Easy (even free) Ways to Support the Trans-Americas Journey (updated March 2026)
If you like what we’re doing, there are a few easy ways you can support our Trans-Americas Journey and keep our travel blog ad-free and full of professional, human-produced photography and stories about travel in the Americas. From donating money to liking our socials, it all adds up and helps keep us on the road in a changing travel journalism landscape with shrinking photography and writing fees and increasing AI shenanigans.
Ah, the early days of our Trans-Americas Journey during a visit to Valley of Fire State Park in Nevada.
Since we hit the road in 2006, our little road trip has thoroughly explored 19 countries in North, Central, and South America, including the United States, Canada, Mexico, Belize, Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay. We’ve published more than 1,200 posts on our travel blog. We’ve dished out thousands of travel tips. We’ve published hundreds of travel videos.
And we’ll keep doing it. We could just use a little support.
If we’re your go-to distraction at work, if you’re living vicariously through us, if we’ve inspired your own travels, if you want to be part of every mile of our Journey…please consider supporting our Trans-Americas Journey.
Here’s how.
Support the Trans-Americas Journey: Become a Patreon patron
We’re pretty good at a lot of things. Asking for money isn’t one of them. So far, we’ve managed to stay on the road for nearly 20 years (and counting) by being frugal (that’s a fancy word for cheap) and creative. But as prices rise and our freelance journalism fees and assignments shrink, that’s getting harder and harder.
For a few years now, we’ve been using a service called Patreon, which lets fans of our Trans-Americas Journey pledge a monthly amount in support of our road trip and travel blog. Choose how much you want to give and Patreon automatically bills you each month.
If you like what we’re doing and can give us some Patreon support, we promise to use it to keep saying no to the pop-ups, banners, and links and keep saying yes to digital travel content that doesn’t suck. All amounts are appreciated, and your Patreon support will directly and immediately help us stay on the road and continue to produce professional digital travel content about independent adventures in the Americas without ads or sponsored links. Our Patreon support will also be used to meet specific goals, like increasing our carbon offset program.
Support the Trans-Americas Journey: Use our affiliate links
We are part of a number of select affiliate programs chosen because we like their products or services related to travel. This means that you’ll sometimes see links within our blog posts. Clicking those links and buying an item or service means that your price remains the same, but we get a teeny tiny portion of it as the source of the sale.
Here’s a handy list of our current affiliate partnerships. Use these links to access these websites and start shopping as you normally would. Each purchase will automatically help support us. And tell your friends!
WorldTrips international travel medical insurance – See why we chose an Atlas Nomads plan for international travel medical insurance in our post about travel health insurance and WorldTrips.
Roam luggage – See what we think of the Roam hard-sided luggage we’ve been using since 2021, and get an exclusive $50 discount in our Roam review.
Support the Trans-Americas Journey: Be part of our social media communities
Social interaction all adds up. Here are easy and free ways you can help.
Join 4,600+ others and like our Trans-Americas Journey Facebook page.
Go to the bottom of our homepage and sign up for our Trans-Americas Journey newsletter.
Join 19,000+ subscribers on our Trans-Americas Journey YouTube channel, where you can watch and like our travel videos.
Join 7,500+ others and follow the Trans-Americas Journey Instagram page to catch our reels.
Leave comments on our Trans-Americas Journey travel blog posts when the spirit moves you.
When you do a Google search for something travel-related, add “+ blog” to the end to help ensure that your search includes the human source of the travel info, such as our travel blog, not just AI slop.
And spread the word. Know someone who’s thinking about a trip in Latin America? Send them to our site!
Here’s proof of reader support at work
We asked for help to cover the considerable (and unavoidable) cost of shipping our truck around the roadless Darien Gap jungle between Panama and Colombia, which is a 60-mile (96-km) break in the Pan American Highway.
Our truck loading into a shipping container for the journey around the Darien Gap between Panama and Colombia.
And every time we pull into a gas station, we thank our supporters for their help filling the tank so we can keep exploring the Americas and keep telling you what’s out there.
Thank you.
Spreading Twitter love. I hope you get the necessary funds you need!