Time for a new adventure!

I'm setting off on a new trip tomorrow that I'm absolutely buzzing for! This video sets out my 2024 travel plans, release dates for documentaries, and also details my big plans going forward for the channel.
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My name’s Karl, welcome to my channel that’s all about sharing my backpacking adventures from around the world, through fun, entertaining and honest travel documentaries.
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[@karlwatsondocs]

Hope you're all exciting for what's in store for this year!! Let me know what shorter videos you'd like to see later on in the year when I start expanding the video - any documentary ideas welcome as well, cos why not :) Right I've gotta finish packing for tomorrow...

[@Zeuken]

Hi, Karl Watson. Big fan of your channel. Quick question, on my favorite video, The Quest for Everest: Ep 1 - China: Beijing & Tibet, what is the name of the singing bell background music? Here's the timestamp (27:29) Please I must know it is my favorite songs I ever here. Hope for the best of your vids. :)

[@OlliePotts]

Love how you prioritise the quality of your docs over anything, very refreshing for KZbin. I've taken a massive amount of inspiration from you for my own youtube travel documentaries, you're an unreal role model for travel content!

[@karlwatsondocs]

Thanks very much :)

[@migratingminds]

I think it’s amazing how protective you are with your work in terms of not adding ads in the middle of the documentaries…. Honestly I’d love to see more budget/itinerary videos. I frequent your website and have used your budget breakdowns multiple times throughout the years. Please keep documenting these things.

[@karlwatsondocs]

Will do! :)

[@migratingminds]

@@karlwatsondocs Speaking of...tell James we need a budget breakdown for his 20 month Central/South America trip!

[@karlwatsondocs]

@@migratingmindsit would be a very simple video of him saying “fuck knows” 🤷‍♂️😂

[@ProblematicPoetry]

Got to admire the commitment to the integrity of the art, respect to you Karl 👏👏👏

[@karlwatsondocs]

Thanks :)

[@Kanziszw]

Karl my partner and I have been watching your videos from way back and I just want to say how stoked we are for you and how this channel has grown. Your videos have grown with you and your quality just keeps hitting higher and higher levels, good on you bro its awesome! looking forward to seeing where you go next. Chur form NZ!

[@karlwatsondocs]

Cheers bro thanks for watching all this time 👍

[@allstat7117]

As people say on the streets "he's a real one". You got the right mindset. All them ads and sales pitches absolutely ruin any content you see on here so keep it pure and stick to the same method. You have the best travel show by a clear mile. Keeping it honest and realistic is what makes it unique.

[@calvin5871]

Canadian viewer here. Can’t wait for the Canada tour

[@gregsnell]

Dude what a life!! Amazing. Pinch yourself brother and celebrate the wins! Also Midnight Train to Georgia baby!! Let's go. That's going to be sick. Say hola to Kev and Simon!!

[@karlwatsondocs]

Cheers buddy! Hope you're doing well :)

[@adamhaus]

fair play to you not turning the ads on, good luck with your next trip!

[@jesusbalderrama9794]

Props to you for not wanting to have ads on your videos It makes your videos that much more special

[@sagartomar3461]

Super excited 😊

[@drkimble7315]

how do u not have 70million subs yet after HK2NY. i did it karl, thanks to your inspiration i took my kids to europe from nz. going back in 2025. what a rush travelling is.

[@karlwatsondocs]

Congrats! Hope you had an amazing trip

[@drkimble7315]

@@karlwatsondocs best one yet. next trip ill be single after 19years so should be even better! :)

[@christinab2703]

The fact that you refuse to be a sell out and put ads in every 4 minutes is greatly appreciated 😂 Good luck with your move to Winterpeg!

[@karlwatsondocs]

Cheers 👍

[@joelwale]

Karl! You're a bloody ripper of a legend mate. Thanks for the videos and also for not being a sell out 🎉

[@karlwatsondocs]

Cheers 😊👍

[@ter1413]

KW doing what he does best....being one of the tip top travel Vloggers on KZbin! Who is your best man? Brother or James?

