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    backpacker who funded his travel with medical research earnings turns decade-long wor

    Backpacker who funded his travel with medical research earnings turns decade-long worldwide trip into €1m business

    Johnny Ward

    As success stories go, they don't come much bigger than this.

    An Irishman has turned a shoestring-budget backpacking trip he started 10 years ago into a €1m enterprise.
    Johnny Ward (32), who now only has eight countries left to visit on his adventure, is the creator of travel blog www.OneStep4Ward.com
    The travel blog has chronicled his adventures across the globe over the past few years to places like Turkmenistan, Senegal and Thailand to name only a few.
    Johnny explained how he grew up with family problems and under severe financial restraints – so much so that he, his sister and his mother “couldn’t go overseas or afford a car.”

    After a trip to the US in his early 20s poor money management saw his dreams cut short and his mother paid for a flight home for him back to Ireland a lot sooner than expected.
    He “signed up for some pretty intense medical research” when he got back and earned over €3,000 from this, he told The Mirror.
    Johnny used the money to pay back his mother for his flight home, as well as paying for an English teaching diploma and a flight to Thailand and that’s where his travel adventures started.
    He spent several years scrounging around on a shoestring budget but eventually he grew tired of the constant financial restraints he was under.
    “In 2009 I realised I was 26, with no career, and it was getting old how broke I was,” he explained.
    After this realisation he decided to dabble in a 9-5 and he moved and began working in Sydney, Australia.
    He stayed there for 10 months saving a whopping €20,000 slogging away at his 9-5 job, but itchy feet caused him to hit the road again.
    The Galway-born globetrotter then booked a one-way flight to Zimbabwe taking his fledgling blog on full-time.
    A few years on from that one-way flight he has some 80,000 monthly subscribers and from sponsorship he is a self made millionaire with properties in both London and Bangkok – he is based in the latter.
    One of the last few countries left on his bucket list is Yemen.
    “Yemen is one of the last I have left and there’s a civil war there so it’s a no-fly zone, the border with Saudi Arabia is closed and the other with Oman is patrolled by ISIS, so I don’t how I’ll do it,” he explained.

    He is currently in the Pacific Islands and has only eight countries left to tick off his travel list.
    With a schedule that boasts only 10-20 hours of work per week from his laptop wherever he is in the world, he has realised his dream and is even in talks with Red Bull for his own TV show.


    Irish backpacker who funded his travel with medical research earnings turns decade-long worldwide trip into ?1m business - Independent.ie
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    Right I'm in a grumpy mood as usual ,what can i find not to like about him? ?
    For a start I don't like the look of him with that big Arab scarf thing round his neck .Whats that about ?

    Professional Irishman is he ?

    ''with properties in both London and Bangkok
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    typical... never a house in Dublin And Cork ....but probably goes round telling anyone who'll listen I'm IRISH all day long .

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    Decent fella.

    He's done it right - living the traveler life, right. And now he has a bit of coin to add to it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by blue
    .Whats that about ?
    keeps all that dust and sand from clogging up your ear-holes and hair.
    Riding a coal train.
    Can keep you cool also when damp.

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    i mean this scarf
    i think its called a kuffiyeh

    hes 'riding' nothing in this photo , unless it's just off camera

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    some kind of psychological research.


    Quote Originally Posted by blue
    'riding' nothing in this photo
    a blo job maybe.

    I've worn a hooded jobbie in Morocco,, a djellaba. many moons ago.

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    Quote Originally Posted by blue
    telling anyone who'll listen I'm IRISH all day long .
    have you ever heard an English man say he's British ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by billy the kid View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by blue
    telling anyone who'll listen I'm IRISH all day long .
    have you ever heard an English man say he's British ?
    yes but after English people or anyone else has stated their nationality they don't look around the room , as if expecting a round of applause and cheering , like Irish and Brazilians do .

    So how did he make this money?

    80,000 monthly subscribers and from sponsorship he is a self made millionaire
    signing up maybe , surely they aint paying to read a blog ?
    sponsorship .....please

    Whats his carbon footprint ?
    How come PC mob never target country tickers with their wrath ?

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    Once met him briefly in Bkk...who cares whether he is Irish, British, Brazilian, whatever...he made a few bob, well done !

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    I hate it when people ask me if i am English - I am Irish and proud of it.

    Good for this young man. Let's hope he doesn't get grumpy too soon!!

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