I stopped booking Airbnb for long stays. Now I use Booking for almost everything, and the reason is not price.
Inventory. Roughly 28 million properties against 10 million. On a two-month stay in one city, that gap decides whether I get a great place with two work spots for me
John Ho, my recent podcast guest, used to choose destinations the way everyone does. Paris, for the Louvre. Egypt for the pyramids.
Now he decided by whom he knows there. Next year it is India, because he trusts a coliving owner three hours from Goa.
Landmark tourism became
Eight weeks in Chiang Mai, mid-June to mid-August. Here's what worked, what didn't, and the one thing I'd check before booking a flight there.
First, the calendar. The burning season runs late January to mid-April, and air pollution hits.
Then the visa: we got a 60 days
At 19, Ryan Li sold his car, gave up his apartment, and flew to Japan for three months.
Two weeks before his flight home, he found three job ads in a newspaper. He canceled two interviews and bet everything on the one closest to the airport.
That's how his 20-year Asian journey