Travel14 min read
The real economics of taking a Uttarakhand homestay online
OTAs make you visible. Your own website makes you profitable. Here's the data — the real costs, the gains, and the honest downsides nobody mentions.
Road trips, places, and the slow pleasure of getting there by car.
OTAs make you visible. Your own website makes you profitable. Here's the data — the real costs, the gains, and the honest downsides nobody mentions.
My wife Roma and I are renovating our ancestral property in Kunja, Almora into a small homestay — to keep the old place alive and running. Notes from the work, in a life mostly made of software.
Flights get you there; road trips let you arrive. A few notes on why the best part of any journey, for me, is the getting there — by car.