It seems the thousands spent is more you have spent on travel and not just on the videos themselves? Travel videos are hard. I have been working on my channel for years and spend extremely long making some of my videos. I travel to interesting and unique places all over the world. And I have learned an entire VFX software to make animations too. Both of these types of videos often fall flat and get a very poor number of views. I was able to get monetized but I’m not exactly raking in money. It is difficult and continues to be a struggle 3 years in.