Yes, Do Youtube vlogs if u can, and blogs too, this will help to gain good traffic and create a good no of backlinks too..I recommend you get a domain/hosting.
Then you add 50-100 articles, over the course of ..say 3 months time.
By that time, you should slowly begin to see some traffic to your site, and you can now sign up for Amazon and Adsense.
Add your links, and keep writing articles.
I will say, honestly its a very hard niche you selected.
Better to do travel on Youtube, than as a blogger.
If you could do both it would be great.
Who can help me out?
I am looking to start a travel/nomad blog with affiliate links and promos for my Instagram.
But how to start a blog properly and monetize.
Never done this before. Who can help me out?