So you want to be a travel writer?

Nicole Elizabeth
4 min readMar 26, 2022
Me. In Rome. 2019

About 5 years ago when I originally decided that I wanted to be a travel writer I had that romantic notion of getting paid to travel the world and write about it. I’d fly first class, stay in 5-star hotels and write about my explorations from luxurious balconies overlooking crystal blue waters while making my readers green with envy.

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Nicole Elizabeth

“disaffected and directionless” — that is the Oxford dictionary definition of Generation X. Accurate or misunderstood?