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What do you mean by "part time"? You are either "all in or all out" with content sites.

What you are actually trying to do is document another person's travels and travel experiences. If this is your premise for a travel related site, then you need to embrace that dynamic and document many experiences of many travelers. Documenting the travels of a single person is too limiting.

It seems to me, from all you propose, that you have no experience with a content site.

This is how you start your conversation, which pretty much means you have not established a plan. The plan is where you need to start. You must outline, in a notebook (MS Office, et al), all of the aspects from your initial thoughts to all of the goals and action steps necessary to do this. Travel related content sites are highly competitive, but when done correctly are very lucrative.

Per Momondo:

Momondo is a travel fare metasearch engine and aggregator owned by KAYAK. Similar to KAYAK, Momondo searches and displays cheap fares for tickets, stays, car rentals, and experiences.

You have the potential to earn US$0.65 per click on desktops and tablets and US$0.45 per click on mobile searches. Right now, the affiliate product is available for flights only. Also, reach out to the brand directly for additional support and exclusive deals if you have more than 200,000 unique site visitors a month.

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This is not a true "Affiliate Program", though it is an approved affiliate partner (like an aff network) that organizes affiliates, manages their conversions, takes a piece, and then pays you a bit of chump change. I am in the travel niche. I am affiliate in many travel related affiliate programs including private air charter, private yacht charter, destination packages, etc. Mondo is nothing more than a form of smartlink that can result in what we call penny commissions. Commissions typically under a dollar. That is not a profitable means by which to monetize a travel site. I don't have a single affiliate link on my travel and charter sites that earn less than $50 and most are in the hundreds, with some in the thousands.

If you plan on monetizing a travel site, I think you have to design your specific travel niche and then build consistently updated content that builds an audience from that niche. you seem to want to build an audience for a specific link provider, Momondo. This is just not consistent with a successful niche model. Your site must be aimed at a specific niche, and then you select the offers to present them.