October 2025
In 2024, Google made massive changes to search, and then soon after, AI was stealing everyone’s work and churning it back out to users. Searches now take people to AI results and Reddit threads. We weren’t the only site affected; other writers who had spent decades creating content had their work stolen, and their incomes dropped to almost nothing within months. The travel blog industry (and writing in general) has taken a hit that most won’t recover from.
So here we are.
It breaks our hearts a bit to let Journey Here Travel go. The website will remain up for a year, with occasional updates. We’ll no longer operate as a business or as business partners but will remain lifelong friends.
We hope that you have enjoyed this ride with us. We hope that maybe we inspired more than one of you to get out there and see a new corner of the world. We hope you continue to do so; the world is beautiful, and we need human connection more than ever.
We will be shutting down the Journey Here social media, but if you want to see what we’re up to, follow us on our Instagram profiles. You can follow Julianne @juliannemwill, and Heather @heathering_away.
And if there’s something we can provide for you in the travel space, please don’t hesitate to contact us on Instagram and let us know.