[@karlwatsondocs]

Both! All deserve to be best men, so why chose :)

[@RemyArbec]

Imagine crashing Karl's wedding wearing a "Where's James?" tshirt 😅

[@ter1413]

@@karlwatsondocs Agree 1000%! Pls do a vid on the wedding buildup...travel to Canada(if that is where the wedding will be), etc. I know it will be difficult to do that when focused, but it would be great to see the footage!

[@karlwatsondocs]

the wedding will be filmed, how much I'll show on the channel I don't know, nice to keep some things private :)@@ter1413

[@RemyArbec]

Really hope you will love your life here in Canada! I'm glad you found your soul mate and hope you both live happily ever after :)

[@karlwatsondocs]

Thank you so much!!

[@karimal.9660]

Exciting year you’ve got ahead of you! My husband and I have been following your journey for a couple years now, and we really appreciate the quality you put into your documentaries. It made us want to travel to places we never really thought about before. I think it’s a great idea about the shorter informative videos with ads/sponsorships. In terms of topics ideas, can I suggest you talk about practical ways to film/edit travel videos? Eg. best gear, choosing a shot, etc. TBH if you put an online class about that, I’d totally subscribe!

[@KD__.]

It's so refreshing to hear of someone who won't sell out and ruin their videos with adverts. I hope it goes well you deserve 1m followers by now👍🏻

[@karlwatsondocs]

Thanks very much :)

[@kcsnew]

Great strategy, kudos to you for keeping your documentaries free from any ads. As far as the short videos are concerned would prefer travel tips, budget and luxury stays, best time when to visit different destinations and when the weather is going to be pleasant, not so hot etc. thanks again for giving us an overall picture and plans for 2024 from you, so sweet. Cheers 👍

[@Husapalooza]

Right on. Safe travels.

[@marlyfreely74]

I agree about the adverts. Quality over quantity. Thank you - love your channel. PS: Congrats on your wedding!

[@litratistangadventurista308]

Love that you care about us; not seeing adverts while enjoying your amazing videos. Looking forward to your incoming videos.

[@loganmanderle8572]

Love your plan for the channel. You’re documentaries are unique relative to a lot of the KZbin content so appreciate your desire to keep them the way are. At the same time I love your work, so excited that this will let you put out content more frequently!

[@mistermerita341]

Happy New Year!!! Can’t wait to see your 2024 adventures..

[@timandfin]

Living for the Back to the Future Midnight Train to Georgia title 🙌🙌🙌

[@amandajohnston2282]

Sounds great Karl , welcome to Canada! Come down to Niagara, Ontario area and do a video, its warmer than Winnipeg. lol Looking forward to new Georgia video, Cheers.

[@lordfesnor7300]

Good luck Karl! Big things!

[@archilablife]

Followed you since day 1. Wow, what a journey has been and looking forward to seeing how this channel evolves.

[@alantinoalantonio]

Cheers, Karl!! 🍻 and yes. We absolutely do mind the ads! Also, "Wheres James?" and "When are you going to North Korea?" There. All good. Godspeed.

[@karlwatsondocs]

Hahaha cheers :)

[@styx814]

Love you videos, Karl .Been watching for years. Georgia is an absolute gem of a country - been twice and absolutely loved it. Winter there can be challenging though and you may find you are limited in what you can do there. Enjoy the trip!

[@wilkowanders]

Thanks Karl, Love your commitment to the high quality of your series and not serving ads on them. Looking forward to seeing some of the new 'helpful' content like budging and places to, like you mentioned, Will be great to see how you plan some of these amazing trips :)

[@elainenelson687]

Congratulations. Wishing you both all the very best 🍾🥂

[@Loser-xr8hf]

Thank you karl, your documentaries are now my escape pod, can't thank you enough ❤❤

[@nathanbaldwinUK]

Good for you Karl doing the right thing regards ads

[@ritabratamitra3746]

Wild stuff over the years Karl! Appreciate keeping the channel the way it is! Godspeed

[@petesworld9829]

Looking forward to watching your upcoming videos! Always a great watch 🌍

[@TheGameKage]

Love to see the itineraries for your tours. We often come back to videos when thinking/planning future trips and as much as we enjoy watching your vids Karl it would be great to have videos that were the 'cheat sheet' version so we could skip to the places/areas/accommodation we know we are visiting/ would like to do.

