Corbin Steel

Youth

Corbin stood out from his peers because he wasn't interested in basketball or football like most of his friends. Corbin enjoyed exploring nature and taking pictures of the places that he went to. When he was in middle school, he started to place them all over his walls to decorate his space. It didn't take long before the walls were covered with gorgeous sunsets, trees shorded in the early morning mist, and the occasional wild animal.

This lasted until he got into high school. Eventually, he got into a huge fight with his father about his future and stormed out of the house for the night. The next day, every picture was stripped off the walls and thrown into the garbage. Corbin almost disappeared that very night, but his mother begged him to wait out the rest of the year and graduate with his class. Begruding, he agreed for the sole sake of his mother. Still, those were the longest four months of his life.

After Hight School
A week after graduation, he packed up and left home for good. At first, he thought he would be living a fantastic life on the road, but he it quickly turned into a nightmare. After two months, he was robbed by an experience con at one of the hotels that he stopped at. Then a year and a half later into his adventure, his car broke down in Alabama. This was his rock bottom as some nights, he didn't have a roof over his head. But, he managed to find enough work to get his car fixed over the next several months. The work was often long, tedious, and underneath the hote summer sun.

After his southern small town troubles, he made his way to New York for a change of pace. New York was okay, but it was loud and dangerous. The amount of people was crazy to all the places that he had lived up to this point. The only place that was comparable was when he drove out to New Orleans for a weekend. He spent a few years here in New York and even had a steady girlfriend. Around this time, he started wriiting to his mom and she loved hearing his stories. Life was nice for a little while until the breakup. After that, New York felt different. His ex pulled most of the friend group away and he Corbin went into a depression. Evnetually, he decided it was time for a change so he decided to take a long shot on starting a travel youtube channel as his 24th birthday rolled around.

Travel Blog Era
It was slow but steady progress as Corbin went to all kinds of historical sites, national parks, and haunted or abandoned structures. His community slowly but surely built up. He gained followers and people started to share a lot of his content. It turned out that they loved the pictures that he took on his travles. He was no where near famous, but he was making enough to pay for his travel expenses without working any odd jobs.