Media & Press
Travel stories hit differently when they come from someone who actually walked the road, missed the bus, climbed the hill, questioned every life decision, and still showed up with a camera.
I’m Carter, the travel blogger and creator behind Atypical Vagabond. I create stories about slow travel, expat life, Portugal, the Camino de Santiago, digital nomad life, and the messy, beautiful process of building a life abroad.
This page is where you will find interviews, media features, creator collaborations, and opportunities to work together.
Media Requests, Interviews, and Collaborations
Looking for a Portugal-based travel creator, podcast guest, video collaborator, or slow travel storyteller with a few miles on his boots?
I’m open to interviews, YouTube collaborations, destination features, podcast conversations, and creative projects that help travelers explore deeper, live braver, and avoid the generic travel fluff machine.
Featured Interview: Expats Everywhere
I had the chance to sit down with Kalie from Expats Everywhere for a conversation about life abroad, Portugal, travel, and what happens when you stop treating “someday” like a real plan.
We talked about the realities of moving overseas, finding your footing in a new country, building a travel-focused life, and what it means to keep exploring when the road starts feeling less like an escape and more like home.
This interview is a great starting point for anyone who wants to understand my story, the work behind this travel project, and the bigger mission: helping adventurers and travelers think differently about where they go, how they move through the world, and what kind of life they want to build.
It is not just a “look at me living abroad” conversation. It is more about the messy, practical, beautiful middle ground between travel, reinvention, and building a life that does not fit inside the usual box.
Let’s help each other grow.
Want to Collaborate?
If you are a creator, podcast host, tourism professional, local business, or storyteller working on something interesting, I am open to collaboration.
That could mean a video feature, interview, podcast appearance, destination story, local experience, YouTube crossover, or a good old-fashioned creative brainstorm where nobody wears a suit unless absolutely necessary.
If your work helps people travel deeper, live braver, or see a place with more curiosity, reach out.
Collaborations and Media Opportunities
I am open to collaborations with creators, tourism boards, travel brands, podcasts, YouTube channels, publications, local businesses, and people doing interesting work in the travel space.
If you are building something meaningful, let’s talk.
I am especially interested in collaborations around:
- Portugal travel
- Camino de Santiago content
- Expat life and moving abroad
- Digital nomad life
- Slow travel
- Travel storytelling
- YouTube collaborations
- Podcast interviews
- Destination features
- Local tours, experiences, and cultural projects
- Creator cross-promotion
The goal is simple: help each other grow while creating useful, honest, entertaining content for travelers who want more than generic travel fluff.
Video Collaborations
I am happy to collaborate on video projects when there is a good fit.
That could mean:
- Appearing in a travel video
- Interviewing each other
- Featuring your business, tour, project, or destination
- Creating a joint YouTube episode
- Sharing local expertise
- Building a story around a place, route, or experience
- Cross-promoting content to reach new audiences
My audience includes travelers, future expats, digital nomads, Camino pilgrims, Portugal explorers, and people who are trying to build a more adventurous life.
They are curious. They are practical. They like honest stories. And they can smell fake travel hype from three train stations away.
Media Kit
Here’s the quick version for interviews, collaborations, guest features, and media requests.
Name
Carter — Portugal-based travel creator, writer, YouTuber, and slow travel storyteller.
Based In
Coimbra, Portugal — creating from Central Portugal while exploring the country, the Camino, and life abroad.
Primary Topics
Portugal travel, Camino de Santiago, slow travel, expat life, and digital nomad life
Platforms
Blog, YouTube, newsletter, and social media storytelling built around honest travel perspective.
Best Fit
Interviews, creator collaborations, tourism projects, local experiences, and destination storytelling
Audience
Travelers, future expats, digital nomads, Camino pilgrims, Portugal explorers, and curious adventurers.
Work With Carter
For media requests, interviews, collaborations, destination features, or video projects, feel free to reach out.
Whether you are a creator, tourism professional, podcast host, writer, local business, or fellow traveler with a story worth sharing, I would love to hear what you are building.
Let’s make something useful.
Let’s make something honest.
And if we can make it a little weird in the best possible way, even better.
Contact: atypicalvagabond@gmail.com
Lets Work Together
Have a media request, interview idea, video collaboration, podcast invite, or destination project?
Let’s make something useful, honest, and a little weird in the best possible way.
Atypical Last Thoughts
Travel media does not need to be polished until it loses its soul.
The best stories come from real places, real people, and real conversations. That is what I try to create through the blog, YouTube channel, interviews, and collaborations.
So, if your project helps people travel deeper, live braver, or see the world with a little more curiosity, reach out.
The road is better when good people cross paths.