.

Tyler & Lauren