Full Time Travel Budget | June 2023

Buenas días from Quito, Ecuador!

Las Lajas Sanctuary (Ipiales)

We arrived in Ecuador yesterday after a quick stop in the Colombian border town of Ipiales to see the STUNNING Las Lajas Sanctuary. Definitely worth the stop over if you're doing an overland border crossing.

We've just arrived at our Air BnB where we'll be spending the next 5 nights Working, Celebrating my 30th and exploring the capital of Ecuador! Small note, if you've come here for Analytics - I've decided to go even deeper into it and include more social media platforms like Instagram and TikTok so it's become too big to fit here. It now lives on it's own page Social Media and Youtube Analytics June 2023 page.

Expense Report

Accommodations Expenses

Boato Hotel (Guatape)

Location	Accomodation	Notes	Nights	Cost
​Palomino	Hotel Casa Colibri	Private room w bathroom. No air conditioning!	1	$33
Santa Marta	Hotel La Communidad	Modern Private room w bathroom. Good air conditioning!	3	$108
Cartagena	Hotel/Hostel Hostal Badilla SV	Private room w Bathroom. Super central but a bit old/run-down.	4	$144
Medellin	Air BnB	Full Apartment	3	$123
Guatape	Hotel Boato hotel	2 nights free for a unique accommodation video!	2	$0 *
Guatape	Hotel/Hostel Hotel Villa Guatape	Private room w bathroom (Moved into town to explore Guatape rock)	1	$17
Medellin	Air BnB	Fancy loft apartment. Had holes in the walls and no aircon though.. bad choice here.	2	$120
Medellin	Air BnB	Full apartment (Moved somewhere cheaper to do work)	3	$99
Salento	Hostel Combi	Private room w Bathroom. Affordable and close to centre	2	50
Cali	Apartment 554 Apartments	Full big apartment located in the dodgy area of town. We just stayed in and worked most of the time!	6	$150
Ipiales	Hotel Hotel San Jose	Private room w bathroom. Located RIGHT next to bus terminal. Very small room but affordable.	2	$46
TOTAL				$889

Accommodation can fluctuate madly in Colombia and we learnt some lessons this month. Some of the best places we stayed were $25 a night, while some of the worst nights sleep we had were the most expensive! our long stretch in the nice apartment in Cali for $25 per night really helped us get our average down and we really regret forking out $60 a night for a place that literally had holes in the wall haha we could hear all the street noise! * You'll notice some complimentary nights stay in June, rest-assured we only accept the conditions of the nights stay if we are allowed to create our own videos from our own experience. We will never accept anything complimentary if we have to give a favourable review over an honest one.

We try to use Trusted house sitters as much as possible because its amazing and you can get a 20% discount through this link: trustedhousesitters.pxf.io/jordanemily20 Use code: JORDANEMILY20 at checkout!

Transport Expenses

Medellin - Salento bus

Route	Mode	Notes	Cost
Palomino - Santa Marta	Local Bus	Expected Time: 2 hrs Actual Time: 3.5 hrs Hop on from the main road! Some buses had air con and some didn't	$9
Santa marta - Cartagena	Big Bus Expreso Brasilia	Expected Time: 4 hrs Actual Time: 7 hrs You will also need an Uber into town which costs another $15 or so	$28
Cartagena - Medellin	Big Bus Expreso Brasilia	Expected Time: 13.5 hrs Actual Time: 16.5 hrs Overnight bus was pretty comfortable and we made a full video about it!	$142
Medellin - Guatape	Local Bus	​Expected Time: 2 hrs Actual Time: 2 hrs	$26 (return)
Medellin - Salento	Medium bus Flota Occidental	​Expected Time: 6 hrs Actual Time: 8 hrs Wrote a blog post about this entire journey!	$59
Salento - Peirera -Cali	Medium bus(es)	​​Expected Time: ? Actual Time: 5hrs	$35
Cali - Ipiales	Big Bus Bolivariano	​​Expected Time: 10 Hrs Actual Time: 10hrs The most time efficient overnight bus but also the busiest and most uncomfrtoable	$42
TOTAL			$422

Things to note: The numbers are different to the 'Expenses by Category' Section. that's because in that section I use the Master sheet which includes small transports like Ubers, Grabs, Taxis and short cheap trains which I thought wouldn't add any value in this section! (I kept the total the same)

June included another 2 overnight buses. One was great and we made a full video about getting from Cartagena to Medellin with expreso brasilia. The second one was from Cali to Ipiales with Bolivariano and we are still sore from that. My (almost) 30 year old back did not hold up well and Emily's neck is still sore enough to be causing headaches! I thought I would include expected time vs actual time and i'm excited to see how these change as we move into new South American countries.

Fixed Costs

Details	Notes	Cost
Insurance	SafetyWing	$138
Adobe Premier Pro		$29.00
Epidemic Sound	All our music!	​$22
TOTAL		$189

Insurance is expensive but worth it. Safety wing is our insurer of choice, they seemed to offer the most comprehensive cover especially when lots of countries needed specific types of insurance during the pandemic, they were great! - Unforauntely coming to America meant we had to increase our coverage which immediately doubled the price. But it's just something you Need to have. Adobe is the software we used to edit our YouTube videos. Epidemic sound is where we get all our music from, you can get a free trial with this link*: https://share.epidemicsound.com/i1nhpc

Income Report

Source	Notes	Amount
Affiliate	Nil	$0
Licensing	Nil	$0
Brand Deal	Nil	$0
Youtube	Ad revenue	​$1059.49
Website	Ad Revenue	​$6.31
TOTAL		​$1065.80

Affiliate Income

Affiliate	Clicks	Conversions	Notes	Income
Amazon	61	0	Nil	$0
Get your guide	25	2 (8%)	7 people booked on the Amsterdam wine and cheese tour!	$0 (Need to reach 50USD before withdrawal)
Viator	​26	0	Generated by Ha Long Bay Video	$0
House sitters	41	0	Not sure if accurate because one day was responsible for 37 clicks!	$0
Totals	153	2		$0

Licensing Agreements No licensing this month, It's getting more likely that what we got in Vietnam was a one time thing!

Brand Deals/Savings

Complimentary stays: Boato Hotel in Guatape | 2 nights Complimentary trips: 5 Islands tour of Rosario Islands with Cartagena Adventures

Youtube This entire breakdown of Youtube analytics and income section has been moved into it's own more detailed social media page! Check it out here.

Website

Website income

This is a new one for us! we finally put some ads on our website and started to post useful and interesting content, hopefully we can see this as a steady income from here on out!

Summary

Even though we had a little bit of a disappointing month for our affiliate conversions it's a great sign that the clicks are still increasing month to month! We are ecstatic to say we reached a milestone of over $1000 income from Youtube for the month! Hopefully this is sign of things to come as we continue to move around South America until November!

Expenses (total)	​$2,392
Income (total)	$1,061.80
Budget impact	($1,326.20)

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