No rent, no car, no address— just entirely nomadic and fleeing the shadow government since June 2026.
Constant travel is incredibly taxing. I’m autistic, I don’t like change and I think travel is overrated. And yet here I am. I’ve had to adapt very quickly to balancing a lifestyle I did not ask for, while still providing the level of presence and intensity necessary for what I do.
Below is a running list of travel tips, tricks, and found luxuries to keep me sane and keep me locked into my gifts.
1. Get the membership
Stack the reward. I’m bad at math and even I can figure this out.
Founders Card-
Even their trial membership has access to discounts of car rentals, long term and luxury stays, and tech solutions like Apple discounts and virtual assistant apps. And, if you become a paid member, you automatically get access to higher membership tiers with airlines and hotel collections. Being that I’m literally living out of hotels, rewards points and stays add up exponentially.
Their complementary tier is also incredible, I’ve used it to book car rentals, shipping, book stays, I even have a year of Notion free of charge. Once you start using a membership, the benefits build onto one another.
Rakuten-
This is completely free and everyone with internet access would benefit from this site. Serious. If I’m not booking with my hotel membership, I’m booking here. Using their browser extension, you can cash back booking from site like Expedia, Vrbo, Booking, and Hotels.com. I love this site because the cashback is just deposited start into my paypal account.
Travel aside, they have cash back for everything from contacts, to korean skin care. My dude… this site is incroyable. You’re literally getting cash back on things you’d already spending money on. LIterally.
SHRTLST-
I tend to book last minute. Like, last last minute. Like 8pm, and I don’t know where I’m sleeping that night. I’ve used this site, and gotten a luxury stay, literally half the cost of it’s best member price. We’re talking, room with a view of the water and the city, and the nicested soft-lighting I’ve come across yet in my travels. Listen, I cannot be bothered to change my ways when there short-cuts like this to accommodate my lack of foresight. I will in fact be paying the annual fee for this bc I’ve already made it back in divides before paying a cent.
2. Think outside of the box
Listen- put that big brain to the test and try something new (this is me, directed at me).
Valet Parking-
I regularly use valet parking for places I’m not even staying and have no business being. Not a joke.
Because:
1. The amount of time I will waste looking for parking
2. The fees I incur because I don’t pay for parking to begin with
3. The amount of time I spending looking for the darn thing hours later
4. I don’t exactly have a great track record as my own vehicle was stolen very recently
All of this time and mental space, yea- the $17 to park the rental (which almost always has all of my belonging in it also) is more than worth it to me while I dip into a coffee shop to get some work done, ie slam another espresso while waiting for am stimulant medication to kick in so I can forget to blink and ponder what to tell border agents the next time I’m asked what I do for a living.
Hotels > Coffee shop
I do get sick of the overstimulation of coffee shops. I’m not around long enough to test run a bunch of local places before finding one that isn’t too loud, overcrowded, or where the vibe is just off.
But hotel lobbies, like the big nice ones, they’re quiet, spacious, and most importantly, extremely predictable. Embassy suites in Arkansas is gonna be about identical to the one in Montreal. Hotel lobbies rarely crowded or overstimulated, and most have restaurants, cafes, water bottle filling stations, bathrooms, some even have meeting rooms to rent. Literally all the things you could need without the overwhelming, overstimulating stress of trying to work in a public place. Perfect.
Hotel= gym + sauna + nap
Resort Pass- I bet you didn’t know this was a thing, because I did not. You can use hotel rooms for their gym, sauna, spa, or just to take meeting or even nap. I have a few of these booked marked for upcoming destinations, where I foresee myself getting stuck in traffic and instead can be working out, taking a meeting or resting, or making a pitstop, as I’m passing through cities and I have time to kill before my next reservation. Brilliant.
