Daniel Ahola and Andreas Tolonen, who are familiar with YouTube, decided to try to travel around the world on a zero budget in 60 days. This is how they succeeded in the challenge.
In early 2024 tuber Daniel Ahola28, the idea of adventure around the world.
He had made similar trips with his friend Andreas Tolonen, 23, before. Finland and Europe as a whole had already been passed. But would it be possible to make a trip in sixty days around the world without money?
– I got the idea, a week later I called the mothers and they came to Turku to visit me. They sat down on the couch and went for about two months, so we were leaving, Daniel explains to Iltalehti.
Daniel mean to her friends from Andrea and the project photographer Nikita touvike24.
“Man -written” twists and turns
For the financing of the project, Daniel put his car for sale, among other things. The trip itself was made with a zero budget, but funding was required to cover production costs.
The trip, which started at Helsinki Citizens’ Square last spring, included twists that Daniel even takes a courtesy that they are considered incredible – it is difficult to believe in himself.
In the past, Daniel still could justify the spectators’ twists and turns and believe in some of them how they have not “cheated” with their videos.
– I’ve given up on it. There are people who will never believe because they don’t want to. The gang does not understand that these videos would be harder to fake than to make truly, Daniel says now.
Andreas Tolonen, Daniel Ahola and Nikita Touvike left last spring from Helsinki to the world without money. Now travel videos are revealed. Daniel Ahola’s album
He carefully plans the “rules” of his videos to make dramatic twists and turns possible.
– We have had a discussion together from the beginning to not use a color pen in our videos. I can stand proudly behind everything when I know that everything was done genuinely.
According to Daniel, travel -free travel was also depressed by moral guidelines, such as the fact that money is not collected or used for the benefit of their own nickname. In practice, anyone could do the same.
Foot photos, famous content producers, NHL player …
During the trip, especially in the early stages, the travel budget was collected, for example, by selling foot pictures.
“If you fly to Portugal thanks to these, then I will not regret this,” Andreas says in the video when lucrative shots are recorded in Helsinki.
Selling the foot images dates back to a couple of years now, Molebros channel For a video with the goal of earning as much money as possible in eight hours.
– There, we tried to think about how to make a product that can be made as much as possible. The foot pictures were a meme at that point, and have actually been for some reason.
“I thought all the way, and I didn’t come up with what could really be a better business,” Daniel explains.
After entering the United States, the trio stayed with an unknown nudist, for example. Soon, though, they ended up in the NHL hockey player Kaapo Kako’s apartment over the roofs of New York.
– It was honey. I was wondering that no one will ever believe this, Daniel says.
Coincidence played his own role in the game, as Daniel had met Kako’s partner, actor Julia Korpinen’s work just before she went on a trip. Julia noticed from social media that travelers were in New York and contacted.
– Really came out of the bush. I just knew that his boyfriend’s name was Kaapo. After the video call, the pieces began to fall into place, Daniel laughs.
In New York, the duo also ended up in the videos of a well -watched streaming stream. They were informed that Kaecenat is currently moving in New York and shooting video. Daniel and Andreas decided to try their luck and went to the same direction.
At the 23-year-old US I guess centat There are currently 16.8 million followers on the Streaming service on Twitch. Cenat is the most ordered content producer in the application. Fan In turn, 3 million. Not long after Daniel and Andreas said in their stream that they had already reached New York from Finland without money.
Daniel Ahola never wondered if he should just give up. Daniel Ahola’s album
The streamers released video clips that spent more than millions of impressions on social media. When travelers reached the other side of the mainland, they were already identified in the videos that had spread in the United States.
Through somevideos, travelers were identified in a small shop. The man in the shop wanted to donate a thousand dollars to them, which made it to make the last ocean considerably easier.
– The one moment in Tripla, when one guy bought a foot image from us, echoed until we got around the globe and in that time. It’s crazy.
– Yes, the biggest adventure of my life was, so far, Daniel rushes to add to add.
Helsinki, UK, Portugal, Azorit, New York, Texas, Nevada, California, Japan, Thailand, China, Switzerland, Austria, Estonia. Among other things, these stages were part of the world, and eventually the return to the Helsinki Civic Square took place 44 days after departure.
“Why is there a knife?”
The trio crossed the challenge of the finish line and left their homes in a tear in the eye, changed. Although the positivity is not in the toughest place, the experience was very tough.
– In the videos, you don’t want to, and you can’t emphasize all the time that you wouldn’t eat for 24 hours otherwise and not sleep properly on a soft surface for a week. However, that homesickness starts to accumulate and the uncertainty is bad, Daniel says.
– The coolest thing is that all of us really got something bigger than life on that journey. They learn and appreciate and everything to the little one, Daniel says.
Daniel on trips, life and videos are motivated by, among other things, the desire to experience as much as possible and adventure. Daniel Ahola
Perhaps forever remembered a car ride that offered cold moments. Passengers had to get from Texas on the west coast of the United States and they got the ride to be hung. However, the driver behaved confused and the doubts began to wake up.
– It had already gone a little strange. Then I went to a gas station and come back into the car, then I see that there has been a knife on the car’s dashboard, Daniel times.
– I’m trying to think hard for the hell, why there is a knife, for which, for that, a goddess has suddenly become a knife. I tried to think about all the options, but I only came to my mind for us, he continues.
The journey continued and there was no escape from the car. Daniel was ready to grab the man at any moment and grab the knife out of his hand.
– Fortunately, the situation was erupted by the fact that it was for those drugs, in a way depressing.
The travelers eventually survived the car using the drug using the car for about an hour from Las Vegas.
Forced to succeed
Travel videos do not show what kind of concerns also furnished at home. The trip was made on a zero budget, but as said, the production of the videos had to be paid.
– No one really knows that when I was in New York, I really had the money, that is, my own money.
– I had to borrow quite a lot of money to continue production. It is ironic in itself that a zero budget trip runs out of money.
When Daniel and others finally got home from the world, the worries did not stop there. There was a huge amount of material described, but I couldn’t afford to make additional forces to make the videos.
Daniel Ahola is also adventuring in the Special Forces program. He says that the special forces were “mentally anything compared to the world around the world. The physically special forces were heavier. Maarit Pohjanpalo
– In practice, I had to handle the whole production myself. Sure, those who have been on the trip and my girlfriend were helping it Lotta Toivonenbut mainly the entire burden crashed on their own shoulders. For more than half a year, I went more and more to the minus.
Working hours took about a hundred a week, alone for this project.
“There was really a moment when the old Christmas gingerbread was starved and the worst was 15 tons of minus,” Daniel admits.
– At that point, I was thinking that goddamn, if this project, will not succeed and if this series flop, then it is going. There was real pressure, he says.
Financial difficulties also brought with it sleep problems. Daniel says that life is now smiling and the economy is already back on the plus side.
– It is a long time to leave when the project is finally out.