One of the most difficult things about traveling, at least for us, is finding restaurants that cater toward our dietary restrictions. For Maddie, both SteemFests in Amsterdam and Lisbon were a serious struggle!
In Amsterdam, she was on what I called a "Monkey diet" eating almost exclusively bananas because, at that time, almost every single food was giving her a reaction.
She was down to about a dozen foods she could eat and by "Foods" I don't mean dishes. I'm talking about 12 individual foods like salmon, cauliflower, red cabbage, and bananas.
Thanks to our 2016 Amsterdam trip, she now hates bananas.
Fast forward to our 2017 SteemFest 2 trip to Lisbon, Portugal and that was perhaps even worse than Amsterdam. That city loves their bread, which makes life difficult for anyone intolerant to gluten. Combine that with all of her other allergies and the result was her going hungry most days, attempting to survive on nothing but wine.
Thankfully, since we started our travels through Mexico, Maddie's body seems to be healing and she has been able to reintroduce most foods. However, there are still some foods that give her major problems. One of the main culprits is gluten.
We're always excited to find restaurants that are totally gluten-free. The restaurant we feature in this video called "Organic Now" was just that. As a bonus, most of their dishes are also vegan. Maddie almost never gets to eat foods like pancakes and pizza, so when she finds tasty gluten-free and vegan food like we did here, she's in heaven!
Watch the full video below.
We don't talk about this subject a whole lot, so we thought it'd be worthwhile to let everyone know what exactly we're doing to benefit Steem. Aside from producing (what are hopefully) entertaining videos, of course. ;)
What we're doing to grow Steem
1. Delegating our Steem Power to grow the Nigerian community
We are delegating almost all of our SP, free of charge, to help grow the Nigerian Steem community. Nigeria is a key to making Steem huge and we're currently delegating almost 30,000 SP. You can read more about that here.
2. Sending 1,000s of unique visitors to Steemit
We send 1,000s of unique visitors from Facebook to Steemit every week. You can read more about that here.
3. Growing our social media presence and YouTube channel
We are still under 500 YouTube subscribers but our channel is growing fast. We're currently adding 20-35 subscribers per day. Once we grow our audience outside of Steem, we'll be able to promote the platform to an even larger audience.
Curious about what goes into producing our videos? You can read about that here.
4. Working on an SMT project
We can't share a lot of details at this point but Steem is a full-time job for both of us. In addition to producing videos, we are spending hours each day contributing to another Steem-related SMT project.
5. Word of mouth
We're a young couple who aren't even close to retirement age. Everyone we talk to is wondering how we're earning money while traveling, which is a perfect segue into telling them about Steem/it. Because of this curiosity factor, we've had the opportunity to tell dozens and dozens of interested people about Steem.
We use this action cam to shoot our videos.
Check out @wadepaterson's 20 Questions with TangerineTravels.
@sharingeverybite (Maddie)
@shenanigator (Jordan)
(and Laska the Siberian Husky)
