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Most travel content assumes you’re chasing luxury or gaming the system — resort tours you’ll never book or credit card schemes that require a PhD in points optimization.

This site is for people with jobs, budgets, and flights to catch. People who travel because they have to and those that want to enjoy travel. 

I travel constantly for work — extended stays, rotating cities every few months. That rhythm taught me something different than frequent flyers learn: how to build routines, how to notice what’s uniquely broken here—and what’s broken on purpose, and how to make unfamiliar places feel livable faster.

The repetition isn’t in the destinations. It’s in the process. Arrive somewhere new, figure out what works, build temporary infrastructure, then pack it up and do it again.

This page helps you find what’s useful right now. Skip what doesn’t apply and make travel easier.

Most hotel advice is either luxury fluff or points-nerd gymnastics. This pillar is for real-world stays—what actually matters, what’s broken, and what’s worth it.

Travel doesn’t need to be aspirational to be good. This pillar is for the friction—planning, fatigue, money, logistics, and the fixes that make trips smoother.

For people who return to the same places, routines matter. This pillar covers repeat travel—systems, habits, what to pack, and how to make “again” feel better than “new.”

No pep talks. No “travel hacks”. Just patterns that hold up under repetition.
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