[@xnightxamex]

really appreciate that you are planning on keeping your documentaries ad free, happy to watch your other videos to support. i'm going backpacking long term soon, i'd really like it if you made a video about your top favorite hostels you've stayed at in different parts of the world!

[@catherinendungu7529]

Can't wait....,

[@AnikKhandakar]

You're my Inspiration ❤❤

[@patriciafleshmann6288]

It sounds as if you are going to have a great year, young man. I look forward to seeing your next adventures.

[@user-fr7zg6tg3u]

Ah, I have sons your age. Many congratulations on your up and coming wedding Karl. I love watching your European adventures in particular and glad there won’t be ads to spoil your vlogs.👍

[@thetravelingirishman4372]

My wife and I are advid travelers and love your videos. We feel like we’re watching a movie. Sounds like your love for travel we’ll finally come full circle for you on the channel. so u can focus on what makes you the most happy and that’s sharing your experiences with others around the globe and meeting new people as well. You definitely have the talent,skill and passion for this. Work on your terms spend time with your new soon to be wife and friends/family. Looking forward to seeing more content regularly this next year. I hoping to one day to join one of your tours and meet and travel with you in person. Cheers to 2024 and the future of your channel. Stay safe brother ❤🤙🤙

[@karlwatsondocs]

Cheers :)

[@DJ-et3yb]

Followed you for years now Karl, just keeps getting better, thank you

[@gonemadinnz]

Love your docs and glad you aren't going to change them. Looking forward to the Midnight Train to Georgia!

[@mikeplace9125]

ROAD TRIP!!

[@debsmann9218]

Awesome 👏 and congrats 🎉 fab news Karl. Gosh you have loads in store for us 😀 V exciting! Will definitely be watching, love your honesty and authenticity 👌 and very excited for more 🙌🏼😃

[@karlwatsondocs]

Thanks 😊

[@TheMostonmandem]

Been watching you for years mate, keep doing your thing pal, congrats on the marriage and hopefully the move goes smoothly!

[@karlwatsondocs]

Thanks! :)

[@flavinhosp]

Good luck .👏

[@EvanMcPherson21]

Karl, love the docs mate, they have inspired me to do many trips. Is your Sri Lanka tour still going ahead? Didn't hear you mention it in the video. Keep up the class work!

[@karlwatsondocs]

Na gonna save Sri Lanka for another year now

[@israelcarter]

Best travel videos on KZbin can't wait to see your next one. Hope your big move to Canada goes well.

[@aliciamacdonald8149]

congrats on your upcoming wedding! you will love Canada, and the Rockies. Looking forward to your videos!

[@mcc2315]

Love the channel! You have inspired so many of my trips! You are really the only one doing detailed and great backpacking trip videos! I literally followed your full route both in India and Central America (with some added stops along the way).

[@melissawhite2867]

Found your channel while looking at Slovenia as we are doing a road trip in September, just want to say ur trips look fantastic I would absolutely love to travel as a job unfortunately this isn’t really an option but will continue to follow your adventures , your love for nature and the outdoors and having fun whilst travelling is really inspiring 🙌🏻

[@adambott2199]

Shit…….. you got one hell of a year mate.. love it! Always respected how you don’t “whore” your main docs out to ads, after all this is your channel and allot of work goes into them. Enjoy the next trip mate.

[@karlwatsondocs]

Cheers buddy :)

[@DCDorseyS]

Thank you for sparing us the Square Space mid rolls!

[@tedshoemaker4102]

Appreciate the stubbornness! Great content! And sure many of us will tune in to all the tidbits with commercials too! Congrats on the forthcoming nuptials!

[@karllatham3757]

The best travel vids on KZbin.

[@stefaniegroning3284]

The quality of your work is outstanding and so inspiring. So many trips I did based on your videos. Over time I lost interest in so many channels, that do similar content like yours, because of all the adverts and product placements. It reduces the joy of watching them. The Idea of the shorter videos with more info material around the trip is great 👍. Keep up doing your great work. It's authentic and great fun to watch and I think that's what you are trying to achieve with it. Thank you so much for it.

