Uploaded March 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
The facts: The Dallas Cowboys are the greatest sports business in the world.
The dream: Convince my wife to come along as I drive our bus-conversion-to-RV to every game for the 2025-2026 season.
The process: Take the AT&T Stadium tour and get her excited for the spectacle that is my favorite football team.
Dreams are a funny thing. People say, 'dream big'. I guess I get what they mean, but my advice would be: 'dream incrementally, and never stop dreaming.' Doesn't have as much of a ring to it, but it's what I've learned over the past 8 years of chasing many dreams, as my wife and I built our YouTube business with 0 experience, 0 skill and for a large portion of it, 0 idea what we were really doing.
On January 1st, 2018, my wife and I officially started traveling. We sold most of what we owned, and put a tiny bit of stuff in storage. Our trip was scheduled for 1 year.
Our dream: travel the world for 1 year. Our YouTube stuff was sort of an afterthought. It was something we could put our effort into if we needed to kill time, or if we happened to stumble into something very interesting. I thought, sort of naively, that we might make some extra cash with relatively low effort. I was pretty wrong about that.
Our first videos earned exactly 0 dollars and took a long time to make. What stood out most was: I could see myself being nervous and awkward, right through the screen, as I was editing my own footage. I knew this was the most important thing to tackle. I had to get more comfortable on camera. I've always felt sort of uncomfortable in social situations, and was a really really shy kid. My new dream was to: get comfortable on camera, being able to speak about a wider range of topics clearly-- figuring that would be a pretty good life skill, when our 1 year trip was over.
And so, I figured practice makes perfect. The only way to get more comfortable on camera was to spend more time on camera. For awhile there, we were uploading daily (this proved to be too much, and was unmanageable), and we were doing 4 or 5 hour livestreams on Sunday. Sometimes we only had 10 or 20 people watching our livestreams. But, I was practicing, and slowly improving.
Suddenly: we started making money on YouTube! Not a lot, but enough to see that there might be a path forward with this. We might earn $500 a month. Still spending more than we were making but it gave us a new dream: Try to break even. We'd now decided to extend our 1 year trip into maybe 2, and we thought if we could travel for 2 full years, 24 months, and now lose any money from our savings, that would be pretty great.
And so: we kept working. Kept traveling. Kept trying to find interesting places to go, stories to cover, and ways to share them. And, we kept dreaming.
Our 2 year trip slowly morphed into an indefinite trip. Not only were we breaking even; we were saving money! Our biggest dream yet came to us: Have a child, and raise them on the road.
Which brings us to today: We have a daughter, and a bus-to-RV-conversion. We have a decent size YouTube channel that is our sole income. We have 5 lifetimes worth of unique experiences and memories. And we have a new dream: DRIVE OVERLAND TO EVERY DALLAS COWBOYS GAME FOR A FULL SEASON!
(To be clear: this is more my dream than Ivana's. But, I am working on her ;))
My overall point is: On January 1st, 2018, I would have no way of knowing where this path would take me. It would be impossible to 'dream big' and see my future: raising children in the back of a bus, zig zagging across the U.S, following the Cowboys to every game. My guess is, if I had've dreamed up that, I would've reckoned it was impossible. How the heck could I ever pull off something like that?
And yet here I am, feeling more and more confident Ivana and I can make it work. We're gonna have to dial the bus in: no room for any breakdowns or issues. We've gotta be comfortable and organized, because there is gonna be a lot of driving. But, because we dream incrementally, and never stopped dreaming, I sincerely think we can pull it of.
Seey'all in Spetember!
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 - Our dream to drive to every Cowboys game this year
1:53 - Tour start: Private clubs for season ticket holders
3:55 - Where Jerry watches the game
4:49 - Inside a private box
6:14 - Construction facts & features
7:37 - ON THE FIELD!
9:36 - Pro shop tour
11:01 - One step closer to our dream :)
▶︎ BEST eSIM we use for our travels: holafly.sjv.io/o4v9gb, and use code JETLAGHOLA5 for 5% OFF
Music in the video:
Track: Enjoy It — Land of Fire [Audio Library Release]
Music provided by Audio Library Plus
Watch: youtu.be/Isn0Cw6lSAY
Free Download / Stream: alplus.io/enjoy-it
The facts: The Dallas Cowboys are the greatest sports business in the world.
