Vision

I live much of my life in transit—airports, hospitals, and hotel rooms that blur into one another. My work as a healthcare consultant keeps me on the road, but it also gives me a front-row seat to how hospitality rises and falters in real time. What began as casual notes over lobby coffee has become Unaccompanied Miner: a place to dig into what travel really feels like today.

This isn’t a scrapbook of perfect trips or staged smiles. It’s a record of what works, what doesn’t, and what matters when you’re living out of a suitcase. Sometimes that means asking tough questions about where the industry is headed. Sometimes it’s a review of a hotel that surprised me, or a guide to a neighborhood that woke me up before the jet lag did. Always it’s about telling the truth—warm where it should be, sharp where it has to be.

Here you’ll find essays that wrestle with the state of hospitality, hotel reviews written without fluff, destination spotlights shaped by real experience, and practical tips for travelers who need both candor and comfort—along with ways to uncover joy in the journey while stretching rewards farther than you thought possible.

I write as one traveler, unaccompanied, but not alone. Anyone who has ever searched for a good cup of coffee in a strange city, or wondered if loyalty points really mean loyalty, will recognize something here.