[@karlwatsondocs]

Thank you 😊👍

[@dextersfinest175]

What up!!! Good luck to you in your move to Canada and your marriage. I've watched your docs for a few years and you've helped inspire me and my girl to get passports and do a little traveling ourselves. Thank you for the inspiration and if you're ever in Detroit I'll buy you a beer🤣👍👍

[@12345Wozza]

Stay stubborn Karl, respect that decision on the ads

[@hobbitholebooks832]

you can tell the passion in you man. its wild that at 291k you still don't make enough from YT but I can't wait to see more content. you inspire me on my adventures!

[@sashachip]

He probably could make a decent living from it if he pimped it out, like what he says he doesn't want to do. Kudos to him for his integrity.

[@manos_moust]

Lovely stuff as always mate!! We are waiting for a trip of yours in Greece in the future 😉

[@susanglasgow8992]

Love watching your videos. You’re so professional. Keep on doing what you do 😀 xxx

[@adamandlinds]

Awesome man! Love hearing your plan and love the idea of more content! Cheers!

[@karlwatsondocs]

Cheers buddy 😊

[@marysauls6409]

Karl, we’re rooting for you ALWAYS!! Can’t wait to see what you do next homie. We miss you tons! Lots of love, Mary and Erik ❤

[@karlwatsondocs]

Love you guys! Miss ya :)

[@marysauls6409]

@@karlwatsondocs love you Karl!! Send our love to Jamie. We can’t wait to meet her. ♥️

[@junun007]

Glad you're keeping the docs as is, ads can ruin continuity of a video. And I'm all for ads on the other vids, you work hard and deserve to get paid :) Really looking forward to the Midnight train to Georgia vid! Trips with friends are always the best

[@vladlek6042]

Going to join you on one of these tours!

[@trancetreasures671]

Karl I don’t mind the adds, go a head with it pal. Nothing without adds today, this is one of the things that you can make money and move on with new adventures. No money no funny 😄

[@herbertbaz1417]

If anyone deserves to make a living 100 percent from KZbin it's you, buddy. 😊 Thank you for your content.

[@reginalorca3215]

Your videos are art

[@acgarvey1]

Thanks!

[@karlwatsondocs]

Thank you! 😊👍

[@iheadu]

You sir get my subscribe and like for being true to yourself and your audience.

[@arakhneweaving]

What fantastic news of getting married 🎉 Congratulations 🎉

[@indianfyre]

Best of luck with your wedding and all your trips for the year! Please do a Banff meetup! Id love join fellow fans and you there 😀

[@karlwatsondocs]

Might be able to sort one when the Canada tour goes there in September

[@keetamay6435]

Congrats on the upcoming wedding. I'm getting Married in April ! Looking forward to what you're working on this year 😊

[@Ed-jg3ud]

Love the channel, bucket list to someday join one of your adventures!

[@bronwynquinn4477]

Travel tips, advice etc for the traveller especially fairly new travellers..how to deal with things when plans go awry! Would be lovely for the shoertervideos! Stay safe! Thanks a million from Oz

[@bevsterbanton]

I've watched all of your videos, keep doing you ill keep watching. Congratulations on the future wedding bruv.

[@darling4713]

I am most interested in the midnight train to Georgia documentary. Eeeeeee!!!!I want to mimic your journey.

[@ChristheFreelancer]

Also, love the idea of creating videos on the channel just for adverts. The Budgeteers used to do this as well.

[@HarminderBagga]

Oh my God I love the fact that you’re moving Winnipeg. I’m actually from there that’s amazing. Hopefully I’ll see you around. Hope you get to visa application results soon. 😊

[@XMcBethX]

Love that you are keeping the Documentaries clean! Will def watch the other monetized videos too though :) If you feel like grabbing a beer and some cevapcici while in Belgrade(bussing through Serbia) hit me up :D

[@funnybones6131]

I know of some quality KZbinrs and their view in terms of adverts, etc. are consistent with yours. Whatever works best for you bro 👊🏼 you work really hard and yet one of the coolest dude on KZbin. Congrats 🎉 in advance for the wedding and good luck for the move to Canada, that’s a loss to UK.