The dream: Convince my wife to come along as I drive our bus-conversion-to-RV to every game for the 2025-2026 season.
The process: Take the AT&T Stadium tour and get her excited for the spectacle that is my favorite football team.
Dreams are a funny thing. People say, 'dream big'. I guess I get what they mean, but my advice would be: 'dream incrementally, and never stop dreaming.' Doesn't have as much of a ring to it, but it's what I've learned over the past 8 years of chasing many dreams, as my wife and I built our YouTube business with 0 experience, 0 skill and for a large portion of it, 0 idea what we were really doing.
On January 1st, 2018, my wife and I officially started traveling. We sold most of what we owned, and put a tiny bit of stuff in storage. Our trip was scheduled for 1 year.
Our dream: travel the world for 1 year. Our YouTube stuff was sort of an afterthought. It was something we could put our effort into if we needed to kill time, or if we happened to stumble into something very interesting. I thought, sort of naively, that we might make some extra cash with relatively low effort. I was pretty wrong about that.
Our first videos earned exactly 0 dollars and took a long time to make. What stood out most was: I could see myself being nervous and awkward, right through the screen, as I was editing my own footage. I knew this was the most important thing to tackle. I had to get more comfortable on camera. I've always felt sort of uncomfortable in social situations, and was a really really shy kid. My new dream was to: get comfortable on camera, being able to speak about a wider range of topics clearly-- figuring that would be a pretty good life skill, when our 1 year trip was over.
And so, I figured practice makes perfect. The only way to get more comfortable on camera was to spend more time on camera. For awhile there, we were uploading daily (this proved to be too much, and was unmanageable), and we were doing 4 or 5 hour livestreams on Sunday. Sometimes we only had 10 or 20 people watching our livestreams. But, I was practicing, and slowly improving.
Suddenly: we started making money on YouTube! Not a lot, but enough to see that there might be a path forward with this. We might earn $500 a month. Still spending more than we were making but it gave us a new dream: Try to break even. We'd now decided to extend our 1 year trip into maybe 2, and we thought if we could travel for 2 full years, 24 months, and now lose any money from our savings, that would be pretty great.
And so: we kept working. Kept traveling. Kept trying to find interesting places to go, stories to cover, and ways to share them. And, we kept dreaming.
Our 2 year trip slowly morphed into an indefinite trip. Not only were we breaking even; we were saving money! Our biggest dream yet came to us: Have a child, and raise them on the road.
Which brings us to today: We have a daughter, and a bus-to-RV-conversion. We have a decent size YouTube channel that is our sole income. We have 5 lifetimes worth of unique experiences and memories. And we have a new dream: DRIVE OVERLAND TO EVERY DALLAS COWBOYS GAME FOR A FULL SEASON!
(To be clear: this is more my dream than Ivana's. But, I am working on her ;))
My overall point is: On January 1st, 2018, I would have no way of knowing where this path would take me. It would be impossible to 'dream big' and see my future: raising children in the back of a bus, zig zagging across the U.S, following the Cowboys to every game. My guess is, if I had've dreamed up that, I would've reckoned it was impossible. How the heck could I ever pull off something like that?
And yet here I am, feeling more and more confident Ivana and I can make it work. We're gonna have to dial the bus in: no room for any breakdowns or issues. We've gotta be comfortable and organized, because there is gonna be a lot of driving. But, because we dream incrementally, and never stopped dreaming, I sincerely think we can pull it of.
Seey'all in Spetember!
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 - Our dream to drive to every Cowboys game this year
1:53 - Tour start: Private clubs for season ticket holders
3:55 - Where Jerry watches the game
4:49 - Inside a private box
6:14 - Construction facts & features
7:37 - ON THE FIELD!
9:36 - Pro shop tour
11:01 - One step closer to our dream :)
▶︎ BEST eSIM we use for our travels: holafly.sjv.io/o4v9gb, and use code JETLAGHOLA5 for 5% OFF
Music in the video:
Track: Enjoy It — Land of Fire [Audio Library Release]
Music provided by Audio Library Plus
Watch: youtu.be/Isn0Cw6lSAY
Free Download / Stream: alplus.io/enjoy-it
