Welcome back to Breakfast with Lisa & Josh!

Hello from rainy Koh Phi Phi Thailand!!

It’s been a whirlwind of a few weeks, with announcing our 5,000 subscriber giveaway (WINNERS ANNOUNCED SOON!!), announcing that we’re giving away a FREE trip around the world to someone out there when we hit 100k subscribers, and navigating the hilariously complex series of travel requirements for both Singapore and Thailand.

We basically moved into, and definitely should have started paying some rent, these airplane seats on the way to Singapore. We flew the literal current longest commercial flight - LAX to Singapore. It was ~19.5 hours, which was about 17 hours too long. Singapore Air made it very comfortable for us, but man, that was a LONG flight.

After that we spent the next day waiting out our jet lag and our COVID tests so that we could go out into Singapore. The waiting period was very tense - if we did end up testing positive, we honestly didn’t know what would happen to us. It probably would have been trip-endingly expensive. Flying to SEA right now is a bit of a risk, but one that we knew was right for us.

I mean, just look at it.

After Singapore we went through the whole process again - submit 50 documents, get approval from Thailand, take 2 COVID tests, navigate a paper-based incredibly complex travel system (you can see all of it in action in the video below), just to get into a new country. Travel these days, especially in Asia, is quite a process. There’s so many hoops to jump through, it wouldn’t surprise me if most people won’t bother.

Arriving in Thailand, however, was entirely worth the effort. We had a wonderful and overwhelming time in Phuket, and just yesterday made our trip via ferry with the One Pack Wanderers to Koh Phi Phi. It’s been raining non-stop, so not much to report from here yet other than it’s very, very quiet.

THE BIG ANNOUNCEMENT (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)

When we hit 100,000 subscribers, we're going to give away a trip around the world to one of you. Yep. We're literally going to send one of you on a trip around the world once we hit 100,000 subscribers here on YouTube.

One of the biggest reasons we started this channel was to inspire and show others that they CAN travel. On top of that, we wanted to help people actually do it and show people it is possible. Because before we did it, we didn’t think it was either. We decided the ultimate way to make this happen is to also just give people the means to actually travel.

While it still seems so far away, we have never felt more excited about a goal. As we get closer to our goal, we will smooth out the details aaaand we'll definitely need to work with an accountant to figure out how to do this - anyone know a good one? 🙂

We know, more than most, that the biggest hurdle to taking a trip is the finance part of it. Sometimes it is hard to know where to even start. We know that we're incredibly lucky to be able to do this, and we think that this experience, and all that travel we've done, has been life changing for us in the best possible way, and we want to make it our purpose to give away the gift of travel as often as we can, as our channel grows.

So, all of the money that we make from this channel above how much it costs for us to keep eating (all those kebabs), traveling, and making these videos, will go towards sending one of you on this trip around the world.

So, stick around. More info to come as we get closer to this goal - we can’t wait :)

Videos this week

Time to show you Singapore as it is right now - we think you’ll love it :)

So, that’s it for this week. More great videos coming soon!

See you next Sunday…ish :)

- josh (and lisa)

Oh, and if you want to learn how we afford to take all these trips after quitting our jobs last year, you’ll likely be interested in our Skillshare course on Travel Hacking and Frequent Flier Miles. It’s been really taking off lately, but we still have a few uses of this link left for those of you who want to see the class for free. It comes with a free month of Skillshare, which is more than enough to watch our class and any of the other great courses on there!

Check it out here: https://skl.sh/3wstHhf

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