Travel Research Before You Book: The 7 Tabs I Open Every Time
An analytical guide to the seven tabs opened before booking travel, covering pricing, transit, geography, regulation, flexibility, and system-level risk.
The Solo-Friendly Itinerary Template I Use for Any City
An analytical look at the solo-friendly itinerary template I use to understand any city through pricing, infrastructure, regulation, and risk. A framework for reading travel systems before planning activities.
A Practical Checklist for Vetting Hotels, Tours, and “Top 10” Lists
A practical, systems-focused checklist for vetting hotels, tours, and “Top 10” travel lists. Learn how incentives, fees, platforms, and operational constraints shape recommendations, and how to reduce cost, risk, and uncertainty.
The “Trip Planning Stack”: A Simple Workflow That Prevents Bad Decisions
An analytical look at the trip planning stack, a layered workflow that explains how structural constraints, access, pricing, and risk shape travel decisions and why most planning failures are predictable.
The "Decision Pages" I Think Every Travel Site Should Have
A travel intelligence guide to the “decision pages” every travel site should include, from flight pricing and seasonality to borders, safety risk, and infrastructure, so travelers can make realistic, high-quality decisions under real constraints.
A Simple Model for Turning Travel Questions Into Dataset Fields
An analytical look at how common travel questions map to underlying data fields, revealing the systems, constraints, and tradeoffs that shape travel decisions beyond destinations.