[@karlwatsondocs]

Cheers :)

[@flameon123]

Bloopers reel from past trips could be fun.

[@wyssdaniel]

Good choice. I wish you all the best for your new chapter. And hope to see you once in Sri Lanka! 😂🫢

[@karlwatsondocs]

Haha hopefully! 😊

[@cindyvanes7577]

Can’t wait for the Antarctica video!

[@TravelingDan20]

Any and all videos will be awesome to watch! Have a great year! I wanted to go to sri lanka so badly but will join one in 2025! All ideas you mentioned are videos id like to see, best hikes, your favorite locations in each countries youve been, travel tips for all countries youve been too, things you would de differently, maybe things that could be harder to do in some countries how to work those things like trains, ell and other transportation , top 10s,25s and the list goes on an on an on lol any idea you will have will be a great idea and ill watch all of it👍🏻

[@AnikKhandakar]

Most genuine and underrated KZbinr 😔😔❤

[@Tanatie]

While I wouldn't mind an ad or two, I really respect your decision 😊

[@paulscott775]

All good news. Your Documentary Videos are undoubtedly the best of the genre on You-Tube. Only Josh Edwards comes close, another video editor by trade. I admire your principles and your decision making. I await both types of Videos with glee. Good luck and best wishes for your Marriage and future life in Canada

[@karlwatsondocs]

Thanks very much 😊

[@hanlens_on_hiatus]

That has always been one of the many things that I loved about your work, it is a form of art not a product created for the purposes of making money or getting clicks. Think this is a great trade off to meet both needs. PS we were on holiday in the Winnipeg area at Christmas time, hope you start supporting the jets.

[@karlwatsondocs]

Thanks! Yep got my Jets toque when I saw them last Christmas 👍

[@hanlens_on_hiatus]

@@karlwatsondocs good man, they are havinga great year! Your videos are an inspiration BTW

[@ASOT5587]

I absolutely love your long form documentaries and personally I think you’re one of the best filmmakers on this platform, as a KZbin Premium subscriber I just want more videos from you in general. I would even subscribe to Patreon if you had one if it helped. Just bring more content. But like others have said, I love how protective you are over your channel unlike 99.9% of KZbin creators who literally just work to get to the point of being monetized and get product placement options, thanks for not doing that. Much love and cheers mate. And congrats on your wedding soon and the big move.

[@karlwatsondocs]

Thanks very much!! Here’s my Patreon if you’re interested patreon.com/karlwatsondocs

[@uniquegeeks1605]

I'm glad you're leaving the documentaries as they are. Adverts would definitely ruin them. Love watching your vids and it's a welcome change to see some prioritise quality over money. Keep up the good work

[@karlwatsondocs]

Cheers 👍

[@SJRPhotographics]

Full time influencer now! 😜 all the best Karl!

[@Karen-tm8lg]

All the best for your wedding and safe travels Karl! I live in Winnipeg. Welcome to Winnipeg!! I would be interested in a fan meetup in Banff, too.

[@karlwatsondocs]

Thanks, looknig foward to settling in Winnipeg :)

[@Steven-qi4gm]

Good stuff. I’ve just booked a US national park road trip based on your Yosemite to Bryce trip. Even staying at some of the same places like the one at Yosemite and Death Valley. Keep up the good work and congratulations on the upcoming wedding 👍🏻

[@karlwatsondocs]

Ah nice have a great road trip! :)

[@paulmorris3613]

At the end of the day you have to enjoy what you are doing, It is daft to knock yourself out to make money if there is an easier way, I enjoy whatever you produce but realise you have to love and into marriage take s a while to Thank you for keeping us posted and I am so looking forward to what comes, May your marriage bring you lots of enjoyment and coping with new situations and relationships.

[@ChristheFreelancer]

‘Getting married and moving to Canada…’ interesting bro. Will definitely watch that video!

[@RichardParker-hc6dn]

Hi Karl, good to see you again. This video was very informative as to what you plan in the future for us. Congratulations on your marriage soon. Can't wait for this upcoming season. 🦵🤓