Welcome To Johnny Africa!

I’m Johnny,

An award winning blogger creating travel content, pursuing financial independence, and living the digital nomad life.

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About Me

I’m a dual Canadian-American who moved out of my comfortable life in Manhattan to move abroad and travel the world.  I’m a bit obsessed with scuba diving,  churning credit cards so I never pay to fly, and eating the most questionable of foods in the most peculiar of places. My bucket list is the world, and some day I might make it there.

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Visiting AlUla: Saudi’s Desert Jewel

AlUla was a place I had been curious about for a while, but I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect before visiting. It’s often described as Saudi Arabia’s most impressive historical destination, and while that’s true, it also…

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The Perfect Saudi Arabia Travel Itinerary

Saudi Arabia had been on my mental travel map for years, but always as a place I assumed I would never actually visit. For most of my life, the Kingdom felt closed, inaccessible, and deliberately off-limits to tourists.…

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How Much Money Did I Make Blogging In 2025?

Another year has come and passed and what a year it was! It’s time to recount how much I made this year from blogging in 2025. In early 2020, I wrote a post about how much money I…

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